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1 PADOVA PHRG Peace Human Rights Governance Civil Peace Corps: New Inspiration for the Italian Marco Mascia and Antonio Papisca Policy Papers DOI: /pupj-phrg How to cite: Mascia, M., Papisca, A., (2017), Civil Peace Corps: New Inspiration for the Italian Foreign Policy, Peace Human Rights Governance, 1(1), March 2017 UP

2 PHRG 1(1), March 2017 Marco Mascia* and Antonio Papisca** Abstract fosters an enhanced role for civil society organisations because of their direct Key-words: Human Rights

3 1. Introduction role for civil society organisations because of their direct involvement in to recent legislation touching on four themes of great political and

4 legislative provisions into a comprehensive political agenda. reform the third sector and social enterprises and to issue regulations corps to train and deploy in in areasor at risk or in

5 contingents of civil peace corps the presence of young volunteers to deploy in actions service provides for a revision of the regulations governing domestic universal civil service unarmed defence of their country and to to promote the founding values their entirety. or a function that contributes to the material or spiritual progress of.

6 the obligations of alliances or international or intergovernmental. ultra vires

7 from gender-based violence.. performing a useful bridge concept of an ombudsman for each individual peace mission is perfectly environmental sectors. Charter.

8 function both before the volunteers are deployed and during their mission. Civil Service and four representatives from academia and civil society. One ground implementation of the European security strategy.

9 of volunteers. is carried out are advanced by the organising body and reimbursed by the practice.

10 should be used. ius cogens fundamentally comprising the Universal Declaration of Human of Peoples to Peace and the Declaration and Programme of Action on

11 European Parliament Recommendation to the Council on the Establishment an instrument contributing to stability and peace. are all interdependent and indivisible. Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human human rights and fundamental freedoms at the national and international glocal

12 peace and and development cooperation areas for granted and divides them into areas of or environmental emergencies= the report outlines a comprehensive route for the evolution of the United high politics

13 organizations. by the President of the Security Council to report to the members of the Secretariat

14 members of the Security Council agree to consider using such meetings the Statute of the ad hoc and intergovernmental and non-governmental organisations are urged to :

15 detailed reports to the international criminal jurisdictions. in the implementation of the Agreement covers all areas of operations fundamental to the success of peace-building processes. justice.

16 di pace to implement the collective security system described in the United Tavola della Pace Colomba recognise conscientious objection to military service as a fundamental participated in missions abroad in areas of crisis and international Rete et al=

17 Caschi emergencies.

18 Asia Africa Americas Europe Oceania Only bodies listed on the national and regional registers and those of national civil service activities for at least three years in the areas and sectors

19 trialled No. of Volunteers Country Name of Organising Body Area 1 Area 2 Outside Italy Area 2 Italy Area 1 Area 2 Outside Italy Area 2 Italy CESC Project (Coordinating body of civil service organisms (Association of - Haiti - - dei Fuochi in - - Philippines Christian Organizations Ecuador Lebanon Colombia Peru and development of civil service dei fuochi in

20 Terra dei Fuochi. Humanitarian aid and resident communities and refugees in Lebanon Peace facilitators for resilient communities in the suburban CESC Project Confederazione nazionale delle misericordie (Catholic albinism. Lebanese communities

21 Operation Dove in Colombia accompany them. Civil peace corps for Herzegovina Combating discrimination against migrants in the suburbs of Lima reintegration programmes for been victims of violence Project support teachers and school managers. Children and young adults from representatives of CSOs solidarity and tolerance refugee communities in Jordan adults from Jordan and Syrian refugees. young adults participating organizations participating in the programme. campaigning for the social participating in the campaign.

22 Area 2 Environmental emergency outside Italy Support to indigenous peoples in Ecuador in managing and preventing environmental Support to the indigenous population in Peru in managing and preventing environmental Haiti Civil police corps in the Environmental emergency in nazionale delle misericordie Foundation adults from the indigenous communities receiving training campaigns on reforestation to add value to the cultural and natural heritage of indigenous receiving environmental and health and hygiene training. young community leaders receiving human rights training. Andes region

23

24 build the capacity of hosting organisations and foster volunteering in third consistency of volunteering across Member States.

25 as available for deployment to support and supplement humanitarian aid in the norms and procedures of the Regulation and operate in the humanitarian Crescent Societies. organisations. training programmes and their criteria for the recruitment of volunteers. envisaged for the Civil Peace Corps is that of preventing and managing

26 EU Aid Volunteers CPC interventions operate and operational capabilities of human rights and humanitarian internally displaced persons reintegration of former internally displaced people and preventing and managing abroad.. (Ministry of Labour and Social prevent and transform the activities. cooperation and dialogue (including strengthening and communication channels by violence (including on the instruments and (including education to reduce on the local level (monitoring protection against human rights violations in third countries intended to provide needs-based emergency assistance aimed at and maintaining human dignity in the face of man-made and protection operations in humanitarian crises or supporting measures to ensure access to people in need and aimed at reinforcing disaster resilience and capacity to cope

27 distinguishes the training of the Civil Peace Corps is the emphasis placed on the institutional road to peace and hence on the role of international training of CPC volunteers consists of a general theoretical and practical management.

28 Civil Peace Corps characteristics of the activities of the individual projects and includes the

29 Service system. humanitarian aid and the codes of conduct and standards. the CPS operates. are responsible for assessing candidates based on the information provided aid scenario.

30 EU Aid Volunteers apply for selection for the civil volunteers must meet the of age but not be more than convictions (including a jail sentence of over one the person or relating to illicit seditious or terrorist groups or language of use on the project. the selection of volunteers is carried out according to the methods currently applied for national civil service. real needs of the local partner organisations. Selection criteria - completed relevant training or comparable inter-cultural - actively engaged in civil capacity-building for civil fundamental ideas of the CPS. and in an organised and - preventive health care healthy degree of distance and - ability to respond appropriately to threatening situations dictates that the sending and the hosting organisations shall jointly establish the that the sending organisation shall assess the candidates based on the information provided on the application form and self-assessment statement of motivation ability to analyse a relevant scenario of humanitarian aid organisation shall provide a longlist of applicants to the shortlist of candidates to be on the choice of volunteer is organising the induction phase.

31 - linguistic competency in the language of the host country and in the relevant language of - pedagogical competency and procedures of donor communication and

32 the ius ad bellum change - rectius ius cogens ratio of international human Civil and Political Rights. decree. of permanent active neutrality.

33 and passive neutrality. others. ratio, abstensionist ratio perspective of multi-level governance and collective security. ratio oriented. multilateralism. authorise actions involving the use of force. Since becoming a member of

34 foreign policy. sub specie on participation in international missions are to be interpreted according to ius ad bellum sense that the use of military force is legitimate if it is used as individual 5. Article 43 Article 106

35 animus bellandi animus iustitiae in this direction comes from a motion approved recently by the Chamber of on the right to peace and the Declaration on human rights education = internationally recognised human rights constitutes a solid precondition for

36 strengthened and democratised. to be carried out in its natural seat - the relative Programmes of the United the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights groups respectively. We have already mentioned that on the sensitive issue of the Security fundamental freedoms.

37 References Global Governance Passo==passo Anch io a Sarajevo, Ediz. Messaggero. Civilian Headline Goal 2010 Cleup.

38 Volunteers Initiative in 2014 Volunteers Initiative in 2015 European Parliament Panorama internazionale. Accountable Global Governance

39 Pace Idee e proposte sulla via istituzionale alla pace Pace Cooperation and Development. Economic Cooperation and Development. popoli human rights reconstruction

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