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Protecting Those Who Stay: A Practical Guide to Holistic Duty of Care
At NP, a holistic Duty of Care framework embeds physical protection and safety, emotional wellbeing and psychosocial support, and operational safety measures, including information, communication and awareness, into the design and delivery of our work. The approach has been shaped most clearly by experience in high-intensity conflict settings such as Ukraine, but we are finding that its principles transfer across diverse environments. Our latest briefing explores how the Duty of Care package can be applied across contexts.
Topics: Humanitarian Emergency Response | Mental Health and Psychosocial Support | Responsible PartnershipsCountries: Ukraine -
Civilian Protection Needs and Responses in Coastal West Africa: Benin and Togo
Between June and August 2026, Nonviolent Peaceforce (NP) conducted research looking at civilian protection and peacebuilding needs in Coastal West Africa, with a specific focus of Togo and Benin. This brief is the result of this research and draws on 24 key informant interviews from an August field mission, plus several months of desk research. This work took place against the backdrop on the complex Sahelian context where violent extremism has been growing faster than in any African region over the past decade.
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Kherson Evacuation Train: Civilian Journey Overview and Protection Gaps
The Kherson regional authorities, in partnership with Ukrainian Railways (Ukrzaliznytsia), provide a free evacuation train service for residents from Khersonska oblast to Khmelnytskyi in western Ukraine. This train has been running since 2022, however, recent attacks on railway infrastructure have changed the process for taking this train and the associated logistics. Recent monitoring visits conducted by Nonviolent Peaceforce (NP) between 18 and 24 September has brought to light several significant protection gaps that exist along this evacuation route. These disproportionately affect people with specific protection and assistance needs and may expose evacuees to gender-, age-, and disability-specific protection risks throughout the journey.
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High-Level Dialogue on Strengthening African-Led Conflict Prevention and Resolution
Nonviolent Peaceforce (NP), Amani Africa and the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) convened a High-Level Dialogue on 20 July 2026 in Addis Ababa under the theme ‘Strengthening African-Led Conflict Prevention and Resolution: Seizing the Unique Opportunity that the Luanda Summit Presents’. Held in advance of the Extraordinary AU Summit to be hosted by Angola, the dialogue brought together representatives of a Member State, a REC, civil society and community-level practitioners.
Countries: Sudan -
Safe Shelter, Dignified Lives: Living Conditions in the Areas of Internal Displacement and Their Impact on Civilian Safety
Years of large-scale ongoing displacement, housing destruction, and inaccessibility caused by Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, have created a severe housing crisis across the country. Mandatory evacuations remain ongoing across frontline and border regions, affecting hundreds of settlements. Evacuation orders have been frequently issued in response to escalating insecurity and shifting frontlines. The following brief takes a closer look at the living conditions in the areas of internal displacement and their impact on civilian safety. It lays out key protection risks and concerns that civilians are facing, as well as recommendations for maintaining and/or improving their safety amidst displacement.
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Trauma Healing for IS-Affected Communities in Iraq: Key for Lasting Peace
The legacy of trauma in Iraq, particularly in Ninewa after the IS occupation, continues to hinder social cohesion and peacebuilding. Unresolved trauma fuels cycles of violence, making mental health a critical concern. Addressing trauma healing is essential for community recovery, reconciliation, and sustainable peace. Locally-led initiatives play a key role in bridging gaps in Iraq’s stabilization efforts and ensuring the effectiveness of the Humanitarian-Development-Peace (HDP) nexus. NP’s community-level engagement has often proven impactful in fostering healing and resilience.
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Psychosocial Protection in Humanitarian Crises
The physical safety and mental health of people experiencing violence are deeply intertwined. Conflict and violence generate high levels of psychological distress due to direct threats to safety and human rights. Cases abound of unaddressed trauma fueling cycles of violence or reducing capacities for civic engagement and self-protection. Effective protection efforts need to integrate responses to these mental health challenges to be sustainable, effective, and ethical.
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Protecting Those Who Stay: Rethinking Duty of Care
At NP, a holistic Duty of Care framework embeds physical, technical, psychosocial, and operational safety measures into the design and delivery of our work. NP’s Duty of Care approach has been shaped most clearly through experience in high-intensity conflict settings such as Ukraine. Yet, we’re finding that the principles underpinning the approach are transferable across diverse operational environments. Our latest briefing explores how we are adapting the Duty of Care package across varying conflict landscapes, from Ukraine, DRC, Iraq, Myanmar, to South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, and within the United States.
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PoC Week Through the Arts: Artists from Conflict on Protection, Pressure and Survival
In a week defined by high-level statements and carefully hedged statements, the event tried to offer a different register (poetry, music, and visual art) created by people living in or displaced by conflict, presented in an intimate walking exhibition format.
