March2013
Welcome to the Marchemail update of the Conflict Community of Practice in CARE. The group is focused on sharing information among staff working in conflict affected states using a conflict sensitivity approach and working on conflict, by engaging in peacebuilding within the development programming of CARE. This month’s edition features a focus on 1325 and violence against women, in both the featured resource which explores how 1325 can be better implemented in South Sudan and Burundi and in the advocacy work of CARE around the UN Commission on the Status of Women. A New edition of the Journal of Peacebuilding and Development explore the conceptual links between the sectors, while also specifying concrete asks for integrating peace into the post 2015 agenda. This is the last edition before our workshop March 18-21, where land conflict will be explored among other themes. Please continue to share lessons learned, documents and ideas. Warm regards, Paul-André.
•Featured Resource; • CCP and Other Conflict News; • Conflict Advocacy News; • Document/Resource Sharing
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Featured Resource:Reports on Operationalising 1325 in Burundi and South Sudan – Institute of Quiet Diplomacy Download

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Help for users of the platform, including links to training videos and useful documents / The Institute of Quiet Diplomacy has produced two reports advising interested parties on how to enhance the implementation on UN SCRes 1325 in Burundi and South Sudan. CARE Burundi supported the research in their country. An element of great value is how the reports focus on actions within specific areas, including female legislators in government, CSOs and 1325 in relation to land conflict and land dispute mechanisms. Other areas include Security and Justice sector reform, Agricultural development, and budgetary support to the Ministry of Gender. These reports are great starting points for considering concrete actions for the mainstreaming of 1325 and gender equality issues in a wide range of conflict, peace and security areas. The reports are available on the wiki here.

CCP and other Conflict News

  • The CCP workshop is taking place next week (March 18-21) in Sri Lanka. The final list of sessions are:
  1. Introduction – refresher on key concepts including Do No Harm
  2. Land conflict – analysis approaches,
  3. Land conflict - - learning from Sri Lanka
  4. Land conflict – conflict sensitivity risks and approaches
  5. Land conflict – case studies from around CARE
  6. Resilience and Conflict – what are the overlaps?
  7. Governance and Peacebuilding – refresher on Governance Programming Framework and the service delivery approach
  8. Governance and Peacebuilding – lessons from the CINL Learning Trajectory
  9. Governance and Peacebuilding – the opportunities and limitations of Scorecards in fragile states
  10. Conflict Sensitivity – Monitoring and Evaluation approaches
  11. Conflict Sensitivity and Accountability – How do they complement each other?
  12. Security Sector and Justice Reform in Peacebuilding – What does CARE do?
  13. What next for the Conflict Community of Practice?
  • A report will be circulated in a future edition of the monthly update, and all presentations will be put on the wiki for reference. For those who could not come this time but would like to attend in the future, please let me know so I can make a note.

Conflict Advocacy News

  • Howard (CIUK) and Kate (CARE USA) are in New York spearheading CARE’s advocacy on the UN Commission on the Status of Women.There are high stakes in the current CSW negotiations at UN Headquarters in New York. If the CSW talks were to collapse for a second year running, this would be a catastrophe for women’s rights in general, and the fight against VAWG specifically. CARE International is supporting a delegation of women’s rights activists - staff and partners - from Egypt, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Uganda, Zambia, Kenya and India to bring voices and best practices from the grassroots level into the CSW process. Discussions began on March 4 and will run until Friday. A press release outlining the importance of the event, and CARE’s push for a strong agreement that protects the rights of women, is available here.
  • Still in New York - the link between violence against women, and war and militarism is being contested by some countries, wanting references to UN SCRes 1325 and 1820 removed. Others passionately disagree stating that there can never be sustainable peace while violence against women persists. For more see this article:CARE International has been pretty much alone in pushing for incorporation of this agenda into the CSW Agreed Conclusions, but is facing opposition from countries that oppose security council resolutions per se, worry about the role of the ICC in tackling impunity on VAWG in conflict, or want to downplay the VAWG in the political instability of the middle east. For more please contact Howard in New York ()

Document/Resource Sharing(please sign-in to the wiki for the links to work)

We are subscribed to the Journal of Peacebuilding and Development.
The username is: ConflictCCP; Password: CCP2012 /
  • There is a new edition of the Journal of Peacebuilding and Development, focused on programming that includes both peace and development goals. Attached to this email is the table of contents – to access it – please use the login and password to the left. Three highlights include:
  • A) An essay by Roger Mac Ginty and Gurchathen Sanghera pointing to a need to focus on community, bottom up approaches and a wider group of actors for peacebuilding, rather than taking an institution and state centric approach.
  • B) A case study from East Timor’s engagement with the New Deal. CARE has been pushing for civil society engagement in the New Deal in South Sudan.
  • C) A joint statement by CSOs and NGOs on a bringing peace into the post 2015 MDG framework.
  • The BOND group of UK NGOs feeding into the post 2015 frameworks on Disaster Risk Reduction have produced a paper that lists conflict and state fragility as human derived risks alongside other natural disaster risks that need to be considered when building community resilience. The paper argues that the drivers of conflict are often key underlying causes of disaster vulnerability. This builds on a growing consensus that peacebuilding is one approach for reducing the exposure of a community to conflict, as well as building its adaptive capacity to respond to new shocks. The paper will be used for extensive advocacy over the coming months and is available here.

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