On the occasion of the 12th Session of the UNITAR Division for Peace Advisory Board Meeting, UNITAR held a virtual conference on 20 January 2021, which brought together the protagonists of the inspiring stories below and high-level experts in peace and security.
The discussion focused on:
- examples of real challenges that each of the story protagonists faced in their peacebuilding/ humanitarian/ development work as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic;
- innovative tools and approaches used to deal with these challenges and continue capacity building for peace;
- possible ways to address existing capacity gaps and successfully adjust to the “new normal” and build back better through stronger partnerships and multi-sectoral collaboration.
Moderator: Mr. Alan Doss, Special Advisor and Former President of the Kofi Annan Foundation, Former Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, UNITAR Division for Peace Advisory Board Member
Keynote speaker: Mr. Fabrizio Hochschild-Drummond, UN Under-Secretary-General, Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on the Commemoration of the United Nations 75th Anniversary
Story protagonists:
- Ms. Orsolya Bader, Digital Networks & Society Department, Telecommunication Development Bureau, International Telecommunication Union; Participant in the Master’s programme in Humanitarian Action and Peacebuilding by UNITAR/ Oxford Brookes University (OBU)
- Mr. Hisham Al-Omeisy, Conflict analyst, Yemen; Alumni of the Master’s programme in Conflict, Peace and Security by UNITAR/ Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)
- Ms. Cristina and Ms. Leidy Ríos, Heads of Corporación Génesis, an NGO dedicated to peacebuilding in Colombia
- Mr. Ali Chahine, Peacebuilding consultant and facilitator in MENA region, UNITAR Mediation and Conflict Analysis Trainer
- Mr. Rohullah Azizi, Curriculum Adviser at Afghanistan Legal Education Project (ALEP), Appeals Representative, Fulbright Scholar
*Click here to watch the full recording.*The video in English and Spanish as well as a written summary of the discussion will follow in February.
If you have comments or questions related to the campaign or the online discussion, as well as ideas of new projects and partnerships that can help us build back better when it comes to building capacities for peace, contact us at ptp@unitar.org.
How to register
Watch the recording at https://youtu.be/knKXsErOVsU