Gaming for Humanitarianism Rebecca Sutton and Marc Linning
Event details
Come learn about and see a demo of the BEYOND training tool, a serious game supporting individuals and organisations who work to address harm and need in war.
Developed by the Beyond Compliance Consortium (BCC), this 2D training tool provides an interactive experience to cement learning on how interventions can best address 'harm + need' generated in conflict.
Through a demonstration and guided discussion, discover how interactive experiences can have practical, real-world impact in humanitarian, human rights, and peacebuilding practice and research, and how game-based tools can be useful in other contexts, such as education.
Join Rebecca Sutton and Marc Linning from the Beyond Compliance Consortium for a demonstration and a reflective discussion.
This event will take place live on Zoom Webinar. You will receive a link to join a couple of days before the event and a reminder an hour before. During the event, you can ask questions via a Q&A function, but audience cameras and microphones will remain muted throughout.
Beyond Compliance Consortium
The Beyond Compliance Consortium is a co-productive, socio-legal research partnership that traverses the fields of international law, conflict studies, humanitarian protection work and human rights policy and brings together these communities of scholarship and practice with people with lived experience of conflict. Funded with UK International Development from the UK government, the Consortium is undertaking a three-year research programme ‘Building Evidence on Promoting Restraint by Armed Actors’. The research centres local communities’ everyday lived experiences of armed conflict and aims to contribute to the effective prevention and reduction of civilian harm and humanitarian need, and the facilitation of full(er) protection in war.
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About the speakers
Professor Rebecca Sutton is a Co-Investigator for the Beyond Compliance Consortium and a Professor of international law at the University of Glasgow, UK. She is an international lawyer and academic with a practitioner background in youth peacebuilding, human rights and humanitarian aid. Her interdisciplinary research agenda focuses on the role of emotions in International Humanitarian Law (IHL), innovations in legal education pedagogy, and participatory methods in youth peacebuilding. She is the author of The Humanitarian Civilian (Oxford University Press, 2021) and her work appears in many peer-reviewed journals and in edited collections such as Research Handbook on Law and Emotion (Edward Elgar 2021). She holds a PhD in Law from the London School of Economics, UK, a JD from the University of Toronto, Canada, and an MSc in Violence, Conflict and Development from SOAS, University of London, UK. Rebecca qualified as a barrister and solicitor in Ontario, Canada in 2014. She previously worked as a practitioner in the humanitarian field. She spent five years with the NGO War Child Canada and from 2009 to 2011 she was based in Darfur as War Child’s Sudan Country Director. Rebecca routinely advises policymakers and from 2021 to 2022 she led the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) study Beyond Compliance: IHL, Humanitarian Need and Civilian Harm in Armed Conflict.
Marc Linning is the Director of the Protection of Civilians Division at the Center for Civilians in Conflict (CIVIC). He oversees a team of technical advisors providing strategic and technical support to CIVIC programs across the globe. His expertise includes the operationalization of civilian harm mitigation efforts by armed actors as well as the support and engagement of conflict-afflicted communities to better self-protect.
Before joining CIVIC in 2018, Marc was as a Delegate of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) for 15 years working on humanitarian protection and prevention in contexts, such as Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories, the Persian Gulf region, the United States, Colombia and at ICRC Headquarters in Geneva. As ICRC HQ Advisor at the unit responsible for relations with arms carriers he was the focal point for ICRC’s institutional dialogues with US military, NATO, UN Peacekeeping actors and Private Military and Security Companies.
Marc holds a MA degree in Intelligence and International Security from King’s College London and a bachelor’s degree in Arabic and Politics from the School of Oriental and African Studies.
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