08:00-08:30 | Registration |
08:30-9:00 | Welcome address | Video
Speakers Kunal Sen | Director, UNU-WIDER *Jutta Urpilainen | European Commissioner for International Partnerships Katja Ahlfors | Director, Centre for Peace Mediation, MFA Finland Patricia Justino | Senior Research Fellow, UNU-WIDER |
09:00-10:30 | Panel discussion | Peacebuilding challenges and policy solutions | Video
Moderator: David Malone | Rector, United Nations University
Panelists Severine Autesserre | Professor & Chair of Political Science, Barnard College, Columbia University Speciosa Wandira-Kazibwe | African Union and former Vice President of Uganda Janne Taalas | Director, CMI — Martti Ahtisaari Peace Foundation Mirko Manzoni | Personal Envoy of the UN Secretary-General to Mozambique |
10:30-11:00 | Coffee break |
11:00-11:30 | Fireside chats (in the Network Cafe)
Andrea Ruggeri and Lars-Eric Cederman, Professor of International Conflict Research, ETH Zurich | Borders, nationalism and conflict |
Anastasia Shesterinina and Severine Autesserre, Professor & Chair of Political Science, Barnard College, Columbia University | Bottom-up peacebuilding and the challenges of today's peace industry |
11:30-13:00 | Parallel 1.1 | Video Sustaining peace and preventing violence
Chair: Neha Sanghrajka | Office of the SG Personal Envoy to Mozambique
Presenters Pedro Vicente | NOVA Lisbon | Presentation Rob Blair | Brown | Presentation Aysegul Kayaoglu | Istanbul Technical University Thomas Gautier | Kiel | Presentation
Discussant *Henk-Jan Brinkman | Chief of Peacebuilding Strategy and Partnerships, PBSO | | Parallel 1.3 | Video Aid, democracy and development
Chair: Janne Taalas | Director, CMI — Martti Ahtisaari Peace Foundation
Presenters Eric Werker | Simon Fraser University | Presentation Anke Hoeffler | University of Konstanz | Presentation Henrik Urdal | PRIO | Presentation Rachel Gisselquist | UNU-WIDER | Presentation
Discussant Tuija Brax | Director, Rule of Law Center, University of Helsinki | Parallel 1.4 | Video Forced migration Joint session with the World Bank
Chair: Lucia Hanmer | Lead Economist, World Bank
Presenters Isabel Ruiz | Oxford | Presentation Sophie Scharlin-Pettee | Oxford | Presentation *Eliana Rubiano-Matulevich | World Bank Ana María Ibáñez | IDB | Presentation
Discussant Sam Gundry | IOM |
13:00-14:00 | Lunch |
14:00-15:30 | Parallel 2.1 | Video Peacebuilding challenges Joint session with UNU-CPR
Chair: David Passarelli | Director, UNU-CPR
Presenters Sarah von Billerbeck | Co-Director, UN and Global Order Programme, University of Reading | Presentation Andrea Ruggeri | Oxford | Presentation Louise Bosetti | UN Verification Mission in Colombia | Presentation Bethany Ericson | Myanmar Education Consortium
Discussant Adam Day | UNU-CPR | Parallel 2.2 | Video Armed group dynamics
Chair: Katja Ahlfors | Director, Centre for Peace Mediation, MFA Finland
Presenters *Austin Wright | Chicago | Presentation Tarila Marclint Ebiede | CORN West Africa *Janet I. Lewis | George Washington University Dan Watson | ACLED and Sussex | Presentation
Discussant Salvador Forquilha | Director, Institute for Social and Economic Studies, Mozambique | Parallel 2.3 | Video Protests and social movements
Chair: Stefano Costalli | Professor, University of Florence
Presenters Francesco Iacoella | UNU-MERIT | Presentation *Alcinda Honwana | UN DESA Division for Public Institutions and Digital Government Daniel Silverman | CMU | Presentation Zachariah Mampilly | CUNY | Presentation
Discussant Killian Clarke | Georgetown | Parallel 2.4 | Video Economic development and recovery
Chair: Marcela Melendez | Chief Economist, UNDP LAC
Presenters Irma Clots-Figueras | Kent | Presentation Leandro Elia | Marche Polytechnic University | Presentation Guillermo Kreiman | Oxford | Presentation John Hoddinott | Cornell | Presentation
Discussant Jesse Wood | WFP |
15:30-16:00 | Coffee and poster session | Organised jointly with CORN West Africa |
16:00-18:00 | Panel discussion hosted by the Households in Conflict Network | 20 years of micro-level analysis of violent conflict: what next? | Video
Co-chair: Tilman Brück | Director, International Security and Development Center, Berlin Co-chair: Patricia Justino | Senior Research Fellow, UNU-WIDER
Panelists Tony Addison | Professor of Economics, University of Copenhagen Stathis Kalyvas | Gladstone Professor of Government, University of Oxford Ana María Ibáñez | IDB | Presentation Philip Verwimp | Professor of Development Economics, Universite Libre de Bruxelles |
19:00-20:30 | Opening dinner at City Hall hosted by City of Helsinki Guides will meet participants at 18.30 in front of the Marina Congress center to walk to venue (1 km) |