About us
The Civilian Protection Monitor was created as a collaborative partnership between Airwars and PAX, building on more than a decade of joint advocacy and concerted efforts to improve the protection of civilians in conflict. Airwars now carries forward this work on CPM, steering our efforts to identify best practices and lessons learned on the protection of civilians, understand gaps in national systems, and facilitate the implementation of stronger approaches.
The framework behind CPM is adapted from the ‘Protecting Together’ toolkit developed by the Center for Civilians in Conflict, which allows for the consistent measurement and comparison of state policies and practices.
Airwars
Airwars is the pre-eminent global civilian harm watchdog, with a decade’s expertise documenting and exposing civilian harm and holding those responsible to account. We aim to reliably and independently document the human cost of war in order to promote a more peaceful world where human lives are acknowledged and taken into account by militaries, policy-makers, and global citizens with dignity and empathy. Founded in 2014, Airwars engages with states engaging in modern conflicts, such as the United States, United Kingdom, and the Netherlands to review policy, doctrine, and practice on civilian harm mitigation and response, incorporating lessons from recent engagements in order to improve future approaches. Much of this work has led to improved systems and recognition of the consequences of warfare for civilians across the world; in the United States, for instance, over 70 percent of the allegations of civilian harm examined by the Department of Defense originate in the Airwars archive.
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