The first meeting of the newly formed Advisory Group for Disrupting Violent Connections took place in London on 8 May 2013. The meeting included 16 participants from academia, civil society, probation services and diplomacy.
The purpose of the advisory group is to provide a space for participants to discuss concrete and innovative approaches to dealing with criminal violence, including through research and practical projects.
The group will bring together experts from a variety of sectors to discuss and debate some of the shared dilemmas researchers, practitioners and policymakers face when it comes to dealing with criminal violence. For example, the normative and legal framework associated with engaging on criminal violence from a non-law enforcement perspective.
We formed this group in response to existing trends of conflict and violence seen around the world, and in recognition of the fact that peacebuilding does not traditionally engage with criminal violence, even though this type of violence affects the lives of millions of people globally.
We will be publishing a Peace Focus paper on this subject in June.
Find out more about our work on this topic here. [5]
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