💬 "When conflict threatens our community, every minute matters. ...Protecting civilians starts with local people taking action for one another." —Pia Dagandal, Women Peace Monitor, BABAE Project, #Philippines

🦠 As the #Ebola outbreak spreads through eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, NP, International Alert, and @lifepeaceinstitute.bsky.social are warning that regional conflict is creating conditions that make the virus harder to contain.

🎙️"It's a cheaper investment to create buffers of #safety and security than having to provide every single basic need that still doesn't meet what folks [truly] need.” -Tiffany Easthom, Executive Director, NP ⬇️ Watch or listen to the interview: bit.ly/4vOx8Ng

Can unarmed civilians be protected? A conversation with Tiffany Easthom of Nonviolent Peaceforce.

OR listen on Spotify! At a time when armed conflicts are protracted, violence against civilians is escalating, and humanitarian actors are facing

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✨ At NP, the legacy of the late #NelsonMandela continues to inspire us daily. May these #PeaceQuotes inspire you, too, as you lead with #nonviolence!

💬 "Before, we thought protection belonged to organizations. Today, we know protection belongs to all of us. Even if we have nothing to give, we can listen, accompany, and make sure no one suffers alone." -Women Protection Team Member, Tawila, #Sudan

🌐 In recognition of #WorldYouthSkillsDay, we're highlighting a recent workshop organized by Save The People USA, NP's NY team, and @icny.bsky.social.

🏚️ Years of large-scale ongoing displacement, housing destruction, and inaccessibility caused by Russia’s full-scale invasion of #Ukraine, have created a severe housing crisis across the country.

#Gender is increasingly weaponised in conflict, yet gender-sensitive protection is being defunded just when it's needed most. Our new research shows how people in Iraq, Myanmar, S. Sudan & Ukraine already adapt gender norms to protect themselves – humanitarians must pay attention: buff.ly/8VTnY3c 📖

Gender norms and protection: navigating agency, risk and backlash

This report identifies six critical takeaways for humanitarian, protection and gender actors to strengthen the intersection of gender norms with protection action in the current hostile geopolitical…

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💬 "...Through the Women-Friendly Space, I've come to realize that women like me also have a voice and a responsibility in building our community.” -Sweetsel, Women-Friendly Space Facilitator, Maguindanao del Sur, BARMM, #Philippines

💬 "We realized that responsibility towards the village had become our duty.” -Mazen*, Krovy Youth Peace Team (YPT) Member Nearly a decade after the end of the ISIS invasion of northern #Iraq, communities across the region continue to rebuild their lives. *Name changed for privacy

🆕 As a result of deadly landslides that struck Bushushu and Nyamukubi villages in 2023, nearly 794 households fled to the Katashola plantation in Muhongoza village, located in Kalehe, #DRC.

🚨Our latest #Ukraine brief highlights a rapidly deteriorating humanitarian and protection crisis in the temporarily occupied settlements of Oleshky in the #Kherson region.

🗣️ “NP has been an incredible supporter and a vital #CommunitySafety resource for our Chinatown Night Market… Their guidance and in-person support helped us build a strong plan for heat, crowd control, police presence, and outside agitation.” -Anna Ye, Special Events & Culinary Programs Manager

🔶 Women in Iraq continue to face structural barriers shaped by restrictive social norms, unequal access to resources, and limited participation in public and political life — challenges that are often amplified in conflict-affected areas like #Ninewa.

🔹 In Sinjar, #Iraq and surrounding areas, youth-led efforts demonstrate practical #peacebuilding through everyday actions.

🔸 Since fleeing violence in #Darfur, a number of women have been able to reestablish their Women's Protection Team (WPT) in #Tawila. With the support of NP, they're leading hygiene awareness sessions.

Cuts to foreign aid programs are having lasting effects, according to a new report. An advocate with @nonviolentpeaceforce.org says the reductions not only ended services but also damaged trust with communities in conflict zones. #ForeignAid #GlobalIssues #Policy

Florida lawmakers hold key as Congress weighs foreign aid

Last year’s freeze on foreign aid programs and a later $7 billion rescission by Congress did lasting damage to the flow of foreign humanitarian aid, according to an advocate with

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🦽 Odesa is home to one of #Ukraine’s largest veteran populations, including over 7,300 veterans who have disabilities as a result of injuries sustained during their military service.

🕯️Nonviolent Peaceforce mourns the death of Sarah Mohamed Ahmed, a frontline humanitarian and social worker with our partner the Darfur Women Action Group (DWAG) in #Sudan.

Civilians cannot be protected effectively when those providing protection are themselves under threat. 👂Listen in 13:15-14:45EDT ➡️https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k16/k16sm8woyq #POCWeek2026 side event

Community groups work for peace in wake of San Diego mosque attack ➡️ tinyurl.com/mrymn836

Community groups work for peace in wake of San Diego mosque attack

Source: Public News ServiceSuzanne Potter Community groups in San Diego are redoubling their efforts to combat violence after

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Each drone costs $20K+. Each interception $1M+. Civilians in #Iraq pay in ways that can't be measured in dollars — disrupted sleep, restricted movement, compounded trauma. Our new white paper examines what drone warfare actually means for people on the ground. 🔗 tinyurl.com/bdz4ctfb #DroneWarfare

📅 May 20! Join our side event at #POCWeek2026: ⬇️ RSVP before May 18 tinyurl.com/4msu66je #NotATarget #ActForHumanity

🗓️ May 20! Join us for an event at #POCWeek2026: Centring Civilian Agency and Community-Led Protection in an Era of Constraints, Austerity and Impunity ⬇️ Register before May 18: tinyurl.com/5n8ytm84 #NotATarget #ActForHumanity

🗣️“These attacks are occurring in broad daylight, when people are going about their daily lives. The scale and nature of these strikes indicate an intent to cause maximum civilian harm.” -Joachim Kleinmann, NP Head of Programmes in Ukraine

“This is what the human cost of war looks like on the ground in four countries. The stories and people profiled are merely snapshots of an unfathomably vast, brutal picture. This crisis is ongoing. For each day of complacency, the cost of lives and livelihoods goes up.” Go deeper here:

Wars Do Not Occur Within a Vacuum

A relentless humanitarian crisis is being waged across multiple regions of the Middle East. As innocent lives and legacies are being annihilated, survivors share their stories from the ground.

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This is the reality of millions of civilians across Iran, Lebanon, Jordan, and Iraq who are being punished for a regional war they never wanted.

🆕 Briefing — Protecting Those Who Stay: Rethinking Duty of Care Duty of Care is the ethical, legal, and organisational responsibility to anticipate, prevent, mitigate, and respond to risks to the physical and psychological wellbeing of those undertaking #humanitarian action. Read ➡️ bit.ly/4dy5g95

🚨This afternoon, Russian strikes hit densely populated civilian areas in Kramatorsk, #Donetsk region, using multiple suspected guided aerial bombs. At least 6 civilians have been killed and many more injured.

💬 “We came to develop scenarios really at the request of #community members who felt that they really needed to know what it was like to be in the moment.” -Roz Lee, Head of Mission, NP US

💬 “When the resolution was reached, our hearts felt lighter.” -Faisal Alejo, Motorcycle Taxi Driver, #Mindanao, Philippines 👥 After getting tangled into a rido (revenge killing), Faisal asked our staff at NP to help him and the the feuding families set up an 'amicable settlement".