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Workshop: From Talk to Action – Advancing Understanding and Practice on Religion, Gender and Youth Inclusion in Peace and Security
Evolving from global consultations and requests, this workshop will engage participants in global conflict analysis and trajectories discussions; the exploration of the intersection between...
From Plan to Action – A Roundtable Discussion in Helsinki
“I truly believe in you and your immense influence,” UN Under-Secretary-General and Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide Adama Dieng said. The room filled with representatives of Finnish...
Religion – A Source of Conflict or a Path to Peace?
Date: Wednesday November 8, 2017 Time: 12:30-14:00 Venue: Main Hall, Ecumenical Center, 1 Route des Morillons, Geneva, Switzerland Studies on conflict data show a sharp increase in conflicts with a...
Call for Papers: Localization of Responses to Conflict in the Arab World
The aim of the conference is to examine the concept of localization of responses to crisis and conflict within the context of the Arab region. Community participation has long been recognized as a...
Call for Proposals: Elevating the Role of Women in Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism in Southeast Asia
The Global Center on Cooperative Security has announced a call for proposals from civil society organizations in Southeast Asia to undertake initiatives focused on elevating the role of women in...
A Network of Diversity: Interfaith Fellows Advancing Peace in South and Southeast Asia
The yearlong Fellowship program was designed with three in-person workshop phases, two in Thailand and one in Myanmar. As the gathering of the first in-person workshop of the Fellowship commenced in...
Healing of Memories Retreat for Peacemakers
The Institute for the Healing of Memories invites you to a Healing of Memories Retreat for Peacemakers on October 10-12 at the Stony Point Retreat Center in New York. During the retreat,...
Sustainable Technology and Technological Sustainability
A young, trendy and engaged crowd filled the sunlit room of Soutupaviljonki, the Rowing pavilion, in Helsinki on Friday afternoon the 4th of August. Located next to the historical rowing stadium...
The Network for Religious and Traditional Peacemakers Goes PeaceTech
What is PeaceTech? To put it simply, peacetech is peacebuilding and technology combined. For decades, technology has been used in order to wage war, but now, slowly a new trend leaning to the...