The Humanitarian Disarmament Roundtable project is designed to develop new approaches to humanitarian disarmament. In 2023 we convened 55 people from civil society, governments, international organizations and academia at a workshop and conference to discuss the development of new thinking on humanitarian disarmament. We also conducted interviews with practitioners from civil society organizations who have experience from humanitarian disarmament processes. The project is supported financially by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Based on these discussions we present insights on the state of humanitarian disarmament across five policy briefs. In those publications we examine the key aspects of the past, present and future of humanitarian disarmament, we assess the effects of geopolitical changes, and we provide a summary of discussions at the 2023 conference. All the policy briefs can be read individually, but they are designed to form an ensemble, collectively containing analysis of contemporary problems and providing recommendations for how the humanitarian disarmament community can overcome them.
Key members of the project team who were at PRIO are Ambassador (retired) Steffen Kongstad and David Felipe Gómez Triana.
The project is carried out in collaboration with the Norwegian Academy of International Law (NAIL) and the Norwegian Red Cross (NRC), represented by Magnus Løvold (NAIL), Torbjørn Graff Hugo (NAIL) and Preben Marcussen (NRC).
