QCEA prioritises ‘migration and peace’
‘Migration is a peace issue, and QCEA will work alongside others to develop this approach and make it more prominent in the European policy space.’
Quaker Council for European Affairs (QCEA) has chosen migration and peace as a key strand of its work for 2023-2024. According to its latest Around Europe newsletter: ‘Migration is a peace issue, and QCEA will work alongside others to develop this approach and make it more prominent in the European policy space.’
Under this new strategic direction, QCEA said that the following are its key priorities: ‘promoting peaceful, rights-based approaches to migration at origin, transit and destination’; and ‘expanding the scope of peacebuilding action on migration within Europe, particularly action to tackle structural violence, counter hate speech and safeguard the rights of migrants, minorities and people of African descent’. It will also aim to ensure that ‘EU peacebuilding, climate and external action are sensitive to issues of migration and displacement’, as well as ‘opening up and co-creating spaces of imagination and possibility to gain new perspectives on migration and mobility’.
