Yaounde, 17-18 of February 2010
“CIVILIAN PROTECTION, UN PEACEKEEPING AND HUMAN SECURITY:
PERSPECTIVES FROM THE CENTRAL AFRICAN REGION ”
In a continued effort to promote National, regional and global peace and security, the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Foundation (LUKMEF-Cameroon) in collaboration with the Global Action to Prevent War and the International Coalition for the Responsibility to Protect organised an African regional workshop at the Protestant University of Central Africa, Cameroon.
The workshop brought together representatives from key government ministries (military, Police and civil), the civil society, diplomatic missions and international programs.
It provided an opportunity to inform and build the capacity of the delegates on civilian protection, genocide prevention, Responsibility to Protect and the UN Emergency Peace Keeping project.
Major outcomes of the workshop included:
(1) The need to improve information flow between AU/UN member countries during policy development and implementation beyond state actors to include non-state actors and the general population
(2) The need to improve Civilian-Military understanding and partnership in local, national/Regional peace and security issues. Delagtes expressed the urgency of this outcome to be transformed into a national program
(3) The need to maintain regular briefing for delegates and others on developments around the AU/UN on issues of peace and security that involve Civilian Protection, the Responsibility to Protect, genocide prevention and the UNEPS project
(4)The need to step up national debate on the role of women in peace keeping operations and other peace processes (as Cameroon provides more and more personnel to most AU/UN peace keeping operations).
(5) The delegates adopted to constitute as a working group on Civilian protection, Genocide Prevention, Responsibility to Protect and other AU/UN peace and security issues, mandates and deliberations
Post workshop speaker session
Following the outcome of the Yaounde workshop and the need to increase understanding and greater participation in the eventual implementation of these outcomes, we organised a two hours speaker session on Saturday the 20th of February at the Government teachers Training school in Buea. The session brought together members of the civil society, faculties, and the Religious communities.
After debriefing on the Yaounde workshop outcome, participants expressed their support and committed themselves to join and participate in actions relating to the implementation of the outcomes. They also pledged participation in Peace and Human security issues, as well as other local, national and regional concerns on civilian protection, Responsibility to protect and Genocide prevention.
These speaker sessions are planed for all state Universities in 2010
Contact:
Cameroon:
LUKMEF-Cameroon;
Tanyi Christian;
P.O. Box 1348, LIMBE,
SW Region, Cameroon
Tel: (237) 77 94 74 49 / 237 95 02 89 00;
Christian@LukmefCameroon.ORG
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