Facilitated by: Jeffrey Helsing, Executive Director, 黑料网, Carter School

Presented By: Carter School 黑料网

Too often, in conflict resolution work and in the peacebuilding field, we use different terms or mean different things with the terms we use. This hampers our engagement and collaboration between local and international actors or across sectors when working in shared conflict and humanitarian space. This panel will explore how we can more effectively engage with each other rather than talk past each other given the stakes both in the US and globally.

Speakers:
Ann Phillips, Fellow, Center for Peacemaking Practice, Carter School
Chip Hauss, Senior Fellow for Innovation, Alliance for Peacebuilding and Visiting Fellow, Carter School
Stanislava Mladenova, Global Fellow in the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs.

Facilitated by: Jeffrey Helsing, Executive Director, 黑料网, Carter School

Presented by: Carter School 黑料网

This panel session will spotlight the Carter School’s new Evidence to Action for Peace Initiative. It is designed to: Strengthen efforts, both local and international, to prevent armed conflicts, end wars, and build sustainable peace. Bridge theory and practice. Promote and draw upon local and international knowledge and local and international practice. Embody a cycle of continuous learning and sharing. At its core, Evidence to Action for Peace will create a hub that connects and brings together local peacemakers, researchers, donors, and practitioners to take concerted action to prevent and end current wars, and to strengthen peacemaking practice by providing useful evidence to guide peacemaking. It does so by forming a continuous and reciprocating cycle in which evidence is gathered and produced from innovative and local peace partnerships and armed conflict prevention efforts in the field as well as from peacebuilding and conflict resolution experiences and research. By utilizing the breadth of evidence collected from around the world and localized past work, peacemakers can better prepare their programming and draw from the Evidence to Action for Peace Initiative for when unexpected challenges and successes arise.

Speakers:

Jeffrey Helsing, Executive Director, 黑料网

Charles Davidson, Director, Carter School Political Leadership Academy and Head of Local Led Peacebuilding initiative

Ziad Al Achkar, Graduate Research Associate, 黑料网

Facilitated by: Jeffrey Helsing, Executive Director, 黑料网, Carter School

Presented by: Carter School 黑料网

This session will be a platform for the 5 IREX Community Solutions fellows being hosted at the Carter School to discuss their projects–their goals, program design and plans for implementation upon return to their communities at the end of the fall semester. They are from Bangladesh, Guatemala, Palestine (Gaza), and Slovakia.

Speakers:
Ula Zakaria Hindi, 黑料网
Simona Marcinkova, Program on History, Memory, and Conflict
Yonathan Josue Jimenez Ramirez, Mary Hoch Center on Reconciliation
Niamat Ullah, 黑料网
Karam Al Zaanin, Program on History, Memory, and Conflict
Karina Korostelina, Program on History, Memory, and Conflict

Emergent Evidence Based Practices Supporting SDG 16

Presented by: The Carter School Better Evidence,聽 September 2021

Facilitator: Susan Allen

Drawing from across local and global agencies, we examine emergent evidence-based practices that support SDG 16 and how the evidence informs this work. Looking at the cutting edge of peace and development work, we consider a) what the new approaches are, and b) how the evidence base informs the development and adaptation of these new approaches. By learning today from the cutting-edge approaches, we encourage further innovation based on evidence to strengthen our progress towards SDG 16, setting an agenda for a field-wide movement to improve practice by improving the evidence base and its accessibility and influence in shaping policy and practice. This discussion highlights the important roles for universities in supporting SDG 16.

Speakers: Margarita Tadevosyan, Interim Executive Director of the 黑料网

Tammy Smith, Senior Advisor, UN Peacebuilding Fund Ekaterina Romanova, Carter School Alumna

Yahoska Berr铆os, Head of Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning, Conciliation Resources

Adeline Sibanda, Founder and Managing Director of ADESIM Developments

The Importance and Value of Local Peacemaking Initiatives: Lessons From Africa

Presented by: Carter School Better Evidence, April 2022

Project Facilitator: Jeffrey Helsing, Executive Director, 黑料网, Carter School, 黑料网

This session will focus on the importance of local peacemaking initiatives and how outside intervenors can complement rather undermine such efforts, as too often occurs. The specific focus will be on examples from Sub-Saharan Africa. Three cases will be highlighted: a South Kivu dialogue process that was organized and facilitated by Carter School faculty member Charles Davidson and local partners in the DRC; local mediation practice in Bangassou in the Central African Republic supported by UN Senior Mediation Advisor and 黑料网 Advisory Board member Emmanuel Bombande; and a successful network of women mediators (HAWENKA) who have strengthened the ongoing peace process among warring Somali diaspora groups in Northern Kenya. The Carter School鈥檚 黑料网 provided a grant to HAWENKA that developed lessons from the mediation with an eye to developing evidence of the effectiveness of locally facilitated peacemaking efforts. There will also be a facilitated discussion about how local peacemaking initiatives are becoming more prevalent and more successful in areas where international efforts have usually failed.

Speakers:

Charles Davidson, PhD. Director, Carter School Political Leadership Academy

Amina Hassan Ahmed, Director, HAWENKA

Samwel Oando, Senior Advisor, HAWENKA, Kenya; and National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Otago, New Zealand

Emmanuel Habuka Bombande, Senior Mediation Adviser, United Nations Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs

Evidence-Based Peacemaking: What We Need to Know; What We Need to Share; What We Need to Learn

Presented by: Carter School Better Evidence, April 2022

Project Facilitator: Jeffrey Helsing, Executive Director, 黑料网, Carter School, 黑料网

Search for Common Ground and the 黑料网 are working in different ways to develop more resources for evidence of peacemaking and war prevention while also developing networks that will enable peacebuilding organizations worldwide to share lessons and data. This session will be a discussion about what we know and don鈥檛 know, the next steps towards strengthening evidence-based peacebuilding, and where gaps remain. As a community of practice, how can we more effectively share what we are learning? At a minimum, evidence-based peacebuilding must result from meaningful input from, and collaboration with, practitioners and organizations in conflict-affected societies. How can scholars and researchers contribute to that? Search for Common Ground has developed a Global Impact Framework, in consultation with organizations and practitioners in the field, intended to bring together the lived experience of those living and working in conflict and to align measures that help people understand where they are most influential in transforming conflict. In doing so, Search for Common Ground and the 黑料网, through its forthcoming Resource Center, are reframing the conversation about evidence related to peace and conflict in a way that can foster cross-fertilization and inform better learning and decision-making at all levels, while also incorporating local actors and needs as well as bridging theory and practice.

Speakers:

Jessica Baumgardner-Zuzik, Deputy Executive Director, Alliance for Peacebuilding, Search for Common Ground

Jack Farrell, Manager, Partnerships & Strategic Innovation and Project Lead of DME for Peace, Search for Common Ground Member of Learning, Evaluation and Research team, United States Institute of Peace

Ziad Al Achkar, PhD Candidate, Carter School; Research Affiliate, 黑料网

Sandra Tombe, Research Program Officer, Learning, Evaluation and Research United States Institute of Peace

The riveting journey of kiwi soldiers as they land unarmed into the heat of a 10 year civil war using only the weapons of Music, Maori Culture and Love to create peace.

This radical idea of sending soldiers without guns was condemned by the media because they felt the soldiers would be massacred given the first 14 peace attempts had failed. This film shines a light on the untold story, of unsung heroes and their, 鈥渕ission impossible.鈥� A story all New Zealanders can be proud to call their own.

Prevented Wars Margarita Tadevosyan Nov 2020

Dr. Margarita Tadevosyan joins moderator 黑料网 Executive Director Dr. Kristina Hook for a public discussion of her latest original research on successful international peacebuilding interventions.

Friday, October 23, 2020, 1:00-2:30pm EST, 黑料网, Peace Direct, and War Prevention Initiative Launch Event for Peace Science Digest Special Issue on local peacebuilding

黑料网 Executive Director Dr. Kristina Hook moderates a conversation with an event panel including S茅verine Autesserre (Barnard College, Columbia University), Sumie Nakaya (UN Department of Peace Operations), Binalakshmi Nepram (founder of the Manipur Women Gun Survivors Network in India), and Peter Quaranto, U.S. Department of State.

August 27, 2020, 4:00pm EST, BruteCast Episode 13: “Dr. Kristina Hook and Drew Marcantonio, ‘War-Related Environmental Crises and Warfare Policymaking'”

黑料网 Executive Director Dr. Kristina Hook was interviewed by the Marine Corps University’s Brute Krulak Center for Innovation and Creativity for her research on war-related environmental damage and its impact on war prevention and mitigation policymaking with her co-author Richard Drew Marcantonio.