Best Practice: Qualities/Criteria for CSO Negotiating Team in Peace Process and Peace Negotiations Inclusive: Everyone can join the movement. Reaching out to everyone. Independent: From different political groups. From other influences and sectors. Negotiating Team: 1. Inclusive and representative: different political perspectives, sectors and religious groups and other differences are represented including grassroots. 2. Willingness
Read More5. Mobilizing in Support of Peace Negotiations. Advocating for an effective peace informally with Track 1 actors and Track 2 actors who are outside the Negotiating Table is part of the CCSDS strategy. Much of this work will be in quiet and private discussions or by facilitating confidential roundtable dialogues rather than in public forums.
Read More4. CCSDS Negotiating Team at/advocating at Track 1 Table. The CCSDS leadership is conscious of the sensitivity of political negotiation and the need to have citizen support for the outcomes of the negotiations. The CCSDS negotiating team will reflect the diversity of CCSDS and Syrian society. Its model is the team of five CCSDS women
Read More3. Mechanisms for Inclusion. A committed, effective CSO can build engagement and confidence in peace processes. For a CSO seeking to represent citizens’ views in peace negotiations, legitimacy and credibility depends on its success in reaching out to, listening to and engaging a diverse range of people. This is critical to building trust and confidence
Read More2. Values/Principles/Criteria. As a CSO, CCSDS will play a constructive, independent and non-partisan role in the peace negotiations. To defend its independence and neutrality CCSDS will use objective criteria to decide on negotiating priorities and develop negotiating positions on these. These objective criteria will come from CCSDS values and principles. This approach allows CCSDS to
Read More1. Entering/Advocating at Track 1 Peace Negotiations. The CCSDS goal in engaging in Track 1 Peace Negotiations is to have a sustainable peaceful solution to the conflict. CCSDS arrived at the conclusion that working for a political solution for peace was necessary because the military solution will not work. A political solution is inevitable at
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