Etienne Antheunissens has a legal education and 25 years of multicultural experience in complex environments, in the field of protection of human rights, humanitarian assistance and diplomacy. He worked for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) for several years in Afghanistan, Indonesia, Southern Ethiopia, the Gaza Strip, Thailand and Cambodia.
He was then assigned to the United Nations’ Inter Agency Protection Capacity Unit (ProCap) as Senior Protection Officer to the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic, Guinea and Ivory Coast.
Since 2008, as an international trainer and coach, Etienne designs training modules and facilitates individual and team’s change management exercises, trainings of trainers and mentoring sessions in protection of civilians, reform of security and justice sectors and fight against human trafficking.
Roots and Transition (R&T) has been selected to contribute to the combined evaluation of the European Union’s humanitarian interventions in the Horn of Africa, 2016-2020, and DG ECHO's programmatic partnership with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
In an ever more urbanising world, peacekeepers will increasingly operate in cities. In a recent article, the authors analyse how attacks against the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) affected the peacekeepers’ ability to operate in Mogadishu.
