The Conference: Knowledge Platform Annual Conference (KPAC)
The Annual Conference 2024 (KPAC24) is the Platform's flagship event. In the pastOver time, Annual Conferences have brought together several hundred practitioners, policymakers, and researchers to exchange on emerging challenges and approaches in the field of security and rule of law in fragile and conflict affected settings. The Conference was for a long time held in The Hague, The Netherlands, but in 2023, driven by the intention to host it closer to realities of fragile and conflict affected settings, it was organised in Nairobi, followed by uptake conversations in The Hague.
KPAC24 Theme: Building Trust, Pacifying Power, Connecting Realities
The programme for KPAC24 will be co-created together with co-hosts Gorée Institute and REPAOC, and members of the KPSRL network. It builds on the KPSRL thematic headline for 2024 “Making Realities Meet. From Lived Experiences to Humane Institutions”. This guiding theme asks the platform’s work to focus on the People-Centred Approach (PCA), the Locally Led Development Approach (LLD), and their intersection.
The intersection of PCA and LLD is the space where policy and programming are both responsive to lived experiences AND devolved as close to citizens as possible. Here, SRoL support is characterised by local ownership, equity, and action shaped by context.
About the Knowledge Platform
The Knowledge Platform for Security & Rule of Law (KPSRL) aims to jointly explore innovative approaches to emerging challenges in the field of security and rule of law in fragile and conflict affected contexts. KPSRL is a consortium project funded by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and implemented by the Clingendael Institute, the International Development Law Organisation (IDLO), and Saferworld. The Platform creates and facilitates learning, and networking among practitioners, researchers, and policymakers active in the field of security and rule of law, in the Netherlands and internationally.