CONFLICT PREVENTION PROGRAM (CPP)CIVILIAN PROTECTION COMPONENT (CPC) PROGRAM

Consultations During Preparatory Phase

• Leaderships of Key Parties and ground commanders.

• Civil Society Organizations working for Peace in Mindanao.

• Local Government Units.

• Focus Group Discussions with Community leaders and Civilians Living in Conflict Prone areas.

• International Actors / Groups

Mandate NP P• To enhance the scope and quality of locally based

people’s organisations and peace/human rights advocates.

• To reduce the incidence of violence in the vicinity of NP field sites through means of unarmed international civilian peacekeeping and thereby aiding in the maintenance of the ceasefire(s).

• To support human rights reporting mechanisms in remote conflict areas and assist/connect local and international advocacy groups that work for peace with justice by responding to people’s grievances.

• To localise grassroots conflicts so that they are resolved through dialogue at the lowest level and do not snowball into larger crises.

Our approach

• To stay in contact and talk to all parties

• Cooperation with international organisations and missions and with INGOs

• Emergency Response Network

• Contacts to countries investing in the peace process

• Be known to community and be trusted by them.

NP working principles

• Nonviolence: NP representatives will use only nonviolent means and strategies in all circumstances.

• Non-partisanship: NP will not take any side in the conflict nor make its services available to one party over another.

• Non-interference: NP comes at the invitation of local and national level CSOs, and undertakes activities under their guidance. NP will not undertake to influence outcomes of the conflict except to assure that they are not violent.

• Mutual respect: NP strives not to undermine the reputation of any person or group, rather to understand and report causes and needs while opposing violence itself.

• Permission: NP seeks goodwill and acceptance from all parties.

Advisory Council and its RoleTo enhance the levels of accountability, legitimacy, acceptance

and involve NP Partners in NP P activities, Advisory Board was Established before officially starting the project

• to give advise on plans and strategies

• to get feed-back on actual activity

• consultative body

• to act as a conferential or collegial body

• to recommend new issues and areas to cover.

• to review activities

• to operate on the basis of consensus in giving recommendations

• to give mutual moral support

GRP – MNLF Peace Process

• Both Parties signed the first Tripoli Agreement in 1976.

• Signed the Final Peace Agreement in 1996.

• Partial implementation of the FPA and frustrations raised by Mainstream MNLF group led by Misuari.

• Division within MNLF. Main stream MNLF and Council of 15 led by Cotabato Mayor.

• Tripartitie talks between GRP-factions of MNLF and OIC.

GRP - MILF Peace Process • MILF Officially declared armed struggled in 1984.

• GRP & MILF Entered into Peace talks in 1997 and signed the comprehensive Cessation of Hostilities Agreement in 2003.

• On August 05, 2008, Peace Talks suspended between GRP & MILF on Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain.

• Outbreak of Armed HostilitiesfromAugust 2008.

• Ceasefire Mechanism Structures.

• SOMO & SOMA. Resumption of Peace Talks

• Other key stakeholders like Provincial Governors, Politicians, Illaga(Vigilante groups).

Conflict Prevention Program - CPPFocuses on structures, specifically through:

1) Community Based Human Rights

2) Early Warning Early Response

3) Dialogue

Community Based HR - CPP

Field SiteNo. Trained(March 2009-January 2011)

Maguindanao 147

North Cotabato 156

Lanao del Sur 74

Lanao del Norte 63

Early Warning Early Response - CPPRevitalizing pre-existing structures at the community-level and setting up new structures where non-existant, with local partners

Field Site No. Trained(March 2009-January 2011)

Maguindanao 153

North Cotabato 212

Lanao del Sur 47

Lanao del Norte 53

Local structures engaged/ created or strengthened:

Barangay Disaster Coordinating Council(s):

in every barangay mandated by law but often latent

Early Warning Network (LDS)

Ranaw Election Watch (LDS) - VHF Radio Monitoring

MMI Early Warning Network (Maguindanao)

Dialogue -CPP

1) Open Space Forum

Talking about “safe and secure communities”

Carried out in 4 field sites with

over 380 participants(December 2010 - January 2011)

2) Dialogue between religious communities

Field Site MaguindanaoNorth

CotabatoLanao del Sur

Lanao del Norte

No Participants(March 2009-January 2011)

80 142 22 38

Emerging of the CPC Program

• May 2007: NP starts Unarmed Civilian Peacekeeping Program in Mindanao

• October 2009: GRP and MILF sign an agreement that the mandate of the IMT will be expanded to include the protection of civilians -Civilian Protection Component (CPC)

• December 2009: GRP and MILF invited NP as a member of the CPC as the only international organization

• October 2010: - Launch of the CPC in Cotabato City- NP-CPC employment of additional 9 ICPMs and 6NCPMs

• July 2010: NP-CPC employment of 7 ICPMs and 6 NCPMs

IMT- CPC Structure

International MonitoringTeam

SecurityHumanitarian

Rehabilitation andDevelopment

Socio economicassistance

Civilian Protection

Nonviolent Peaceforce(NP)

Mindanao Peoples Causas(MPC)

Mindanao Human RightsAction Center (MinHRAC

Moslem Organization ofGovernment Officials andProfessionals (MOGOP)

CPC Terms of ReferencesCPC - NP

CPC-NP

„To establish a functioning system and effective mechansism forMonitoring, verifying, and reporting of the compliance and non-compliance of the parties to their commitments under international and national humanitarian laws and human rights laws to take constant care to protect the civilian population and civilian properties against dangers arising in armed confict areas“

To monitor the safety and security of civilian communitites in conflict areas

To monitor and ensure that both parties respect the sactity of worship namely mosques, churches and religious places and social institutions including schools, madaris, hospitals and all places of civilian nature

To monitor the needs of the IDPs and the delivery of relief and rehabilitation support efforts in conflict affected areas in Mindanao

To strengthen ownership of the peace process by supporting and empowering communities to handle conflicts at the grassroot level

To monitor acts of violence against civilians in conflict affected areas

To strengthen the linkages and information-sharing between IMT and the Peace Penals

Manila Liaison Office- 4 int. staff-3 nat. staff -2 consultants

Jolo/ Sulu1 national

Cotabato Main Office-7 int. staff -12 nat. staff

Datu Piang/ Maguindanao5 int., 4 nat., 1 driver

General Santos/ South Cotabato, Sarangani

3 int., 1 nat., 1 driver

Pikit/ North Cotabato5 int, 4 nat., 1 driver

Iligan/ Lanao Del Norte-3 int, 3 nat, 1 driver

Marawi/ Lanao Del Sur3 int , 3 nat, 1 driver

ZamboangaField site to open in

2011

NP Presence in Mindanao

Laimitan/ Basilan1 national

Ipil, Zamboanga-Sibugay

Field site to open 2011Malabang/ Lanao Del

SurField site to open 2011

(Source: National Statistical Coordination Board, 2007)

• 105,000-126,000 IDPs (IDMC est. NOV 2010)• 8,290,091 NP indirct beneficiaries (excl. mobile coverage)• 10 NP offices • NP presence in 16 provinces(10 permanent, 6 mobile)• Quick response team I and II: 8 int. staff

Sulu-19 municipalities- 410 barangays- Population: 849,670

Lanao Del Sur-39 municipalities- 1 city- 681 barangays- Population: 1,138,544

North Cotabato-17 municiplities- 1 city- 543 barangays- Population: 1,121,974

Lanao Del Norte-22 municipalities- 1 city- 506 barangays- Population: 538,283

Sarangani-7 municipalities- 140 barangays- Population: 475,514

South Cotabato-10 municipalities- 2 cities- 225 barangays- Population: 767,254

Maguindanao-36 municipalities- 506 barangays- Population: 1,273,715

CotabatoCity

-1 city- 37 barangays- Population: 259,153

Z-Del Sur-26 municipalities- 1 city- 681 barangays-- Population: 914,278

Z- Sibugay- 16 municipalities- 389 barangays- Population: 564,186

Basilan-11 municipalities- 1 city-210 barangays- Population: 408,520

Selected achievements: The first six months

• 6 monthly reports about the compliance and non-compliance of the parties (AFP and MILF) to their commitments under international and national humanitarian laws and human rights laws were submitted from NP-CPC to the IMT

• NP-CPC field teams verified and reported 75 incidences of violence against civilians in Mindanao to the IMT, whereupon 16 cases were confirmed and 13 election related violence incidences were confirmed

• NP-CPC conducted 23 coordination meetings with national CPC members

• NP-CPC undertook 107 monitoring activities in regard to the protection of the civilian population and civilian property in Mindanao

Cooperation and support to the national CPC members

• NP-CPC drafted the CPC- Terms of References, later signed by GRP and MILF

• NP-CPC drafted initial Operational Guidelines

• NP-CPC conducted 23 meetings with national CPC members and provided venues, logistical and technical support in this regard

Plans for 2011: • 2 day planning meeting of all CPC members in January

• Provision of training to national CPC members on International Law, monitoring, verification and reporting

• Establishment of the CPC Secretariat

• Strengthening and harmonization of the overall CPC reporting system to IMT and finalizing the Operational Guidelines

• Creation of joint protection sites

• Set-up of 3 additional NP-CPC offices

NP-CPC staff

• NCPMs from all over Mindanao, from all religions, ethnicities and background; they have the local knowledge

• ICPMs from 15 different countries, representing the eye of the world in Mindanao

• NCPMs and ICPMs were trained together, they work together, they live together, they laugh and cry together

NP-CPC monitors the safety and security of civiliancommunitites in conflict areas and provides proactivepresence

NP staff lives within the conflict affected communities

NP is accepted by the civilian communities in Mindanao

NP-CPC monitors, verifies and reports on violations of civilians, for instance destroyed homes, which is one cause for internal displacement

NP-CPC monitors, verifies and reports on the situation of women and children affected by conflict (here: IDPs)

NP closely cooperates with local partners

NP has access to the AFP

NP has access to the MILF

NP-CPC works closely with the GRP-MILF Peace Penals

NP-CPC staff are experienced and committed to their work, life and work is a unity for them

Sudan: Developing Civilian

Engagement for the Prevention of Violence in Sudan

Reducing Violence and Increasing Security Creates Space for

:

ReconciliationDevelopment

Social Cohesion

Current NPSD Project Areas

• Capacity Building: creating Capacity for Self-Sustaining Unarmed Civilian Peacekeeping for Vulnerable Communities

• Proactive Protective Presence: Deterring Violence, Increasing Security and creating Safe Space for Civilians

• Child Protection: Instrument for Safe Return, Rehabilitation and Reintegration

• Conflict Early Warning/Early Response: Formalized and coordinated CEWER program

Capacity Building

The goal of the project is to create a

sustainable reduction in violence and

improvement in security in vulnerable

areas for vulnerable populations by

empowering them to take a proactive

role in their safety.

Proactive Protective Presence

To provide proactive, protective presence to deter the threat of immediate violence, to develop and implement sustainable risk reduction strategies including Early Warning/Early Response mechanisms.

Decision Makers International

Pressure

Perpetrator

Targeted Civilians

Proactive Presence• Targets entire chain• Reveals Responsibilities• Strengthens international commitment

Consequences of Actions

Actions with Unacceptable Consequences

Actions with Unacceptable Consequences

Actions with Acceptable Consequences (impunity)

Affect of Protective Presence

Actions with Acceptable

Consequences (impunity)

Keeping Children & Youth Safe

Supporting Reintegration/Return

• Finding Safe Spaces for Children/Youth at Risk

• Protection from Recruitment/Abduction

• Preparing Community for Increasing Safety and Security of Children/Youth

• Creation of CP Monitoring Committees

Conflict Early Warning/Early Response

• Coordinated collection of CEWER indicators

• Sudanese ownership of process

• Increased focus on response to ensure immediate protection

• 10 state roll-out

Key Achievements – First 6 months• De-escalation of tensions between pastoralists and

agriculturalists

• Establishment of Peace Committees in 4 communities

• Return to school in 2 communities as a result of violence prevention work

• Requested to act as advisor to governor for violence reduction and nonviolent conflict resolution

• Have received requests to expand into 7 more states

Plans for 2011

• 2 new child protection teams (Nzara and Juba)

• Expansion of CEWER into Northern Bahr el Ghazal and Unity State

• Mobile team deployment Lakes State

• Deployment of 3 -5 civilian protection teams to north-south border area “hot spots”

• Implementation of GBV specific protection/prevention programming

Current

Programming

Phase 1

Expansion

Phase 3

Expansion

Phase 4 Expansion