Project: Firearms Possession and Human (In)Security: Impact on youth and gender based violence24Feb2017
The Third Regional Conference on Human Security
The Third Regional Conference on Human Security entitled Human Security in Dire Times: The Balkans, Turkey, and the European Process starts today in Athens, Greece. The organizer of the conference is CLAIM! Citizen's Network for Peace, Reconcilliation and Human Security for the Western Balkans and Turkey in cooperation with the Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, in Athens.
On the behalf of the Public Policy Research Centre, Jelena Sapic will participate and present key findings of the project "Firearms possession and Human (in)Security: Impact on the youth and gender-based violence". She will also present the work of Svetlana Djurdjevic Lukic in the field of small arms and light weapons. Svetlana was a director of the CENTRE and manager of human security programme until September 2016 when she tragically passed away.
This third conference, an annual event of the network, will allow for an interactive debate and formulation of a strategy and action plan for network sustainability and for the improvement of advocacy. Besides specific issues the network has focused on so far, from workplace, displacement and youth to trust in the public system, governance/accountability, the conference will focus on migration and issues around the surge of refugee movements across the region as well. As such, participants shall find an opportunity to discuss humanitarian aid and human security, and the engagement of civic initiatives in the context of refugee-related issues.