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At the EU Community of Practice on Peace Mediation 2026, Geneva Call shared how principled engagement with armed groups can prevent violence, uphold humanitarian norms and protect civilians.
#CivilianProtection
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El ministro Iván Cancino sostuvo una reunión con el director de la Fundación Geneva Call para dialogar sobre cooperación en política criminal, paz, protección de la población civil y fortalecimiento de respuestas institucionales frente a la violencia que afecta los territorios.🧵
Children should never pay the price of war. At Liechtenstein’s Philanthropy Platform, Geneva Call championed protecting civilians and children in armed conflict. Read more. 👉 bit.ly/4seGuSh
Photos: Daniel Schwendener
What happens when traditional and humanitarian diplomacy work together? Our DG @DeletrozAlain told @LaChambreBE how a visit to #Goma by @hadjalahbib led the M23 to acknowledge #sexualviolence for the first time, opening the way for our MoU with the group.
#EU #Belgium
On the occasion of #PAW2026, Geneva Call met Commissioner @hadjalahbib to discuss aid worker protection, drone threats and the role of humanitarian diplomacy. #GenevaCall #ProtectAidWorkers
Colombia is a long way from Belgium. Its conflict isn’t. Our Country Director Giuliano Perseu told @LaChambreBE last week that Colombian armed groups are behind almost all the cocaine entering Antwerp, and that the time to prevent crises is now.
#IHL #EU #Colombia #Belgium
#GPF26 closes today. Our contribution focused on what humanitarian dialogue brings to peace. Our core work is humanitarian: we talk with armed groups about how they can better protect civilians caught in armed conflict. That dialogue is often where the ground for peace is laid.
📣 Join us this week at the Geneva Peace Forum:
📍 13 Oct, 09:00 CEST: @DeletrozAlain on linking arms control and peace processes.
📍 14 Oct, 15:00 CEST: Sandra Krähenmann on water for peace.
👉 Registration required: genevapeaceforum.ch/en/gpf-2…
#GPF2026 #HumanitarianDiplomacy
"Influencing the behaviour of those who commit this violence means intervening upstream, before the need arises." Dr Sandra Krähenmann spoke at the Belgian Parliament on Wednesday on Geneva Call's work with armed groups.
#IHL #ProtectionOfCivilians #Belgium #EU
UNGA81 closes in New York today, marking an important week of meetings for Geneva Call.
Our commitment remains unchanged: working with partners to protect civilians and advance respect for international humanitarian law in armed conflict.
🇸🇩 Sudan: SLM/A-TC commits to unobstructed aid access, protecting aid workers and a ban on starvation as a method of warfare.
#IHL #CivilianProtection #Sudan
Children feel it first when access to food, water, healthcare and schooling is cut off in conflicts. Geneva Call was invited by @OnlineCHS_en & @save_children to ask a practical question: can child protection open a door with an armed group when nothing else does? Often, it does.
In Riyadh this week, Geneva Call met @KSRelief to advance civilian protection and humanitarian diplomacy. We discussed leaving no one behind and what KSrelief describes as “unrestricted humanity”. Grateful to @SwissEmbassyKSA for their continued partnership.
🧵 The tools of modern #warfare are no longer held only by states. Neither, increasingly, is the power to decide whether civilians are protected. On 2 Sept, our DG @DeletrozAlain addressed the @Europarl_EN's Committee on Security and Defence @EP_Defence.
These are security trends as much as humanitarian ones. @DeletrozAlain's & Hameed's message to the committee: take #armedgroups seriously in #EU conflict analysis & security planning, & make civilian protection a design requirement, not an afterthought.
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The session was followed by a Q&A during which MEPs who attended showed interest and constructive engagement. Here MEP @svenmikser poses a question about new technologies such as #AI and remotely controlled systems deployed in #warfare.
Our Director General Alain Délétroz and Director of Operations Atif Hameed will speak before the European Parliament's Committee on Security and Defence on September 2, focusing on Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, the Sahel and Sudan. Watch live at 9.15 AM CEST.
👉bit.ly/45YpVQc
What does it mean to defend the laws of war when the world seems to believe in them less and less?
In a portrait published by Swissinfo, DG Alain Délétroz reflects on almost a decade at the heart of Geneva Call’s work.
Read the full article (in French).
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