Advancing and Building the Peacebuilding Field: Status Quo No More

As global leaders prepare to gather for the United Nations General Assembly and the Summit of the Future, the world continues to experience record-breaking levels of fragility and violent conflict. How can the peacebuilding community urgently mobilize the public, policymakers, private, bilateral, and multilateral donors, the private sector, and others to engage meaningfully as conflict prevention champions? This session will explore how the peacebuilding community can make the case and take steps to ensure decisionmakers prioritize conflict prevention and peacebuilding to begin to reverse these rising violent conflict trends.

Moderator:

Liz Hume, Executive Director, AfP

Panelists:

Ambassador George E. Moose, Acting President, USIP

Shamil Idriss, CEO, Search for Common Ground

Peter van Sluijs, Peacebuilding and Conflict Prevention, Expert; Coordinator, Civil Society Platform for Peacebuilding and Statebuilding