Closing panel: Intersecting crises, joined up solutions

The scale of today’s peace and security challenges can feel deeply overwhelming. Wars are raging in Africa, Europe and the Middle East. International relations are marked by distrust. Military spending is rising. Global hunger is increasing. In 2023, 110 million people were forcibly displaced. A set of spiralling environmental crises, from climate change to biodiversity loss, is destabilizing the natural world on which human life depends.
The closing high-level plenary, ‘Intersecting crises, joined-up solutions’, will unpack how these converging crises challenge existing policy approaches. The speakers will discuss how to move from talking about joined-up solutions to delivering them on the ground. It will explore what incentives and innovations are needed to foster better cooperation across organizations, disciplines and borders. As they bring the Forum to a close, the speakers will share promising examples of what is working to inform and inspire more effective programming in the future.

Moderator:
Nathalie Chuard, Director, Geneva Centre for Security Sector Governance

Speakers:
Sanam Naraghi Anderlini, Founder and CEO, International Civil Society Action Network
Mely Caballero-Anthony, Professor of International Relations; Associate Dean (International Engagement); Head of Centre for Non-Traditional Security Studies, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University
Yero Baldeh, Director of the Transition States Coordination Office, African Development Bank
Juliana Uribe Villegas, CEO and Founder, Movilizatorio

Closing remarks:
Dan Smith, Director, SIPRI

The 2024 Stockholm Forum on Peace and Development will unpack the complex context in which humanitarian, development and peacebuilding actors are working and look at how actors are delivering on the ground in the face of these challenges. It will discuss ways to address growing mistrust and distrust between the Global North and South, and between citizens and their political representatives. It will explore how multilateral efforts—such as the Summit of the Future—could strengthen international arrangements for peace and security. And the Forum will look for possible pathways towards a more peaceful, unified future.