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Facilitating City-Led Action to Promote a Human-Centric Approach to Peace and Security

Presented by Strong Cities Network. Since the release of the 2011 World Development Report, a paradigm shift has been deemed necessary for more integrated and sustainable pathways towards security, justice, and stability. A comprehensive approach that engages with all actors of the community and recognizes their different needs and broader connections can help tackle the deeply rooted and complex challenges that fragile cities and conflict-affected states are facing. This includes the hybridized set of threats being exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic, with extremism and militancy driving polarization and division and the mainstreaming of disinformation, conspiracy and extremism are threatening democratic values and institutions. This session will focus on the important role that mayors and the cities they lead can play addressing this hybridized sets of challenges. Local leaders and local authorities can respond to the needs of their citizens in ways that can build community trust and social cohesion while providing security and protecting democratic values, while ensuring coordination and integration of efforts. This is a response that their national counterparts often cannot or will not deliver. Local leaders from cities and other sub-national authorities will share their experiences demonstrating how cities in different FCV contexts can be powerful nodes for reinforcing good governance, accountability, human rights, and democratic renewal that open the way for peacebuilding, stabilization, and prosperity. This includes by creating safe spaces where local community members and leaders can actively engage in shaping resilient societies to prevent violent extremism, polarization, and reduce the segregation perceptions of isolation. The session also aims to explore the nexus between development and security – from cities’ immediate needs such as health care and housing to education and their interconnectedness to building long-term community resilience and stability. The Strong Cities Network (SCN) -- a global network of more than 150 cities -- with its focus on catalyzing more city-led efforts to address extremism, hate, and polarization, is well-placed to lead this session. It has kept abreast of the continuously and dramatically changing threat landscape during these uncertain times, listening to the needs of local leaders, communities and cities which have increasingly been articulated in more complex terms than those articulated by global actors who typically pursue a more siloed approach to engagement at a local level, e.g., through the Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism (P/CVE), Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), or Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agendas. SCN, through its engagement with its members in different FCV contexts, has seen how cities, particularly when provided with the necessary mandate and support, can act as the connective tissue across these siloed agendas and catalyze more integrated approaches to implementing them at a local level. The panel includes - Mohamed Seoudi, Mayor of Saida, Lebanon Munira Hamisi, Director for CVE and Community Engagement, Governor’s Office, Mombasa, Kenya Funny Kanojerera, Deputy Mayor of Blantyre, Malawi Eric Rosand, Executive DirectorStrong Cities Network