Seminar of HRITC on Peacebuilding The necessity of activating the role of civil society in building peace in the Arab region and facing the challenges of violence
At HRITC Symposium on Peacebuilding
The necessity of activating the role of civil society in building peace in the Arab region and facing the challenges of violence
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Taiz:
The Human Rights Information and Training Center – hritc held a symposium on peacebuilding in the Arab region today, Saturday 20 June.
Speaking at the symposium that took place via visual communication technology and was broadcast on the platform of the Information and Training Center for Human Rights today from Taiz, Mr. Fadi Abi Allam, head of the Permanent Peace Movement in Lebanon and the regional coordinator of the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict- GPPAC, stressing the importance of re-consideration of the concept of human security In the Arab region and on peacebuilding based on human rights.
The symposium reviewed the challenges surrounding the peacebuilding process in the Arab region, the most prominent of which are political challenges, wars, economic collapse, the spread of refugees, and the absence of democracy.
He said that the inhabitants of the Arab world constitute 5 percent of the world’s population, but they consume five percent of the purchase of weapons produced in the world
And that due to the conflicts and burning wars, the Arab region is the most in terms of the refugee crisis and the spread of poverty, which amounts to twenty percent of the population of the Arab world and thus constitutes the highest percentage on the international level.
The symposium also touched on the importance of the role of civil society, women and youth in the peacebuilding process and the necessity of finding an effective change in the social mindset and the prevailing culture in the region that suffers from strengthening the path of violence, the spread of a culture of arms and the resort to force.
Shireen Al-Jurdi, Regional liaison officer of the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict GPPAC in the Middle East and North Africa, spoke about the partnership’s efforts to get the voice of peace activists and the international community to the decision-making centers, including the list of recommendations that were submitted to the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
She emphasized the necessity of activating the role of civil society in building peace in the Arab region during this difficult stage in the region.
The symposium confirmed its conclusion
The need to strengthen the role of NGOs, women and youth in building peace and stopping violence
It also called for the necessity of stopping the destructive wars in the Arab region and working to activate a regional mechanism for the peaceful settlement of disputes.
To watch the symposium on our Facebook page, on the following link:
https://www.facebook.com/HRITC/videos/288726745836845/
Human Rights Information & Training Center
Taiz – Yemen
20 / 6 / 2020
