Geneva Peace Week: Recent Episodes
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Episode 4 features Hilda Issa from Palestine and Concy Louis from South Sudan. They discuss the importance of and challenges to young women’s inclusion in peace processes.
Almost 25 years after the adoption of UNSCR 1325, women continue to face exclusion from and marginalisation in peace processes. This five-part podcast series features reflections from women peacebuilders around the world on their experiences of women's participation in peace processes, the various challenges they encounter, and strategies they have employed to amplify their voices and influence. Discussion topics across all episodes draw on the thematic foci of the 2023 Berlin Declaration and include, inter alia, women's access to the necessary financial means to meaningfully participate, their protection, and the role of women's (solidarity) movements in enhancing their participation and influence in peace processes. Each episode involves conversations with women peacebuilders.
Podcast by inclusive Peace: https://www.inclusivepeace.org/ and Women’s Peace and Humanitarian Fund: https://wphfund.org/
Episode 5 features Natalia Brandler from Venezuela and Sartu Shemsuddin from Ethiopia. They exchange on the challenges and opportunities for women’s participation in national dialogues, focusing particularly on the role and situation of women’s civil society organisations.
Almost 25 years after the adoption of UNSCR 1325, women continue to face exclusion from and marginalisation in peace processes. This five-part podcast series features reflections from women peacebuilders around the world on their experiences of women's participation in peace processes, the various challenges they encounter, and strategies they have employed to amplify their voices and influence. Discussion topics across all episodes draw on the thematic foci of the 2023 Berlin Declaration and include, inter alia, women's access to the necessary financial means to meaningfully participate, their protection, and the role of women's (solidarity) movements in enhancing their participation and influence in peace processes. Each episode involves conversations with women peacebuilders.
Podcast by inclusive Peace: https://www.inclusivepeace.org/ and Women’s Peace and Humanitarian Fund: https://wphfund.org/
Episode 3 features Salwa Elsdaik from Sudan and Vimbai Kapurura from Eswatini who discuss the linkages between participation and protection of women peacebuilders in contexts where protection needs recently have become more acute.
Almost 25 years after the adoption of UNSCR 1325, women continue to face exclusion from and marginalisation in peace processes. This five-part podcast series features reflections from women peacebuilders around the world on their experiences of women's participation in peace processes, the various challenges they encounter, and strategies they have employed to amplify their voices and influence. Discussion topics across all episodes draw on the thematic foci of the 2023 Berlin Declaration and include, inter alia, women's access to the necessary financial means to meaningfully participate, their protection, and the role of women's (solidarity) movements in enhancing their participation and influence in peace processes. Each episode involves conversations with women peacebuilders.
Podcast by inclusive Peace: https://www.inclusivepeace.org/ and Women’s Peace and Humanitarian Fund: https://wphfund.org/
Episode 2 is moderated by Breifni Flanagan from the Women’s Peace & Humanitarian Fund (WPHF), she is joined by Sophie Giscard d'Estaing, Program Coordinator at Women’s Peace & Humanitarian Fund (WPHF) and they discuss how current trends in peace processes affect the work of the Women’s Peace & Humanitarian Fund (WPHF) and provide examples of women’s initiatives that the Rapid Response Window has supported more recently.
Almost 25 years after the adoption of UNSCR 1325, women continue to face exclusion from and marginalisation in peace processes. This four-part podcast series features reflections from women peacebuilders around the world on their experiences of women's participation in peace processes, the various challenges they encounter, and strategies they have embraced to amplify their voice and influence. Discussion topics across all episodes draw on the thematic foci of the 2023 Berlin Declaration and include, inter alia, women's access to the necessary financial means to meaningfully participate, their protection, and the role of women's (solidarity) movements in enhancing their participation and influence in peace processes.
Podcast by inclusive Peace: https://www.inclusivepeace.org/ and Women’s Peace and Humanitarian Fund: https://wphfund.org/
Episode 1 features Thania Paffenholz, Executive Director of Inclusive Peace, and sets the stage for the series, describing the changing nature of formal peace processes as well as recent trends in women's participation therein.
Almost 25 years after the adoption of UNSCR 1325, women continue to face exclusion from and marginalisation in peace processes. This four-part podcast series features reflections from women peacebuilders around the world on their experiences of women's participation in peace processes, the various challenges they encounter, and strategies they have embraced to amplify their voice and influence. Discussion topics across all episodes draw on the thematic foci of the 2023 Berlin Declaration and include, inter alia, women's access to the necessary financial means to meaningfully participate, their protection, and the role of women's (solidarity) movements in enhancing their participation and influence in peace processes.
Podcast by inclusive Peace: https://www.inclusivepeace.org/ and Women’s Peace and Humanitarian Fund: https://wphfund.org/
The podcast will allow UNDP to showcase perspectives and conclusions from fresh research on the role of multi-level governance in sustaining peace in fragile and conflict-affected settings, bringing together selected experts in the field.
The discussion will emphasize definitions, demands and tools for strengthening multi-level governance in fragile and conflict-affected settings. In line with the overall theme, this will address challenges at different levels of governance from the global to the local. The podcast will highlight the potential of multi-level governance to strengthen people-centered recovery that addresses grievances, including those at the heart of conflict. The purpose is to demonstrate approaches and tools that hold potential to enhance legitimacy and trust in State-society relations, ultimately contributing to peacebuilding and increased stability.
Specifically, the podcast will share the lessons learnt from a review of multi-level governance in different country settings, conducted by UNDP and University of Melbourne researchers.
The podcast will also showcase UNDP’s new hands-on multi-level governance toolkit (forthcoming, 2023), developed by UNDP and the German Social Innovation Agency Minds & Makers, which is inspired by design thinking principles and targets peacebuilding and development practitioners engaged in country-level programming.
These new products will be complemented by perspectives from other partners as well as lessons from multi-level governance programming in fragile and crisis-affected countries.
Listeners are encouraged to reflect on and respond to questions arising from the podcast and engage in a discussion with other listeners. Please share your thoughts, ideas and questions on UNDP’s discussion page!
Some questions you might want to reflect on are:
- What are your suggestions for making multi-level governance more effective?
- Do you have any examples where multi-level governance contributed to crisis management, peacebuilding and recovery?
- How do governance institutions at different levels collaborate with each other in your country?
Podcast by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) : https://www.undp.org/
Every day, humanitarian workers negotiate with different counterparts – from armed groups to government authorities, and from religious leaders to displaced communities – to deliver aid in crisis situations. To negotiate successfully, these professionals need to carefully analyse the situation, create a strategic plan, and manage very high pressure.
The podcast series “Frontline Negotiators: Stories from the Field” guides you through personal stories told by humanitarian professionals who negotiate to access, assist and protect people in crisis.
The series is produced by the Centre of Competence on Humanitarian Negotiation – a shared initiative of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Médecins Sans Frontières Switzerland, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, and the UN World Food Programme.
For more information, visit frontline-negotiations.org/podcast.
New episodes are released biweekly until December 2023.
Multilateral arms control agreements face a credibility crisis, marked by declining transparency and inconsistent enforcement. Many States Parties now opt for private reports under the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), reducing public accountability. Non-compliance often goes unaddressed. However, the true measure of these agreements should be their impact on communities affected by firearm violence and the trust they foster.
Campaigners striving to prevent gun violence have limited participation opportunities in multilateral forums, where top-down approaches prevail. This podcast aims to amplify the voices of these campaigners, offering their perspectives on the impact of arms control agreements.
Podcast by Control Arms: https://controlarms.org/
Multilateral arms control agreements face a credibility crisis, marked by declining transparency and inconsistent enforcement. Many States Parties now opt for private reports under the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), reducing public accountability. Non-compliance often goes unaddressed. However, the true measure of these agreements should be their impact on communities affected by firearm violence and the trust they foster.
Campaigners striving to prevent gun violence have limited participation opportunities in multilateral forums, where top-down approaches prevail. This podcast aims to amplify the voices of these campaigners, offering their perspectives on the impact of arms control agreements.
Podcast by Control Arms: https://controlarms.org/
Multilateral arms control agreements face a credibility crisis, marked by declining transparency and inconsistent enforcement. Many States Parties now opt for private reports under the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), reducing public accountability. Non-compliance often goes unaddressed. However, the true measure of these agreements should be their impact on communities affected by firearm violence and the trust they foster.
Campaigners striving to prevent gun violence have limited participation opportunities in multilateral forums, where top-down approaches prevail. This podcast aims to amplify the voices of these campaigners, offering their perspectives on the impact of arms control agreements.
Podcast by Control Arms: https://controlarms.org/
Disinformation isn't just false or misconstrued information, but rather a concrete strategy to establish influence and enhance polarisation by targeting specific socio-economic, identity and gender groups.
In this respect, Sigma European Think Tank has produced a podcast series in which the context, procedure and potential consequences for disinformation towards vulnerable groups are discussed. More specifically, the goal of this podcast is to show how targets are selected and for what reason, how it is used to discourage a constructive debate, and the potentials it has to topple peace-building efforts between political groups, nations, and different identity groupings.
Next to our speakers Chris Kremidas-Courtney, Luisa Bunescu and Maximilan Rau, we have also interviewed non-experts to add how they perceive disinformation.
We look forward to giving the audience a deeper understanding of the subject matter, raise awareness and allow for a new appreciation for the complex structures and spin-doctoring of content.
Disinformation isn't just false or misconstrued information, but rather a concrete strategy to establish influence and enhance polarisation by targeting specific socio-economic, identity and gender groups.
In this respect, Sigma European Think Tank has produced a podcast series in which the context, procedure and potential consequences for disinformation towards vulnerable groups are discussed. More specifically, the goal of this podcast is to show how targets are selected and for what reason, how it is used to discourage a constructive debate, and the potentials it has to topple peace-building efforts between political groups, nations, and different identity groupings.
Next to our speakers Chris Kremidas-Courtney, Luisa Bunescu and Maximilan Rau, we have also interviewed non-experts to add how they perceive disinformation.
We look forward to giving the audience a deeper understanding of the subject matter, raise awareness and allow for a new appreciation for the complex structures and spin-doctoring of content.
Podcast by Sigma European Think-Tank: https://www.think-sigma.eu/
Disinformation isn't just false or misconstrued information, but rather a concrete strategy to establish influence and enhance polarisation by targeting specific socio-economic, identity and gender groups.
In this respect, Sigma European Think Tank has produced a podcast series in which the context, procedure and potential consequences for disinformation towards vulnerable groups are discussed. More specifically, the goal of this podcast is to show how targets are selected and for what reason, how it is used to discourage a constructive debate, and the potentials it has to topple peace-building efforts between political groups, nations, and different identity groupings.
Next to our speakers Chris Kremidas-Courtney, Luisa Bunescu and Maximilan Rau, we have also interviewed non-experts to add how they perceive disinformation.
We look forward to giving the audience a deeper understanding of the subject matter, raise awareness and allow for a new appreciation for the complex structures and spin-doctoring of content.
Podcast by Sigma European Think-Tank: https://www.think-sigma.eu/
By the University of Birmingham, the Royal United Services Institute, the University of Geneva
Our podcast and associated activities reflect on the role of cultural reforms in peace agreements and open a broad conversation on how cultural institutions can be reformed to nurture sustainable peace after civil wars. In the podcast, we present our recent work, which explores how all intra-state peace accords concluded worldwide in 1989-2017 reformed cultural institutions. We found that cultural reforms which accommodate cultural diversity in intra-state peace accords makes them more successful and resilient. We explain why this may be the case through examples from conflict-affected societies such as Northern Ireland.
By FAO, CIGAR, The Geneva Graduate Institute, Interpeace, WFP, and the Geneva Water Hub
The climate crisis is significantly transforming the global peace and security landscape by exacerbating the social, economic and political processes that can lead to instability and conflict. These effects are particularly evident in fragile and conflict-affected countries that are highly dependent on a climate-sensitive agricultural sector. In these settings, climate-change induced pressure on local food systems can lead to food shortages and acute food insecurity, even famine, which have been identified as a key pathway through which climate change can cause conflict, especially at the local level. This situation has led to the emergence of a new area within the security sector, climate security, which refers to conflict and security risks induced, directly or indirectly, by climate variability. Within this broader area, food security plays a prominent role: more than 26% of all damages and losses caused by medium- and large-scale climate-related disasters are absorbed by the agricultural sector. In addition, food security interventions and natural resource management has also been identified as an opportunity that can be used to both build peace and adapt to climate change.
This podcast aims at increasing understanding of how agriculture and food systems are linked to climate and conflict dynamics and explores pathways through which food security and agricultural interventions can support the dual processes of building resilience to climate change and sustaining peace. It brings together the expertise and experience of interdisciplinary actors from across international Geneva, and from around the world, to examine both promising past interventions and consider lessons for the future.
By World WYCA
The World YWCA, in collaboration with Geneva Peace Week 2022, bring you a conversation on the role that women and cross-regional solidarity play in the peace processes. The World YWCA is a grassroots, feminist, community-driven movement that has worked tirelessly for the past 167 years to make the world a safer and more just place for women and young women and girls globally.
Over the years the YWCA movement has signed more than 40 resolutions aimed at peace and justice, contributing massively to the UNSCR1325. A key piece of this work lies in the support that YWCA organizations give one another as they advocate for women at peace tables. By understanding that global systems of oppression and conflict are interlocked, partnerships such as that between YWCA Palestine and YWCA Japan are formed, where learnings, support and solidarity informs peace processes.
To learn more about this seemingly unlikely coalition, we have Amal Tarazi from Palestine and Sumie Ogasawara from Japan tell us more about their experiences in practices of cross-regional solidarity, debunking assumptions about conflict being a fact we should not question, and the uniquely indisputable role women play in the fight for peace with justice under the #BulletAndDove concept.
By Business Plan for Peace, Conscious Togetherness, and H&M
We can break down silos between the peacebuilding and private sector and contribute to the overall goal that "Peace is Everybody's Business".
In this podcast for the GPW2022, Dr Scilla Elworthy (the business plan for Peace) and Geli Gallanz of H&M, share insights and examples of new and fresh ways of big brands and peacebuilding organisations can work together for change at both the local and global levels. Based on personal experience, they are inspiring how to go beyond the theoretical perspective into reality.
Podcasthost:
Nienke van Bezooijen
Interviewees: 1. Dr Scilla Elworthy, founder of Peace Direct, the Businessplan for Peace and the Mighty Heart. Three times nominee for the Nobel Peace Price. 4 decades peace builder. 2. Angela Gallanz (Geli) HR manager for H&M western Europe
Geneva Peace-Cast is a new series highlighting solutions emerging from Geneva Peace Week, produced by Interpeace and Fondation Hirondelle in coordination with Geneva Peacebuilding Platform. This podcast is launched on the occasion of Geneva Peace Week’s 2021 edition, happening live at Maison de la Paix and online from November 1 to Nov.5.
Episode 2:
Gbenga Sesan, Executive Director of Paradigm Initiative, social enterprise focused on digital inclusion and digital rights operating across several African countries, interviewed by Jacqueline Dalton, on the use of digital tools for non-violent purposes.
Geneva Peace-Cast is a new series highlighting solutions emerging from Geneva Peace Week, produced by Interpeace and Fondation Hirondelle in coordination with Geneva Peacebuilding Platform. This podcast is launched on the occasion of Geneva Peace Week’s 2021 edition, happening live at Maison de la Paix and online from November 1 to Nov.5.
Episode 3:
General Roméo Dallaire, member of the International Commission on Inclusive Peace, former Canadian Senator and founder of the Dallaire Institute for Children, Peace, and Security, and Bernardo Arévalo de León, member of the Guatemalan Congress, senior diplomat and member of the International Commission on Inclusive Peace of the P4P initiative, interviewed by Luvini Ranasinghe, on the role of governing institutions in building sustainable peace.
Geneva Peace-Cast is a new series highlighting solutions emerging from Geneva Peace Week, produced by Interpeace and Fondation Hirondelle in coordination with Geneva Peacebuilding Platform. This podcast is launched on the occasion of Geneva Peace Week’s 2021 edition, happening live at Maison de la Paix and online from November 1 to Nov.5.
Episode 1:
Christie Edwards, an internationally recognized legal expert with over twenty years of experience working on international humanitarian and human rights law, interviewed by Jacqueline Dalton, on helping governments eradicate intolerance and hate crimes.
Geneva Peace-Cast is a new series highlighting solutions emerging from Geneva Peace Week, produced by Interpeace and Fondation Hirondelle in coordination with Geneva Peacebuilding Platform. This podcast is launched on the occasion of Geneva Peace Week’s 2021 edition, happening live at Maison de la Paix and online from November 1 to Nov.5.
Episode 4: Brice Landry Ndangoui, rédacteur en chef de Radio Ndeke Luka, la radio la plus écoutée en République centrafricaine, interviewé par Nicolas Boissez, sur le rôle des fausses informations et des rumeurs dans les conflits.
Geneva Peace-Cast is a new series highlighting solutions emerging from Geneva Peace Week, produced by Interpeace and Fondation Hirondelle in coordination with Geneva Peacebuilding Platform. This podcast is launched on the occasion of Geneva Peace Week’s 2021 edition, happening live at Maison de la Paix and online from November 1 to Nov.5.
Episode 8: Alex Krasodomski-Jones, Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media, interviewed by Jacqueline Dalton, on the importance of creating a safe digital space that supports democracy.
Geneva Peace-Cast is a new series highlighting solutions emerging from Geneva Peace Week, produced by Interpeace and Fondation Hirondelle in coordination with Geneva Peacebuilding Platform. This podcast is launched on the occasion of Geneva Peace Week’s 2021 edition, happening live at Maison de la Paix and online from November 1 to Nov.5.
Episode 9: Oli Brown, Associate Fellow with Chatham House (the Royal Institute of International Affairs) and GCSP, specialist in peacebuilding, natural resources management and environmental politics, interviewed by Jacqueline Dalton, on the role of natural resources distribution and governance in conflicts.
Geneva Peace-Cast is a new series highlighting solutions emerging from Geneva Peace Week, produced by Interpeace and Fondation Hirondelle in coordination with Geneva Peacebuilding Platform. This podcast is launched on the occasion of Geneva Peace Week’s 2021 edition, happening live at Maison de la Paix and online from November 1 to Nov.5.
Episode 5:
Frank Kayitare, Great Lakes Regional Representative of Interpeace, interviewed by Jacqueline Dalton, on the role of storytelling in societal trauma healing after the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.
Geneva Peace-Cast is a new series highlighting solutions emerging from Geneva Peace Week, produced by Interpeace and Fondation Hirondelle in coordination with Geneva Peacebuilding Platform. This podcast is launched on the occasion of Geneva Peace Week’s 2021 edition, happening live at Maison de la Paix and online from November 1 to Nov.5.
Episode 7: Rosa Emilia Salamanca, Executive Director of Corporación de Investigación y Acción Social y Económica (CIASE) in Colombia, and Sophia Close, Head of Gender and Peacebuilding at Conciliation Resources, interviewed by Arnoldo Galvez, on integrating gender into peacebuilding
Geneva Peace-Cast is a new series highlighting solutions emerging from Geneva Peace Week, produced by Interpeace and Fondation Hirondelle in coordination with Geneva Peacebuilding Platform. This podcast is launched on the occasion of Geneva Peace Week’s 2021 edition, happening live at Maison de la Paix and online from November 1 to Nov.5.
Episode 6: Monica Curca, +Peace's Director, cultural organizer, peacebuilder, communications strategist, designer, and facilitator, interviewed by Luvini Ranasinghe, on the power of storytelling, human-centered design and technological solutions to create inclusive communities.
Geneva Peace-Cast is a new series highlighting solutions emerging from Geneva Peace Week, produced by Interpeace and Fondation Hirondelle in coordination with Geneva Peacebuilding Platform. This podcast is launched on the occasion of Geneva Peace Week’s 2021 edition, happening live at Maison de la Paix and online from November 1 to Nov.5.
Episode 10: Rachel Locke, Director of Impact:Peace at the Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice at the University of San Diego, interviewed by Jacqueline Dalton, on urban violence, online spaces, and coronavirus.
By Forum of Federations, Food4Humanity
Is federalism a solution to the challenges of building sustainable peace in fragile and conflict-affected states? Can a federal peacebuilding approach be codified into a federalism ‘pathway for peace’? We explore the application of federalism as a peacebuilding mechanism, including opportunities, limitations, and how we can achieve more sustainable results, and drawing on the experiences of three fragile states: Sudan, Somalia, and Yemen.
Joining us on this episode:
Marie-Joëlle Zahar, Professor of Political Science and Director of the Research Network on Peace Operations at the Université de Montréal.
Abdi Aynte, co-founder and Managing Director of Laasfort Consulting Group.
Mai Amir, Sudanese governance consultant and technical specialist.
This podcast is brought to you by the Forum of Federations in partnership with Food4Humanity.
Written and hosted by Liam Whittington.
Produced by Asma Zribi, Emilie Tremblay and Liam Whittington.
To get in touch with the podcast, email podcast@forumfed.org. For more on federalism and peacebuilding, check out forumfed.org or find us find us on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube.
Contributions to the Geneva Peace Week 2021 Digital Series do not necessarily represent the views of the Geneva Peacebuilding Platform, its partners, or the partners of Geneva Peace Week.
By United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
The availability of high quality and innovative data as well as the computational capacity to analyse them are growing. These advances have a potential to improve our understanding of the complex,context-specific impacts of climatic and environmental events. They could provide a vital basis for anticipatory action to reduce and avoid current and future security risks in a changing climate. Several data-driven approaches to analyse the interlinked climate and environmental change and security risks are currently being developed. Our podcast, that consist of two episodes, will bring together representatives of three prominent initiatives that use state of the art climate security modelling to support policy making and programming for peacebuilding operations: Weathering Risk, STRATA - The Earth Stress Monitor, and Tools for climate change and fragility, conflict and violence (FCV). All three initiatives are aiming at a better understanding of the complex climate-security risks in order to provide entry points for action to prevent the escalation of climate related conflicts and promote sustainable peace. Importantly, we will not merely introduce the initiatives, but we will also discuss their comprehensiveness and suitability together with practitioners from the ground.
In the first episode, we will introduce and discuss the Weathering Risk initiative from Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and adelphi, and STRATA – the Earth Stress monitor from the UN Environment Programme. The second episode introduces the listeners to the World Bank’s initiative Tools for climate change and fragility, conflict and violence (FCV) from the World Bank, before elaborating on the opportunities and challenges of the initiatives and climate security modelling in more general terms in a joint discussion.
The first Episode will be with: Barbora Sedova, Marie Schellens, Ifrah Hassan Farah, Issa Lele, Francis Eitomhen.
The second Episode will be with: Barbora Sedova, Marie Schellens, Corey Pattison.
Email us at:
binder@pik-potsdam.de
sedova@pik-potsdam.de
marie.schellens@un.org
corey.pattison@un.org
Contributions to the Geneva Peace Week 2021 Digital Series do not necessarily represent the views of the Geneva Peacebuilding Platform, its partners, or the partners of Geneva Peace Week.
By IHEID, WILPF
For this year’s iteration of the Geneva Peace Week, one of the thematic tracks investigates topics related to “Moving Beyond Securitisation: What risks and new horizons for peacebuilding”. Military recruitment is a prerequisite for military engagement and as such it is often investigated with regard to the underlying strategies employed to motivate people to join the military. Gender roles for example often get exploited for recruitment purposes. More precisely, militarised masculinities are often instrumentalized which is further supported by various private industries that have financial ties with the military.
In this podcast, our research team consisting of four IHEID master students and Dean Peacock, director of a multi-country initiative of WILPF and the MenEngage Alliance, will discuss how militarised masculinities are instrumentalized for recruitment purposes. In particular, we will look at the US as an instrumental case study in order to develop a global perspective on the projection and reproduction of militarised masculinities. Next to an intersectional analysis of military recruitment material and the arms industry’s involvement, we will discuss how other global industry actors such as Hollywood more covertly influence the general understanding of gender roles, thereby creating the image of an “ideal militarised hero”. Subsequently, we will discuss how and to what extent this hegemonic image of the ideal man is reproduced and present in a selection of focus countries that differ culturally as well as with regard to other aspects such as mandatory conscription. Lastly, we will discuss how this instrumentalisation can be and already has been addressed in various cases.
Contributions to the Geneva Peace Week 2021 Digital Series do not necessarily represent the views of the Geneva Peacebuilding Platform, its partners, or the partners of Geneva Peace Week.
By United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
The availability of high quality and innovative data as well as the computational capacity to analyse them are growing. These advances have a potential to improve our understanding of the complex,context-specific impacts of climatic and environmental events. They could provide a vital basis for anticipatory action to reduce and avoid current and future security risks in a changing climate. Several data-driven approaches to analyse the interlinked climate and environmental change and security risks are currently being developed. Our podcast, that consist of two episodes, will bring together representatives of three prominent initiatives that use state of the art climate security modelling to support policy making and programming for peacebuilding operations: Weathering Risk, STRATA - The Earth Stress Monitor, and Tools for climate change and fragility, conflict and violence (FCV). All three initiatives are aiming at a better understanding of the complex climate-security risks in order to provide entry points for action to prevent the escalation of climate related conflicts and promote sustainable peace. Importantly, we will not merely introduce the initiatives, but we will also discuss their comprehensiveness and suitability together with practitioners from the ground.
In the first episode, we will introduce and discuss the Weathering Risk initiative from Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and adelphi, and STRATA – the Earth Stress monitor from the UN Environment Programme. The second episode introduces the listeners to the World Bank’s initiative Tools for climate change and fragility, conflict and violence (FCV) from the World Bank, before elaborating on the opportunities and challenges of the initiatives and climate security modelling in more general terms in a joint discussion.
The first Episode will be with: Barbora Sedova, Marie Schellens, Ifrah Hassan Farah, Issa Lele, Francis Eitomhen.
The second Episode will be with: Barbora Sedova, Marie Schellens, Corey Pattison.
Email us at:
binder@pik-potsdam.de
sedova@pik-potsdam.de
marie.schellens@un.org
corey.pattison@un.org
Contributions to the Geneva Peace Week 2021 Digital Series do not necessarily represent the views of the Geneva Peacebuilding Platform, its partners, or the partners of Geneva Peace Week.
By University of Geneva, GCSP
Listeners are invited to follow the journey of Jessica Libertini (US), Emma Ortuño Lattur (Spain), Eduardo Meñez (Philippines), Adriana Hondora (Zimbabwe), and Abubakar Yakubu (Nigeria) as they arrive in Geneva for UNIGE's MAS in International and European Security and the GCSP's Leadership in International Security Course. In this podcast, this international team learns about international security and inclusive leadership, and then applies those lessons to examine the complex issue of climate migration in the context of small island developing states (SIDS). After introducing climate migration in the SIDS and the courses in which this team met, the five team members share some of the lessons they learned, their inclusive groupwork processes, the policy recommendations resulting from their foresighting analysis, and some challenges the team faced. The podcast closes with reflections on the feasibility, importance, and value of the intentional creation of diverse teams in addressing the globe's most pressing security challenges.
The University of Geneva's Masters of Advanced Studies in International and European Security, in partnership with the Geneva Centre for Security Policy's Leadership in International Security Course, offer security professionals from a wide variety of sectors, and from around the globe, an opportunity to come Geneva for eight months, to learn together, and to broaden their perspectives through a synergistic arrangement of academic and professional development programs.
Contributions to the Geneva Peace Week 2021 Digital Series do not necessarily represent the views of the Geneva Peacebuilding Platform, its partners, or the partners of Geneva Peace Week.
A podcast by Economics and Peace, Geneva Centre for Security Policy, IHEID Peacebuilding Initiative (Graduate Institute Geneva).
Humanity is nearing a tipping point and facing challenges unparalleled in its short history. Many of these problems are global in nature, such as climate change, increasingly scarce stock and overuse of natural resources, population growth, social discontent, deadly pandemics, as well as the proliferation of extraordinarily destructive weapons. How can we build sustainable peace and resilience so that societies are better equipped to withstand the inveitable shocks of the future?
Join Steve Killelea, Founder and Executive Chairman of the Institute for Economics & Peace, and Ambassador Thomas Greminger, Director of The Geneva Centre for Security Policy Centre, as they discuss ways to move beyond securitization and towards systemic peacebuilding. Ambassador Greminger and Mr. Killelea will be joined by Miranda Baker and Juan José Ruiz Quintero of the Peacebuilding Initiative at the Graduate Institute of Geneva, to highlight real-world examples and future possibilities for systemic approaches to peacebuilding and development.
To learn more about Positive Peace, please visit www.visionofhumanity.org
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By New York University Center on International Cooperation
New and emerging technologies, data science, and other data-driven methods can bring immense potential to support peacebuilding and humanitarian work. However, we must recognize that these methods come with extreme risk to both the privacy and lives of vulnerable populations if the data is misused or used inappropriately. Although these risks exist across different contexts, the sensitive nature of conflict or violence-affected areas uniquely exacerbates these challenges. In order to “do no harm” while utilizing the potentials of the digital sphere for peace, we must be able to understand and tackle both ethical and technical issues of working with data about crisis-affected people.
Afghanistan is the latest reminder of our urgent need to understand all aspects of merging new technologies with humanitarian, peacebuilding, and development work. As the Taliban seized control of major cities, people grew concerned that the group could use social media and other online information to identify citizens who previously worked for the Afghan security forces, civilian government, or foreign organizations. People still struggle to understand the full scope of the situation left behind by national and international actors and their data-driven projects. Activists are now stressing the risks to Afghans created by all actors who were providing assistance through data and digital tools and calling for greater protection. The situation in Afghanistan is another dire reminder about the need to establish a mechanism that ensures the responsibility of actors in conflict and fragile settings to protect vulnerable populations from both intended and unintended consequences.
Our topic today is Digital Pieces of Peace, and our guests share their experiences and recommendation on how to ‘do no harm’ in the digital age and how to ensure conflict sensitivity, data and civilian protection in the digital age.
Contributions to the Geneva Peace Week 2021 Digital Series do not necessarily represent the views of the Geneva Peacebuilding Platform, its partners, or the partners of Geneva Peace Week.
By War Child, International Labour Organisation (ILO)
This is a War Child Podcast developed with young people in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the International Labour Organisation, the Managing Exits from Armed Conflict project, and the US Department of Labours’ International Labour Affairs Bureau.
In this programme “Help them forget this bad life in the bush”: how the participation of young people formerly associated with armed forces and armed groups is a cornerstone for long-lasting peace, we will discuss the participation of young people in peacebuilding, the state of reintegration programming and the lack of young people's participation within it.
We will hear from members of one of War Child’s VoiceMore groups in Masisi, Eastern DRC. The young people are working on their own advocacy project into the ‘push and pull’ factors into armed groups and will offer their thoughts on young people’s participation in peacebuilding and reintegration.
Then the panel below will react to the points shared by the young people.
- Siobhan O’Neil, Project Director, Managing Exits from Armed Conflict project, the Centre for Policy Research at UN University.
- Simon Hills, Technical Specialist, the International Labour Organisation’s Fundamental Branch
- Jennifer Fendrick, Senior International Relations Officer, Office of Child Labor, Forced Labor, and Human Trafficking, U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of International Labor Affairs
- Sophie Bray Watkins, Youth Advocacy and Engagement Adviser, War Child UK
For more information about War Child’s youth advocacy programme please see: What is VoiceMore?
To read more about the work of the International Labour Organisation, the Managing Exits from Armed Conflict project and the Office of Child Labor, Forced Labor, and Human Trafficking, please follow links below:
- Child labour and armed conflict (IPEC) (ilo.org)
- Managing Exits from Armed Conflict - United Nations University Centre for Policy Research (unu.edu)
- International Child Labor & Forced Labor Reports | U.S. Department of Labor (dol.gov)
Contributions to the Geneva Peace Week 2021 Digital Series do not necessarily represent the views of the Geneva Peacebuilding Platform, its partners, or the partners of Geneva Peace Week.
Geneva Peace Week 2021 theme is From seeds to systems of peace: Weathering today’s challenges. Challenges to peace today have been compounded by the COVID19 pandemic. Geneva Peace Week 2021 nurtures seeds of peace in the new approaches and tools necessary to “weather” the contemporary challenges, while seeking to engage and affect change at the systemic level.
This year we have different Digital Series Contributions within our 4 thematic tracks:
- Creating a climate for collaboration: Ways forward for environment, climate change, and peace
- Moving beyond securitization: What risks (and new horizons) for peacebuilding
- Harnessing the digital sphere for peace
- Confronting inequalities and advancing inclusion, peace, and SDG16
Our Digital Series Contributions will be coming straight to you, wherever you consume your videos, podcasts, and media. Particularly as COVID-19 introduces the necessity of new modes of work and learning around the globe, people interact with new kinds of media and educational methods. This digital series will be free to view, listen, download, and interact with during and after GPW21.
Details on how to engage with the Digital Series can be found on our website here: www.genevapeaceweek.ch.
An Interview Series about Careers in Peacebuilding explores the pathways taken by both young and seasoned peacebuilders in Geneva and in other parts of the world. It aims to provide some guidance and hope to young professionals who look forward to exploring the field of peacebuilding. As peacebuilding is a globalised local initiative that requires a step away from systems that cater to the few, we have made a conscious effort to include voices of and speak to the issues faced by populations who do not find their roots in Europe.
We have an array of episodes lined up:
- Podcast Episode 1: Career stories and recruitment criteria in the NGO sector
- Podcast Episode 2: Diversity and Inclusion
- Podcast Episode 3: Navigating a career in the UN
- Podcast Episode 4: Ethical Leadership
- Video Episode 5: CV and Cover Letter FAQs
- Live online session: Virtual Career Fair
Featuring:
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- Erhan Vural, Protection Officer, IOM - International Organization for Migration
- Natalia Escobar, Project Coordinator, Latin America and Caribbean Unit, DCAF
- Annika Hilding Norberg, Head of Peace Operations and Peacebuilding, GCSP
- Archana Tomar, Peacebuilder and Dreamweaver
- Sabine Meitzel, Independent Trade Development Consultant
- Manuela Morelli, Head of Human Resources Development, ITU
- Claudia Seymour, Senior Researcher, Centre of Conflict, Development, and Peacebuilding, Graduate Institute
- Madhumita Varma, Student, Graduate Institute
- Annika Erickson-Pearson, Community Manager, Geneva Peacebuilding Platform
- Aline Dimitriou Cruz, Senior Career Services Adviser, Graduate Institute
An Interview Series about Careers in Peacebuilding explores the pathways taken by both young and seasoned peacebuilders in Geneva and in other parts of the world. It aims to provide some guidance and hope to young professionals who look forward to exploring the field of peacebuilding. As peacebuilding is a globalised local initiative that requires a step away from systems that cater to the few, we have made a conscious effort to include voices of and speak to the issues faced by populations who do not find their roots in Europe.
We have an array of episodes lined up:
- Podcast Episode 1: Career stories and recruitment criteria in the NGO sector
- Podcast Episode 2: Diversity and Inclusion
- Podcast Episode 3: Navigating a career in the UN
- Podcast Episode 4: Ethical Leadership
- Video Episode 5: CV and Cover Letter FAQs
- Live online session: Virtual Career Fair
Featuring:
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- Erhan Vural, Protection Officer, IOM - International Organization for Migration
- Natalia Escobar, Project Coordinator, Latin America and Caribbean Unit, DCAF
- Annika Hilding Norberg, Head of Peace Operations and Peacebuilding, GCSP
- Archana Tomar, Peacebuilder and Dreamweaver
- Sabine Meitzel, Independent Trade Development Consultant
- Manuela Morelli, Head of Human Resources Development, ITU
- Claudia Seymour, Senior Researcher, Centre of Conflict, Development, and Peacebuilding, Graduate Institute
- Madhumita Varma, Student, Graduate Institute
- Annika Erickson-Pearson, Community Manager, Geneva Peacebuilding Platform
- Aline Dimitriou Cruz, Senior Career Services Adviser, Graduate Institute
An Interview Series about Careers in Peacebuilding explores the pathways taken by both young and seasoned peacebuilders in Geneva and in other parts of the world. It aims to provide some guidance and hope to young professionals who look forward to exploring the field of peacebuilding. As peacebuilding is a globalised local initiative that requires a step away from systems that cater to the few, we have made a conscious effort to include voices of and speak to the issues faced by populations who do not find their roots in Europe.
We have an array of episodes lined up:
- Podcast Episode 1: Career stories and recruitment criteria in the NGO sector
- Podcast Episode 2: Diversity and Inclusion
- Podcast Episode 3: Navigating a career in the UN
- Podcast Episode 4: Ethical Leadership
- Video Episode 5: CV and Cover Letter FAQs
- Live online session: Virtual Career Fair
Featuring:
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- Erhan Vural, Protection Officer, IOM - International Organization for Migration
- Natalia Escobar, Project Coordinator, Latin America and Caribbean Unit, DCAF
- Annika Hilding Norberg, Head of Peace Operations and Peacebuilding, GCSP
- Archana Tomar, Peacebuilder and Dreamweaver
- Sabine Meitzel, Independent Trade Development Consultant
- Manuela Morelli, Head of Human Resources Development, ITU
- Claudia Seymour, Senior Researcher, Centre of Conflict, Development, and Peacebuilding, Graduate Institute
- Madhumita Varma, Student, Graduate Institute
- Annika Erickson-Pearson, Community Manager, Geneva Peacebuilding Platform
- Aline Dimitriou Cruz, Senior Career Services Adviser, Graduate Institute
An Interview Series about Careers in Peacebuilding explores the pathways taken by both young and seasoned peacebuilders in Geneva and in other parts of the world. It aims to provide some guidance and hope to young professionals who look forward to exploring the field of peacebuilding. As peacebuilding is a globalised local initiative that requires a step away from systems that cater to the few, we have made a conscious effort to include voices of and speak to the issues faced by populations who do not find their roots in Europe.
We have an array of episodes lined up:
- Podcast Episode 1: Career stories and recruitment criteria in the NGO sector
- Podcast Episode 2: Diversity and Inclusion
- Podcast Episode 3: Navigating a career in the UN
- Podcast Episode 4: Ethical Leadership
- Video Episode 5: CV and Cover Letter FAQs
- Live online session: Virtual Career Fair
Featuring:
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- Erhan Vural, Protection Officer, IOM - International Organization for Migration
- Natalia Escobar, Project Coordinator, Latin America and Caribbean Unit, DCAF
- Annika Hilding Norberg, Head of Peace Operations and Peacebuilding, GCSP
- Archana Tomar, Peacebuilder and Dreamweaver
- Sabine Meitzel, Independent Trade Development Consultant
- Manuela Morelli, Head of Human Resources Development, ITU
- Claudia Seymour, Senior Researcher, Centre of Conflict, Development, and Peacebuilding, Graduate Institute
- Madhumita Varma, Student, Graduate Institute
- Annika Erickson-Pearson, Community Manager, Geneva Peacebuilding Platform
- Aline Dimitriou Cruz, Senior Career Services Adviser, Graduate Institute
by The Global Institute For Evolving Women, Conscious Togetherness, Business plan for Peace
Listening is the most underestimated skill to master in conversations in general, and especially in peacebuilding. This podcast is transformational for your listening, supported by:
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Scilla Elworthy (UK) 3 times nominated for the Nobel Peace Price, TEDx speaker with over 1 million views, founder of the Businessplan for Peace, author of the Mighty Heart, Businessplan for Peace and Pioneering the possible).
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Nienke van Bezooijen (NL), Voice for authentic leadership for global Impact, initiator of the GIFEW Global Impact platform on Peace and Consciousness, author and mentor).
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Kawtar El Alaoui (CA) (Leadership mentor and trainer, founder of Conscious Togetherness)
This podcast provides you with all you need to listen to oneself, others and what the world is asking from us.
Contributions to the Geneva Peace Week 2020 Digital Series do not necessarily represent the views of the Geneva Peacebuilding Platform, its partners, or the partners of Geneva Peace Week.
A podcast by World YWCA and the Norwegian Church Aid
Contributions to the Geneva Peace Week 2020 Digital Series do not necessarily represent the views of the Geneva Peacebuilding Platform, its partners, or the partners of Geneva Peace Week.
A podcast by Unconventional
Contributions to the Geneva Peace Week 2020 Digital Series do not necessarily represent the views of the Geneva Peacebuilding Platform, its partners, or the partners of Geneva Peace Week.
A podcast by Nonviolent Peaceforce International, Peace Brigades International
Contributions to the Geneva Peace Week 2020 Digital Series do not necessarily represent the views of the Geneva Peacebuilding Platform, its partners, or the partners of Geneva Peace Week.
A podcast by Impunity Watch, Master in Transitional Justice of the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights
Militarised masculinities and its impact on peace has received little attention. Militarised masculinity, an idea of a certain ‘maleness’ that is violent, is central to elites strategies in staying in power.
This podcast by Impunity Watch and the Master programme in Transitional Justice of the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights provides space for an in-depth debate around this neglected topic with leading expert Brandon Hamber from Northern Ireland and human rights activist Brisna Caxaj from Guatemala.
- Featuring:
- Brandon Hamber, Ulster University
- Brisna Caxaj, Impunity Watch
- Thomas Unger (host), Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights
Contributions to the Geneva Peace Week 2020 Digital Series do not necessarily represent the views of the Geneva Peacebuilding Platform, its partners, or the partners of Geneva Peace Week.
A podcast by Direct Democracy Global, Cordoba Peace Institute Geneva, GenerationForPeace
Contributions to the Geneva Peace Week 2020 Digital Series do not necessarily represent the views of the Geneva Peacebuilding Platform, its partners, or the partners of Geneva Peace Week.
A podcast by The Crisis Management Initiative (CMI) in collaboration with the Changing Character of War Center of the University of Oxford and the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP).
Covid-19 is impacting the foundations that underpin global peace and security, and multilateral institutions that uphold peace are facing a crisis that has left them struggling with internal deadlocks. This is felt concretely in Geneva that represents a major site for international diplomacy and peacemaking. The crisis of multilateralism is coupled with technological advancements in warfare that the peacemaking community at large has yet to fully grasp. It is clear that practice of peace mediation needs to adapt to this new reality if it wants stay relevant in the future.
The podcast ""A new global order in the making: How can peace mediation stay relevant in the post-Covid-19 world?"" aims at enhancing the understanding of practitioners in the field of peace building to emerging trends in global peace and security. It does this by providing perspectives on the changing character of conflict and by identifying questions that need to be addressed in peace mediation.
- Featuring:
- Annette Idler – Director of Studies, Changing Character of War Programme, University of Oxford
- Ville Brummer – Programme Director, CMI
- Jean-Marc Rickli – Head of Global Risk and Resilience, Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP)
Contributions to the Geneva Peace Week 2020 Digital Series do not necessarily represent the views of the Geneva Peacebuilding Platform, its partners, or the partners of Geneva Peace Week.
A podcast by SaferGlobe.
In a unique discussion on practical experiences from supporting entrepreneurship in North Korea, Lebanon and Somalia, Maria Mekri, Executive Director of SaferGlobe and Jukka-Pekka Heikkilä, a Scholar-Activist in Entrepreneurship Education in Extreme Environments, explore opportunities and challenges for entrepreneurship for peace with their guests Nour Atrissi and Yusuf M. Mubarak.
Four themes emerge from the discussion as practical lessons for programs focusing on promoting entrepreneurship in fragile contexts: the necessity for co-creation and local ownership in creating entrepreneurship; the central role of trust and trust-building; the need to overcome structural obstacles for change, specifically in financing and banking, and finally the central role of female entrepreneurs and inclusion for sustainability.
- Featuring:
- Maria Mekri, SaferGlobe. Maria Mekri is the Executive Director of SaferGlobe, Finland’s leading think tank on peace and security. She aims to foster and mentor success, strives for excellence, and drives projects forward with 20 years of academic experience in international relations, 10+ years years teaching (e.g. international relations, peacebuilding) and 7 years in management. Maria is motivated by uncovering and supporting processes by which building peace can be more effective. She personally focuses on business in fragile contexts, digitalization, peace technologies and innovation. More from: www.saferglobe.fi
- Jukka-Pekka Heikkilä, Aalto University. Dr. Jukka-Pekka Heikkilä is a scholar-activist based in Finland, Aalto University School of Business, a visiting scholar in Stanford University, Harvard University and a Newton Fellow of the Royal Society. His work focuses on science diplomacy, entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship education in extreme settings. He has been teaching entrepreneurship in North Korea between 2012 - 2017 and is the co-founder of WTSUP! Beirut that focuses on supporting equality and equal opportunities for women entrepreneurs in Lebanon. More from: https://jukkapekka.com/
- Nour Atrissi, TeensWhoCode. Nour is founder of TeensWhoCode, a Lebanon based education startup whose mission is to equip the next generation (12 - 18 y.o) with the necessary skills in order to thrive in a tech driven world. She is the director of Startup Grind in Beirut, a global community inspiring, educating and connecting two million entrepreneurs across 130 countries. Nour holds a Bachelor’s of Science from the American University of Beirut and a Master’s of Science from the Lebanese University & the University of Nantes (France). She’s also a proud Draper University Hero (Silicon Valley).
- Yusuf M. Mubarak, Finland-Somalia Association. Yusuf is a specialist in mobile networks with over 20 years experience working for Nokia. Yusuf is also a business and Somali culture expert, who shares Somali cultural experiences through the Finland-Somalia Association as well as promotes Finland and Somalia business relations together with Finnpartnership, and VTT, MFA and other Finnish institutions. For the last five years, Yusuf has been working on encouraging entrepreneurship in Somalia and business engagement with Somalia, and has been able to foster business ties.
Contributions to the Geneva Peace Week 2020 Digital Series do not necessarily represent the views of the Geneva Peacebuilding Platform, its partners, or the partners of Geneva Peace Week.
A podcast by Busara Center, OECD.
Contributions to the Geneva Peace Week 2020 Digital Series do not necessarily represent the views of the Geneva Peacebuilding Platform, its partners, or the partners of Geneva Peace Week.
A podcast by University of Witwatersrand, South Africa, DIE (German Development Institute), Center for Maghrebian Studies in Tunis.
As the search for more reliable pathways for peace grows in our increasingly complex and polarised world, the social contract concept is drawing interest from policymakers and scholars focused on peacebuilding, as well as states and societies pursuing peaceful change.
This podcast explores the role of social cohesion in social contracts, both as a driver and an indicator of their realisation. It investigates these issues through two Arab Spring countries – Tunisia and Yemen. While Arab Spring settings offered a wealth of possibilities for reimaging, reinventing and manifesting new and inclusive national social contracts, many are not on track to achieve anticipated outcomes desired by many within these societies.
The discussion reflects upon the status of the social contract, the meaning of social cohesion, and the challenges and opportunities for the growth of social cohesion and forging or enriching inclusive and resilient social contracts in both contexts. Lessons for international cooperation are considered in this dynamic, rich discussion with specialists from the region and development aid community.
- Featuring:
- Erin McCandless is an Associate Professor at the School of Governance at Witwatersrand University in South Africa, and directs a research and policy dialogue project on forging resilient social countries in countries transitioning from conflict and authoritarianism. A widely published scholar and policy advisor, she has over two decades of experience working on and in conflict affected settings, broadly on issues of peacebuilding, statebuilding, development and resilience - and their intersections. Her research currently is focused on forging resilient social contracts in countries affected by conflict, fragility and fraught transition. Professor McCandless is author of more than 100 publications, including three books, one entitled Polarization and Transformation in Zimbabwe: Social Movements, Strategy Dilemmas and Change, and several influential, policy-shifting United Nations reports. She is also co-founder and former Chief Editor of the Journal of Peacebuilding and Development. www.erinmccandless.net, www.socialcontractsforpeace.org
- Bernhard Trautner is senior advisor to the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development since 2005: As Deputy Head Middle East Department 2012-15 and at research & evaluation dep’t since 11/2020; He serves as Adjunct Professor at Tübingen University/Institute for Political Science since 2014. Bernhard was seconded as senior researcher at the project on ‘stabilization and development in MENA’ at the German Development Institute 2015-20 and is still an associate researcher there.. https://www.die-gdi.de/en/bernhard-trautner/ Recent co-authorships include: “Reconstituting social contracts in conflict-affected MENA countries: Whither Iraq and Libya?” (w. Mark Furness) DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105085; “Le contrat social: un outil d’analyse pour les pays de la région Moyen-Orient et Afrique du Nord (MENA), et au-delà” (w. Loewe, Markus & Zintl, T.) DOI: 10.23661/bp5.2020
- Laryssa Chomiak is a political scientist, specializing on the comparative politics of the Middle East and North Africa, Director of the Centre d'Etudes Maghrebines a Tunis, and Associate Fellow at Chatham House in London. She is the author of the forthcoming Archipelagos of Dissent: Protest and Politics in Tunisia. Most recently, she was a visiting researcher at the German Development Institute’s (DIE) Middle East Program in Bonn, has lectured at the University of Tunis, and worked on comparative African research programs on political violence, transitional justice and societal peace. Her work has appeared as book chapters and journal articles in Middle East Law and Governance, The Journal of North African Studies, Portal 9 and Middle East Report. Dr. Chomiak has received research fellowships from the Fulbright Commission (Morocco), the International Research and Exchange Board (IREX/Ukraine) and The American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS/Tunisia). She is a member of the advisory board of Middle East Law and Governance. Before her doctoral studies she worked at USAID’s Bureau of Global Health in Washington, DC. Her opinion analyses and essays have appeared in the Washington Post and Christian Science Monitor, as well as for Middle East Institute.
- Fatima Abo Alasrar is a Non-Resident Scholar at the Middle East Institute. Before joining the Institute, Alasrar was a Senior Analyst at the Arabia Foundation in Washington DC, MENA Director for Cure Violence, Research Associate at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington, a Mason Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government, and an International Policy Fellow at the Open Society Foundation. From 2006-12, she worked as an advisor for the Embassy of Yemen in Washington, DC. Earlier in her career, Alasrar served as a program officer for the Department for International Development (DFID) in Yemen. Alasrar holds an MA in Public Administration from Harvard University, an MA in International Relations from Johns Hopkins University, and a BS in Architectural Engineering from Sanaa University in Yemen.
Contributions to the Geneva Peace Week 2020 Digital Series do not necessarily represent the views of the Geneva Peacebuilding Platform, its partners, or the partners of Geneva Peace Week.
A podcast by KOFF - The Swiss Platform for Peacebuilding, DCAF - Geneva Centre for Security Sector Governance, Paxion.
This podcast brings together local and international perspectives from different areas (research, psychosocial support, exemplary initiatives) to discuss the relevance of the peace-migration nexus for peace policy and practice.
What are the linkages between security, peace and migration? How do security approaches in migration governance affect peace(building)? By focusing the relevance of security sector governance as a sub-aspect of migration governance, we jointly explore what characterizes the security needed in situations of displacement and examine its relevance to peace.
Moreover, we present and apply two recent publications concerning the nexus: The “Toolbox – addressing migration in peace policy and practice” by KOFF/swisspeace, and the policy paper “The security sector governance-migration nexus: strengthening SSG for the benefits of migrants and migration governance” commissioned by DCAF.
- Featuring:
- Joëlle Gehrig, actress and moderator, finance officer at swisspeace;
- Carmela Bühler, deputy head of the migration foreign policy section in the human security division at the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs;
- Emine Sariaslan, social education worker with a focus on integration, participation and social support for families, board member of Paxion;
- Dr. Sarah Wolff, director of the Center for European Research at the Queen Mary University in London.
Contributions to the Geneva Peace Week 2020 Digital Series do not necessarily represent the views of the Geneva Peacebuilding Platform, its partners, or the partners of Geneva Peace Week.
A podcast by Partnership for Religion and Development, Islamic Relief, World Vision International, World Evangelical Alliance, Side by Side.
Religious communities and actors can and have shown to be sources of guidance and support, sharing the responsibility of care and acting as a support network to vulnerable groups during the pandemic. In many contexts, faith actors have played an important role through creative and practical approaches to alleviate the impact of COVID-19 measures and effects on vulnerable populations.
This podcast is a collaboration with Islamic Relief Worldwide, World Vision International, Side by Side and World Evangelical Alliance, who lead PaRD’s work-streams on Health, Gender, Environments and Peace. PARD's contribution to the Geneva Peace Week 2020 is a dialogue with local and international religious actors, who are each addressing the challenges COVID-19 has had on their community. We will take you to Delhi, Birmingham, The Democractic Republic of Congo, Myanmar, and Thailand, to see what faith leaders and representatives of faith groups have done in response to COVID-19, what were their success and challenges, and what stories of hope emerged from that.
- Featuring:
- Justine Aenishaenslin, World Vision International (narrator), Kuki Rokum, Evangelical Fellowship of India Commission on Relief known as EFICOR (speaker), Shahin Ashraf, Head of Global Advocacy at Islamic Relief Worldwide (speaker), Reverend Siyani, Senior Pastor at Tabernacle of Power (speaker), Wah Wah Yeh, Program Manager at the Spirits in Education Movement, and Som-boon Chung-pram-pree or (Moo) who is the Executive Secretary for the International Network of Engaged Buddhists based in Thailand.
Contributions to the Geneva Peace Week 2020 Digital Series do not necessarily represent the views of the Geneva Peacebuilding Platform, its partners, or the partners of Geneva Peace Week.
Conversations from Geneva Peace Week are leaving Geneva this year and coming straight to you, wherever you consume your videos, podcasts, and media. Particularly as COVID-19 introduces the necessity of new modes of work and learning around the globe, people interact with new kinds of media and educational methods. We’ve asked our partner organizers to develop their peacebuilding expertise, research, and stories into digital formats (videos, podcasts, and other media) so that they can contribute to the frontline work of peace long beyond Geneva Peace Week, across geographical, cultural and temporal borders. This digital series will be free to view, listen, download, and interact with during and after GPW20. Details on how to engage with the Digital Series can be found on our website here: www.genevapeaceweek.ch.