10:00 - Introduction and welcome: Kristian Berg Harpviken, Director, PRIO and member of the Advisory Committee for the study, and Sarah Lister, Director, UNDP Oslo Governance Centre
10:15 - Session 1: Overview: the purpose, analytical framework and structure of the study.
Speakers:
Alexandre Marc, Chief Specialist, Fragility, Conflict and Violence, World Bank
Stephen Jackson, Chief, Policy and Planning, UN DPA
Discussants:
Indra de Soysa, Professor, Department of Sociology and Political Science, NTNU
Karl Ove Moene, Professor, Centre for the Study of Equality, Social Organization, and Performance, UiO (tbc)
Moderator: Håvard Mokleiv Nygård, Senior Researcher, PRIO
Presentation by Study Director, Alexandre Marc, Chief Specialist, Fragility, Conflict and Violence, World Bank, followed by discussants and open discussion.
11:45 - Coffee
12:00 - Session 2: Operationalising the study: challenges of policy and practice. Presentation of key challenges and discussion
Discussants:
Gary Milante, Program Director, Security and Development Programme, SIPRI
Eirin Mobekk, Policy Director, Fragile States, Norad
Moderator: Sarah Lister, Director, UNDP Oslo Governance Centre
13:00 - Close of sessions. Sandwich lunch available.
We look forward to seeing you!
Sarah Lister, Director, UNDP Oslo Governance Centre and
Kristian Berg Harpviken, Director, PRIO
Partners’ meeting
Please note that this part of the event is by invitation only.
14:00 - 15:30
Opening remarks:
Stephen Jackson, Chief of Policy and Planning, UNDPA
Issues for discussion:
Alexandre Marc, Chief Specialist, Fragility, Conflict and Violence, World Bank.
Chair:
Sarah Lister, Director, UNDP Oslo Governance Centre
The partners’ meeting includes policy-makers from key units working on conflict and fragility in donor governments of Nordic countries. The meeting is an occasion to raise and discuss the main policy implications from the joint UN-WB study on violent conflict prevention and development.
The format will be a moderated discussion.
Researchers’ Meeting
Please note that this part of the event is by invitation only.
21 October 2016, 10:00 - 13:00
The researchers’ meeting includes scholars and researchers from think tanks, universities and research institutions from Nordic countries. The meeting is an occasion to deepen the discussion from the previous day on the study’s analytical framework, main research components, and recommendations for policy.
10:00 - Analytical framework
11:15 - Coffee
11:30 - 13:00 - Responses and operationalization
Each session will start with a short presentation from the Study team, and invited responses, before a moderated discussion.