Friday 10 November 2023
Roundtable
Not so bleak: Lessons learned from innovative approaches to peacebuilding
Peacebuilding and post-conflict reconstruction are often hard to measure and are overlooked for bleaker narratives and headlines. This session is devoted to inclusive, sustainable, and innovative solutions for a broad set of victims of war, from women, refugees, and asylum seekers to victims of arbitrary detentions and torture to name a few. Projects in the Middle East, the North Caucasus, Ukraine, DRC, and Mozambique are among this year’s selected projects showcasing creative solutions to adapt to their context and tackle post-war complexities, from accountability to restoring war victims’ social capital. Using network building, creative anti-corruption campaigns, the use of award-winning technology and much more to the benefit of victims’ inclusive reintegration and reconciliation, these projects give us much-needed solutions to reconstructive action in a fraught world.
Hilde Hardeman
Director-General, Publications Office of the European Union
Moderator
Christian Ritscher
Special Adviser and Head, UNITAD
Speaker
Hani Alsafadi
Syria Programs Coordinator, SAWA for Development and Aid
Speaker
Daniel Gebreselassie Woldeyohanes
President, Justice for all
Speaker
Mohammed Faisal Abdulaziz Ahmed
Executive Director, Mwatana for Human Rights
Speaker
Svitlana Lukiachenko
Vice Head of the Board, Power of the future (GIZ Civil Peace Service)
Speaker
Shayda Hessami
Founder and General Director, Aide Humanitaire et Journalisme
Speaker
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