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Engagement
This is the process of seeking to positively influence NSAGs in
so far as their operations affect the lives of people and communities.
This process entails direct and deliberate contact with NSAGs and
encompasses the spectrum of communicating activities. However, SSN
itself as a network will be less involved in direct engagement and
more involved in working with intermediaries to help build capacities
as well as learning from such intermediaries. Engagements will be
characterized by the following:
- inclusive, participatory, dialogical and persuasive, rather
than coercive and repressive
- not military engagement, law enforcement, criminal prosecution,
economic sanctions and other “hard” policy instruments/measures
against NSAGs but SSN studies the implications of these on the
overall effort of constructive engagement of NSAGs, including
their legal accountability for HR and IHL violations. SSN certainly
does not engage in counter-insurgency, nor uses this as a framework.
- focuses on the whole question of NSAG engagement, with the
following priority areas or levels of engagement:
- human rights (HR), esp. fundamental rights against torture,
disappearances and displacement; international humanitarian
law (IHL), esp. basic protection from grave breaches; and
accountability, both in its legal and non-legal/non-judicial
forms
- peace processes, ceasefires, and other (human) security
aspects, inc. disarmament, demobilization, reintegration and
rehabilitation (DDRR) of combatants as well as their repatriation
and resettlement and aspects of healing and reconciliation
- rehabilitation, reconstruction and development of conflict-affected
areas, with priority to protection of refugees and internally
displaced persons (IDPs)
- political democracy, inc. political and electoral reforms
that would allow the viable transformation of NSAGs into political
parties in a fair political system, and also good governance
as applied to proto-state formations and post-conflict transition
- internal democracy (openness and tolerance, basic political
and civil liberties) and other internal reforms, including
dealing with the corrupting influences of power and with the
gender question
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