The Dallaire Institute for Children, Peace and Security (Dallaire Institute for Children, Peace and Security) Updates

We, the undersigned organisations, appeal to all UN member states to secure an immediate ceasefire across Gaza, Lebanon, Israel and the region, and to end the impunity that has allowed atrocities by...

Secretary-General António Guterres United Nations Headquarters S-3800 New York, NY 10017 Re: 2024 Annual Report on Children and Armed Conflict Dear Mr. Secretary-General, We are writing regarding...

An open call to all UN Member States to stop fuelling the crisis in Gaza and avert further humanitarian catastrophe and loss of civilian life. We, the undersigned organisations, call on all States to...

Dear SG Guterres, We are alarmed by the escalation of hostilities in Israel and Gaza, and its unconscionable toll on Israeli and Palestinian children. As you noted on November 6, Gaza is becoming a...

June 22, 2020 – In an open letter to Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, 24 nongovernmental organizations, including Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict, express their disappointment with the...

Dear Mr. Secretary-General, We are writing regarding your annual report on children and armed conflict and its annexes. As a diverse group of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) working on...

by Diana Quick ChildFund Alliance, together with 23 other civil society organizations, wrote an open letter regarding the situation of children in Yemen to UN Secretary-General António Guterres,...

An Open Letter to UN Secretary-General António Guterres As organizations working to protect the rights of children in armed conflict, we are dismayed by your reported decision to “freeze” any new...

(March 28, 2017 – Buenos Aires) The Second International Conference on Safe Schools opening in Buenos Aires today will contribute to better safeguarding education in war-zones, said the Global...

Secretary-General’s De-Listing Opens Door to Political Manipulation (New York) – The United Nations secretary-general should immediately return the Saudi-led coalition to his “list of shame” for...

We are living in an era in which the level of human suffering as a result of intra-state conflict seems to be escalating exponentially. The essential challenge remains, how to create the political...

HALIFAX, N.S. (February 12, 2015)– On Red Hand Day, the international day against the use of child soldiers, the Roméo Dallaire Child Soldiers Initiative (Dallaire Initiative) at Dalhousie University...

New York—The Department of Peacekeeping Operations at the United Nations, formally launches Train, Act, Protect: A new standard in child protection training for peacekeepers. The launch at the...

KINSHASA, 13 March, 2014 – With Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) still a grave threat to civilians, a letter from 59 civil society groups released today...

Freetown, Sierra Leone— From November 11 th to November 22 nd , in Freetown, Sierra Leone, the Roméo Dallaire Child Soldiers Initiative will conduct its second set of training of security sector...

(FREETOWN) — Once a recruiter of child soldiers, Sierra Leone is now poised to become a leader in preventing the use of children in armed conflict, as officers from the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed...

February 11, 2012, (FREETOWN) — The Roméo Dallaire Child Soldiers Initiative will mark February 12, the International Day Against the Use of Child Soldiers, in Freetown on Tuesday as it begins a new...

Introduction According to the Failed States Index Data 2011, created by the Fund for Peace Organization, 6 countries most affected by piratical activity fall within the top 15 most fragile states...

A Unique Approach 2.1 Children in Armed Conflict – A Military Priority In focusing solely upon disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) and not upon the complete eradication of the use of...

Executive Summary In May 2012, a workshop entitled “Living Within Armed Groups: A Gendered Perspective” was held at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada. The event was facilitated by the Roméo...