Peacekeeping

Building national capacities is also central to strengthening training in order to address such crimes. That is what we are doing through the Centre of Excellence for Stability Police Units in Vicenza, which provides high-quality training and specialized courses for peacekeepers on the prevention and investigation of sexual and gender-based violence. This is a project we are carrying out with the United States of America.

Finally, as I said earlier, prevention and assistance to victims are not enough without accountability for perpetrators. It is only when sexual violence becomes visibly more costly that will there be a significant step forward towards the eradication of this scourge.