10 stepping stones 

Gather4Humanity  identifies five  tasks that help to prevent, detect, stop, identify and address core international crimes: 

Access

Like minded people, professionals, organisations and partners are in need of instant and readily available and accessible advice, best-practices, validated (open source) information, data, documentation, expertise and access to victims and witnesses. 

Compliance

Advocating, teaching and otherwise disseminating standards of international humanitarian law and furthering tools and mechanisms to prevent and monitor core international crimes, including early warnings systems.

Identification, investigation, qualification

The identification, investigation and qualification of crimes, and  alleged crime locations, involved entities and individuals. 

Law enforcement

Laws are to be enforced by addressing perpetrators through prosecution, extradition and exclusion from refugee status. Meassures should be in place to safeguard security concerns and proper bordermanagement and migration screening. Once crimes have been committed, truth (factfinding), justice and accountability should be furthered through proper investigations and factfinding mechanisms.

Furthering impact

In order to increase the efficieny and effectiveness investments are necessary in capacity building, multidisciplinary cooperation and innovation. Furthermore, investments could be made in enhancing methods and mechanisms for sharing existing expertise and resources.

Gather4Humanity  identifies five core issues that need to be addressed: 

Access

The complexity of core international crimes and the highly ad hoc, institutional, judicial, closed, content driven and academic approach make the sector less accessible. All parties gain from having acces to and share validated information and data, expertise, best-practices, resources or access to victims and witnesses. There is little oversight and limited insights are shared on a structural basis. 

Professionals and  organisations suffer from limmited resources due to ad hoc funding, various and overtime different (political) priorities, time consuming individual and case-driven orientation, and non-sustainable businesscases.

Multidisciplinary cooperation

Trust, mandates, mutual understanding, political agendas and other judicial and practical obstacles to cooperation leave unexplored the full potential of cross sector approaches by the public sector, private sector, academic sector and civil society (organisations). Also the triangle between prosecution, police investigators and border- and migration authorities could be strenghtened. 

Outreach

Organisations and professionals could further explore the opportunnities that come with outsourcing their secondary tasks, and invest in the overwhelming potential of crowdsourcing, wisdom of the crowd and  co-creation. 

Private sector

The private sector could become more engaged for 2 reasons:

1) For reasons of their increased corporate responsibilities, their due diligance obligations, their efforts to comply with sanctionlists, their efforts to prevent money laundering and financial support for designated entities and individuals, and their reputation management. 

2) for exploring ways to strengthen the efforts of like-minded people and organisations and to strengthen their social impact.