Rights-and Evidence-based Approaches to Insecurity: Lessons from Child Protection

This roundtable will examine how hard security objectives – such as countering organized crime, terrorism, or addressing armed conflict – are deeply intertwined with broader prevention, protection, and human rights objectives, and how effective responses require genuinely integrated, evidence‑ and rights-driven approaches. Focusing on child-protection in contexts of insecurity, and drawing on the work of UNODC in Vienna and UNIDIR in Geneva in this area, the session will explore why existing frameworks often still result in fragmented, siloed action; which information gaps persist and how to redress them; and why child rights are still violated in the process of addressing abuses against them.

It will assess the structural and operational barriers that impede effective cross‑pillar cooperation across humanitarian, human‑rights, justice, development, and security systems, while also examining how countries can better coordinate across sectors and alongside communities and families to improve outcomes for children. Highlighting emerging research as well as participatory and other initiatives, the discussion will identify promising practices and practical strategies to overcome institutional divides, leverage synergies between multilateral hubs, and advance holistic, rights‑based, and evidence-driven approaches to contemporary peace and security responses.

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