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CONFLICT PREVENTION PROGRAM (CPP)CIVILIAN PROTECTION COMPONENT (CPC) PROGRAM
Consultations During Preparatory Phase
• Leaderships of Key Parties and ground commanders.
• Civil Society Organizations working for Peace in Mindanao.
• Local Government Units.
• Focus Group Discussions with Community leaders and Civilians Living in Conflict Prone areas.
• International Actors / Groups
Mandate NP P• To enhance the scope and quality of locally based
people’s organisations and peace/human rights advocates.
• To reduce the incidence of violence in the vicinity of NP field sites through means of unarmed international civilian peacekeeping and thereby aiding in the maintenance of the ceasefire(s).
• To support human rights reporting mechanisms in remote conflict areas and assist/connect local and international advocacy groups that work for peace with justice by responding to people’s grievances.
• To localise grassroots conflicts so that they are resolved through dialogue at the lowest level and do not snowball into larger crises.
Our approach
• To stay in contact and talk to all parties
• Cooperation with international organisations and missions and with INGOs
• Emergency Response Network
• Contacts to countries investing in the peace process
• Be known to community and be trusted by them.
NP working principles
• Nonviolence: NP representatives will use only nonviolent means and strategies in all circumstances.
• Non-partisanship: NP will not take any side in the conflict nor make its services available to one party over another.
• Non-interference: NP comes at the invitation of local and national level CSOs, and undertakes activities under their guidance. NP will not undertake to influence outcomes of the conflict except to assure that they are not violent.
• Mutual respect: NP strives not to undermine the reputation of any person or group, rather to understand and report causes and needs while opposing violence itself.
• Permission: NP seeks goodwill and acceptance from all parties.
Advisory Council and its RoleTo enhance the levels of accountability, legitimacy, acceptance
and involve NP Partners in NP P activities, Advisory Board was Established before officially starting the project
• to give advise on plans and strategies
• to get feed-back on actual activity
• consultative body
• to act as a conferential or collegial body
• to recommend new issues and areas to cover.
• to review activities
• to operate on the basis of consensus in giving recommendations
• to give mutual moral support
GRP – MNLF Peace Process
• Both Parties signed the first Tripoli Agreement in 1976.
• Signed the Final Peace Agreement in 1996.
• Partial implementation of the FPA and frustrations raised by Mainstream MNLF group led by Misuari.
• Division within MNLF. Main stream MNLF and Council of 15 led by Cotabato Mayor.
• Tripartitie talks between GRP-factions of MNLF and OIC.
GRP - MILF Peace Process • MILF Officially declared armed struggled in 1984.
• GRP & MILF Entered into Peace talks in 1997 and signed the comprehensive Cessation of Hostilities Agreement in 2003.
• On August 05, 2008, Peace Talks suspended between GRP & MILF on Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain.
• Outbreak of Armed HostilitiesfromAugust 2008.
• Ceasefire Mechanism Structures.
• SOMO & SOMA. Resumption of Peace Talks
• Other key stakeholders like Provincial Governors, Politicians, Illaga(Vigilante groups).
Conflict Prevention Program - CPPFocuses on structures, specifically through:
1) Community Based Human Rights
2) Early Warning Early Response
3) Dialogue
Community Based HR - CPP
Field SiteNo. Trained(March 2009-January 2011)
Maguindanao 147
North Cotabato 156
Lanao del Sur 74
Lanao del Norte 63
Early Warning Early Response - CPPRevitalizing pre-existing structures at the community-level and setting up new structures where non-existant, with local partners
Field Site No. Trained(March 2009-January 2011)
Maguindanao 153
North Cotabato 212
Lanao del Sur 47
Lanao del Norte 53
Local structures engaged/ created or strengthened:
Barangay Disaster Coordinating Council(s):
in every barangay mandated by law but often latent
Early Warning Network (LDS)
Ranaw Election Watch (LDS) - VHF Radio Monitoring
MMI Early Warning Network (Maguindanao)
Dialogue -CPP
1) Open Space Forum
Talking about “safe and secure communities”
Carried out in 4 field sites with
over 380 participants(December 2010 - January 2011)
2) Dialogue between religious communities
Field Site MaguindanaoNorth
CotabatoLanao del Sur
Lanao del Norte
No Participants(March 2009-January 2011)
80 142 22 38
Emerging of the CPC Program
• May 2007: NP starts Unarmed Civilian Peacekeeping Program in Mindanao
• October 2009: GRP and MILF sign an agreement that the mandate of the IMT will be expanded to include the protection of civilians -Civilian Protection Component (CPC)
• December 2009: GRP and MILF invited NP as a member of the CPC as the only international organization
• October 2010: - Launch of the CPC in Cotabato City- NP-CPC employment of additional 9 ICPMs and 6NCPMs
• July 2010: NP-CPC employment of 7 ICPMs and 6 NCPMs
IMT- CPC Structure
International MonitoringTeam
SecurityHumanitarian
Rehabilitation andDevelopment
Socio economicassistance
Civilian Protection
Nonviolent Peaceforce(NP)
Mindanao Peoples Causas(MPC)
Mindanao Human RightsAction Center (MinHRAC
Moslem Organization ofGovernment Officials andProfessionals (MOGOP)
CPC Terms of ReferencesCPC - NP
CPC-NP
„To establish a functioning system and effective mechansism forMonitoring, verifying, and reporting of the compliance and non-compliance of the parties to their commitments under international and national humanitarian laws and human rights laws to take constant care to protect the civilian population and civilian properties against dangers arising in armed confict areas“
To monitor the safety and security of civilian communitites in conflict areas
To monitor and ensure that both parties respect the sactity of worship namely mosques, churches and religious places and social institutions including schools, madaris, hospitals and all places of civilian nature
To monitor the needs of the IDPs and the delivery of relief and rehabilitation support efforts in conflict affected areas in Mindanao
To strengthen ownership of the peace process by supporting and empowering communities to handle conflicts at the grassroot level
To monitor acts of violence against civilians in conflict affected areas
To strengthen the linkages and information-sharing between IMT and the Peace Penals
Manila Liaison Office- 4 int. staff-3 nat. staff -2 consultants
Jolo/ Sulu1 national
Cotabato Main Office-7 int. staff -12 nat. staff
Datu Piang/ Maguindanao5 int., 4 nat., 1 driver
General Santos/ South Cotabato, Sarangani
3 int., 1 nat., 1 driver
Pikit/ North Cotabato5 int, 4 nat., 1 driver
Iligan/ Lanao Del Norte-3 int, 3 nat, 1 driver
Marawi/ Lanao Del Sur3 int , 3 nat, 1 driver
ZamboangaField site to open in
2011
NP Presence in Mindanao
Laimitan/ Basilan1 national
Ipil, Zamboanga-Sibugay
Field site to open 2011Malabang/ Lanao Del
SurField site to open 2011
(Source: National Statistical Coordination Board, 2007)
• 105,000-126,000 IDPs (IDMC est. NOV 2010)• 8,290,091 NP indirct beneficiaries (excl. mobile coverage)• 10 NP offices • NP presence in 16 provinces(10 permanent, 6 mobile)• Quick response team I and II: 8 int. staff
Sulu-19 municipalities- 410 barangays- Population: 849,670
Lanao Del Sur-39 municipalities- 1 city- 681 barangays- Population: 1,138,544
North Cotabato-17 municiplities- 1 city- 543 barangays- Population: 1,121,974
Lanao Del Norte-22 municipalities- 1 city- 506 barangays- Population: 538,283
Sarangani-7 municipalities- 140 barangays- Population: 475,514
South Cotabato-10 municipalities- 2 cities- 225 barangays- Population: 767,254
Maguindanao-36 municipalities- 506 barangays- Population: 1,273,715
CotabatoCity
-1 city- 37 barangays- Population: 259,153
Z-Del Sur-26 municipalities- 1 city- 681 barangays-- Population: 914,278
Z- Sibugay- 16 municipalities- 389 barangays- Population: 564,186
Basilan-11 municipalities- 1 city-210 barangays- Population: 408,520
Selected achievements: The first six months
• 6 monthly reports about the compliance and non-compliance of the parties (AFP and MILF) to their commitments under international and national humanitarian laws and human rights laws were submitted from NP-CPC to the IMT
• NP-CPC field teams verified and reported 75 incidences of violence against civilians in Mindanao to the IMT, whereupon 16 cases were confirmed and 13 election related violence incidences were confirmed
• NP-CPC conducted 23 coordination meetings with national CPC members
• NP-CPC undertook 107 monitoring activities in regard to the protection of the civilian population and civilian property in Mindanao
Cooperation and support to the national CPC members
• NP-CPC drafted the CPC- Terms of References, later signed by GRP and MILF
• NP-CPC drafted initial Operational Guidelines
• NP-CPC conducted 23 meetings with national CPC members and provided venues, logistical and technical support in this regard
Plans for 2011: • 2 day planning meeting of all CPC members in January
• Provision of training to national CPC members on International Law, monitoring, verification and reporting
• Establishment of the CPC Secretariat
• Strengthening and harmonization of the overall CPC reporting system to IMT and finalizing the Operational Guidelines
• Creation of joint protection sites
• Set-up of 3 additional NP-CPC offices
NP-CPC staff
• NCPMs from all over Mindanao, from all religions, ethnicities and background; they have the local knowledge
• ICPMs from 15 different countries, representing the eye of the world in Mindanao
• NCPMs and ICPMs were trained together, they work together, they live together, they laugh and cry together
NP-CPC monitors the safety and security of civiliancommunitites in conflict areas and provides proactivepresence
NP staff lives within the conflict affected communities
NP is accepted by the civilian communities in Mindanao
NP-CPC monitors, verifies and reports on violations of civilians, for instance destroyed homes, which is one cause for internal displacement
NP-CPC monitors, verifies and reports on the situation of women and children affected by conflict (here: IDPs)
NP closely cooperates with local partners
NP has access to the AFP
NP has access to the MILF
NP-CPC works closely with the GRP-MILF Peace Penals
NP-CPC staff are experienced and committed to their work, life and work is a unity for them
Sudan: Developing Civilian
Engagement for the Prevention of Violence in Sudan
Reducing Violence and Increasing Security Creates Space for
:
ReconciliationDevelopment
Social Cohesion
Current NPSD Project Areas
• Capacity Building: creating Capacity for Self-Sustaining Unarmed Civilian Peacekeeping for Vulnerable Communities
• Proactive Protective Presence: Deterring Violence, Increasing Security and creating Safe Space for Civilians
• Child Protection: Instrument for Safe Return, Rehabilitation and Reintegration
• Conflict Early Warning/Early Response: Formalized and coordinated CEWER program
Capacity Building
The goal of the project is to create a
sustainable reduction in violence and
improvement in security in vulnerable
areas for vulnerable populations by
empowering them to take a proactive
role in their safety.
Proactive Protective Presence
To provide proactive, protective presence to deter the threat of immediate violence, to develop and implement sustainable risk reduction strategies including Early Warning/Early Response mechanisms.
Decision Makers International
Pressure
Perpetrator
Targeted Civilians
Proactive Presence• Targets entire chain• Reveals Responsibilities• Strengthens international commitment
Consequences of Actions
Actions with Unacceptable Consequences
Actions with Unacceptable Consequences
Actions with Acceptable Consequences (impunity)
Affect of Protective Presence
Actions with Acceptable
Consequences (impunity)
Keeping Children & Youth Safe
Supporting Reintegration/Return
• Finding Safe Spaces for Children/Youth at Risk
• Protection from Recruitment/Abduction
• Preparing Community for Increasing Safety and Security of Children/Youth
• Creation of CP Monitoring Committees
Conflict Early Warning/Early Response
• Coordinated collection of CEWER indicators
• Sudanese ownership of process
• Increased focus on response to ensure immediate protection
• 10 state roll-out
Key Achievements – First 6 months• De-escalation of tensions between pastoralists and
agriculturalists
• Establishment of Peace Committees in 4 communities
• Return to school in 2 communities as a result of violence prevention work
• Requested to act as advisor to governor for violence reduction and nonviolent conflict resolution
• Have received requests to expand into 7 more states
Plans for 2011
• 2 new child protection teams (Nzara and Juba)
• Expansion of CEWER into Northern Bahr el Ghazal and Unity State
• Mobile team deployment Lakes State
• Deployment of 3 -5 civilian protection teams to north-south border area “hot spots”
• Implementation of GBV specific protection/prevention programming
Current
Programming
Phase 1
Expansion
Phase 3
Expansion
Phase 4 Expansion