A report from two peer exchange meetings co-convened by PAX and WILPF in February and March bringing together 20 global and national peacebuilding organisations working to incorporate a focus on men and masculinities. With those organisations we developed preliminary plans for ongoing joint advocacy. To inform this meeting, PAX and WILPF conducted and analysed an online survey with peacebuilding organisations already working on masculinities or interest in doing so to understand their focus, priorities, and opportunities for collaboration. The results are discussed in the report.
Fifty-one per cent of the Dutch think there is apartheid in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories. This finding comes from a Dutch survey carried out by I&O Research for the peace organisation PAX. Only six per cent disagree. The research shows that most Dutch people hold Israel and Hamas responsible for the persistence of the conflict, are opposed to the construction and expansion of illegal Israeli settlements and expect the Dutch government to take action accordingly.
Aker BP stands accused of enabling Lundin Energy’s shareholders to get away with war crimes. A group of South Sudanese and European organizations have now formally complained with the Norwegian National Contact Point (NCP) that Aker’s deal with Lundin breaches its duties under the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises that both Norway and Aker BP have committed to.
PAX director Anna Timmerman will be leaving the organisation on 1 September 2022. Timmerman has been the General Director of PAX since 2020.
Peace activist Mient Jan Faber died today, 15 May 2022. As secretary of the Interchurch Peace Council (Interkerkelijk Vredesberaad, IKV), he became famous for organising large demonstrations against nuclear weapons in the 1980s. At that time, he also collaborated intensively with human rights activists in communist Warsaw Pact countries. After the end of the Cold War, he worked with victims of war violence and dictatorships.
Impunity Watch and PAX supported the efforts of a team of Palestinian-Syrian researchers to collect hours of first-hand testimony of the experiences of Palestinian Syrians from Yarmouk Camp, from its establishment in 1948 to the battles and sieges of the Syrian conflict post-2011, its occupation by ISIS and finally its re-occupation by the Syrian regime and near-emptying of its residents who had lived there for generations.
In 2015, the anti-ISIS coalition bombed a munitions factory in the middle of the city of Hawija (Iraq). In the factory were so many explosives stored that the explosion destroyed a neighbourhood. Researchers from the Iraqi NGO Al-Ghad, Dutch peace organisation PAX and Utrecht University have mapped out the consequences of the attack, and have concluded that, seven years later, the attack still has an enormous impact. And that, based on lessons learned from previous conflicts, failure to acknowledge the civilian suffering can create a fertile ground for new terrorist groups.
This week, states, international organisations and civil society groups are meeting in Geneva to negotiate an international political declaration to better protect civilians from the use of explosive weapons. Worldwide, 9 out of 10 casualties are civilians when these weapons are used in towns and cities.
From the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine PAX has been monitoring the impact of the violence on civilians and their environment. We monitor media and social media reports, and use geolocation and satellite images for verification.
Women, girls, and gender minorities are uniquely and disproportionately affected by the damaging environmental impacts of conflict, while lacking and demanding access to shape the necessary decision-making in environmental governance and peacebuilding structures. Nonetheless, women activists are fashioning innovative ways to turn around the negative impacts of conflict linked-environmental damage and climate risks impacting their […]
more resultresults