Launched on the margins of the UN Peacekeeping Defense Ministerial conference in November 2017, the Vancouver Principles are a set of commitments that seek to prioritize and further operationalize child protection within UN peacekeeping, with a focus on preventing the recruitment and use of child soldiers. Canada’s Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs Pamela Goldsmith-Jones delivered opening remarks, and the event concluded with a panel discussion that featured Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict (SRSG-CAAC) Virginia Gamba; Lieutenant-General (retired) Derick Mgwebi of South Africa (former UN Force Commander to the UN Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo, MONUSCO); artist/activist and former child…