The Beyond Compliance Consortium is a co-productive research partnership between three universities and six humanitarian and human rights organisations. 

Funded with UK International Development from the UK government, the consortium is developing a three-year theoretical, empirical, and operational 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 humanitarian need and civilian harm, and the facilitation of a broader protective environment in war.

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The Beyond Compliance Consortium is an academic-practitioner research partnership comprised of: 

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Beyond Compliance Consortium
c/o Centre for Applied Human Rights

beyond-compliance-consortium@york.ac.uk
6 Innovation Close, University of York, York, YO10 5ZF

Our research is grounded in and responds to the reality of war. Working co-productively with humanitarian organisations and the FCDO, we aim to generate new ways of thinking that translate into practical, effective tools that policy-makers, operational actors, and civilian communities themselves can employ in their humanitarian efforts.

Professor Ioana Cismas, York Law School, Co-director of the Centre for Applied Human Rights, and Principal Investigator of the Beyond Compliance Consortium

The urgent challenges that communities caught up in armed conflict are facing right now cannot be met by any single actor, nor by one body of law. This academic-practitioner collaboration will focus on the everyday lived experience of armed conflict, with the shared ambition of better understanding – and addressing – the drivers of humanitarian need and civilian harm in war.

Rebecca Sutton, Senior Lecturer, School of Law, University of Glasgow, and Co-Investigator of the Beyond Compliance Consortium

There is still much to be learnt on how international humanitarian law and other legal regimes applicable in armed conflict capture the lived experiences of civilians in armed conflict, and the potential of different actors, including civilian communities to contribute to a compliance ecosystem which is defined not only by restraint but also protection.

Katharine Fortin, Associate Professor, School of Law, Utrecht University, and Co-Investigator of the Beyond Compliance Consortium

By delving into the nuances of compliance and restraint in armed conflict, the programme will provide invaluable insights to everyone trying to understand how States and non-State armed groups operate. Understanding these dynamics is paramount, as it can serve to mitigate the devastating impact conflicts have on civilian populations around the globe.

Ezequiel Heffes, Director, Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict, and Co-Investigator of the Beyond Compliance Consortium

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Contact us

Beyond Compliance Consortium
c/o Centre for Applied Human Rights

beyond-compliance-consortium@york.ac.uk
6 Innovation Close, University of York, York, YO10 5ZF