The concept note highlights that the formal release of children associated with armed groups and armed forces is only the first step for their sustainable reintegration into civilian life, and stresses the importance of sustained education and healthcare services in that process. Rocco Blume, the Head of Policy and Advocacy for War Child, UK, will sum up the meeting. Participants in the interactive session are Siobhan O’Neil, Project Director of the United Nations University Centre for Policy Research, and Yenny Londoño from the Group of Young Consultants on Childhood, Adolescence and Armed Conflict in Colombia. Following introductory remarks by Ambassador Marc Pecsteen de Buytswerve (Belgium), who chairs the Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict, the following panelists will speak: Special Representative to the Secretary-General on Children and Armed Conflict Virginia Gamba, Director of UNICEF’s Emergency Programmes Manuel Fontaine, and Henk-Jan Brinkman, Chief of the Peacebuilding Strategy and Partnerships Branch in the Peacebuilding Support Office. The meeting is co-hosted by Belgium, Peru, Poland and the UK. It will also focus on how incorporating children’s views can lead to more effective strategies for reintegration and post-conflict recovery. In this regard, the meeting will focus on how bridging the “humanitarian-development-peace” (HDP) nexus can lead to more sustainable and successful reintegration of children associated with armed forces and armed groups. Tomorrow (26 November), Security Council members will hold an Arria-formula meeting on how to better support children once they have been separated from armed forces and armed groups. ![]() ![]() Arria-formula Meeting on Reintegration of Children Associated with Armed Forces and Armed Groups
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