Lindsay Forslund
Deputy Coordinator UN Action
Organisation
UN Office of the SRSG-SVC
International organisation
Speaker session
Stepping up the Commitment to Conflict-Affected Children: Working across the Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus
Aquarium
This panel will focus on children at risk of, associated with, and formerly associated with armed forces and armed groups and. In particular, the panel will discuss how to best prevent these children’s recruitment and use, and support their reintegration through a Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus perspective. The discussion will highlight ways in which children are negatively impacted by their recruitment and use by armed actors and their differentiated needs based on age, gender and disability status. It will furthermore give concrete recommendations for updating the EU Guidelines on CAAC as well as their Implementation Strategy.
Virginia Gamba
UN Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict
Organisation
OSRSG CAAC
International organisation
Speaker session
Stepping up the Commitment to Conflict-Affected Children: Working across the Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus
Aquarium
This panel will focus on children at risk of, associated with, and formerly associated with armed forces and armed groups and. In particular, the panel will discuss how to best prevent these children’s recruitment and use, and support their reintegration through a Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus perspective. The discussion will highlight ways in which children are negatively impacted by their recruitment and use by armed actors and their differentiated needs based on age, gender and disability status. It will furthermore give concrete recommendations for updating the EU Guidelines on CAAC as well as their Implementation Strategy.
Josep Borrell
High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission
Biography
Josep Borrell Fontelles is, since December 2019, the High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission. He previously served as Spanish Foreign Minister (2018-2019) and as President of the European Parliament (2004-2007), of which he was a Member from 2004-2009. Having initially been trained as an aeronautical engineer and economist before his entry into politics, he also held several positions in the Spanish government from 1984-1996, was President of the European University Institute (EUI) and held the Jean Monnet Chair in European Economic Integration at the Complutense University of Madrid (2013-2016).
Speaker session
Stepping up the Commitment to Conflict-Affected Children: Working across the Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus
Aquarium
This panel will focus on children at risk of, associated with, and formerly associated with armed forces and armed groups and. In particular, the panel will discuss how to best prevent these children’s recruitment and use, and support their reintegration through a Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus perspective. The discussion will highlight ways in which children are negatively impacted by their recruitment and use by armed actors and their differentiated needs based on age, gender and disability status. It will furthermore give concrete recommendations for updating the EU Guidelines on CAAC as well as their Implementation Strategy.