The Cameroon team organised a practitioners workshop in Yaoundé on 19 March 2025, entitled ‘Strengthening Community-Led Approaches to Unarmed Civilian Protection in Cameroon’.
The event was held at the Friedrich Ebert Foundation office and attended by 30 representatives of local, national and international NGOs and diplomatic officials. The aim was to share research, experiences and brainstorm on ways to strengthen community-led nonviolent approaches to protection in Cameroon.
The Cameroon team presented their findings to the audience, stimulating a discussion about unarmed civilian protection in the Cameroonian context and Africa more generally. A Practitioners’ Roundtable involved representatives from Peacebuilders International (PBI), International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and two local women’s organisations working on protection who presented their work on civilian protection in Cameroon and elsewhere.
The workshop concluded by formulating a joint media statement and call to action in French and English.
The workshop was funded through Coventry University’s ESRC/IAA Impact Funding award.