Connecting the dots: integrated approaches to migration, peace & security

A podcast by KOFF - The Swiss Platform for Peacebuilding, DCAF - Geneva Centre for Security Sector Governance, Paxion.

This podcast brings together local and international perspectives from different areas (research, psychosocial support, exemplary initiatives) to discuss the relevance of the peace-migration nexus for peace policy and practice.

What are the linkages between security, peace and migration? How do security approaches in migration governance affect peace(building)? By focusing the relevance of security sector governance as a sub-aspect of migration governance, we jointly explore what characterizes the security needed in situations of displacement and examine its relevance to peace. 

Moreover, we present and apply two recent publications concerning the nexus: The “Toolbox – addressing migration in peace policy and practice” by KOFF/swisspeace, and the policy paper “The security sector governance-migration nexus: strengthening SSG for the benefits of migrants and migration governance” commissioned by DCAF.  

• Featuring: 
  • Joëlle Gehrig, actress and moderator, finance officer at swisspeace;
  • Carmela Bühler, deputy head of the migration foreign policy section in the human security division at the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs;
  • Emine Sariaslan, social education worker with a focus on integration, participation and social support for families, board member of Paxion; 
  • Dr. Sarah Wolff, director of the Center for European Research at the Queen Mary University in London.

Contributions to the Geneva Peace Week 2020 Digital Series do not necessarily represent the views of the Geneva Peacebuilding Platform, its partners, or the partners of Geneva Peace Week.