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Stockholm Forum Daily: Programme, videos and photos

Stockholm Forum Daily: Programme, videos and photos
High-level Session: Sustaining Peace in the Time of COVID-19
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The theme for the Stockholm Forum is ‘Sustaining Peace in the Time of COVID-19’. With this theme, the Forum recognizes the challenges that coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has presented. In an interdependent world, national responses to global challenges cannot be conducted in isolation. From climate change to food insecurity and pandemics, collective global action must be the solution. This is particularly true in conflict situations and fragile states. The Stockholm Forum is convened online from 11–22 May 2020.

The 2020 Virtual Stockholm Forum on Peace and Development is co-hosted by SIPRI and the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, in collaboration with partner organizations. An overview of the 2020 Forum partners is available here.

Download the Agenda at a glance here (PDF).

All public panels will be live-streamed on SIPRI's YouTube channel. Check for regular updates and stay connected via our Twitter and Facebook feeds with @SIPRIorg #SthlmForum.

Download the '2020 Stockholm Forum on Peace and Development' report (PDF)

 

Programme

Monday 11 May

14:30–15:00 Opening Session

15:15–16:30 High-level Interactive Dialogue on 'Twenty Years of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda: Lessons from the Past, a Roadmap for the Future'

In partnership with Kvinna till Kvinna and International Alert

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMjnAfdo0OQ

16:45–17:45 Strategic Dialogue on Global Trends: Violence and the Coronavirus

In partnership with the Global Registry of Violent Deaths (GReVD) Consortium

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sV-ZCA30AU0

 

Tuesday 12 May

15:00–16:30 Climate Change: The Other Crisis (online session)

Collaboration between SIPRI and the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoZj5qDF5tI

 

Wednesday 13 May

14:30–16:15 High-level Virtual Panel: Sustaining Peace in the Time of COVID-19

The virtual panel is preceded by a video message from António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations and a keynote address by Ilwad Elman, Director of Programs and Development, Elman Peace Centre.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fzxGxaO7VI

16:30–17:30 Strategic Dialogue on Global Trends: Africa First!—Igniting a Growth Revolution

In partnership with the Institute for Security Studies

https://youtu.be/nYIOPV_emi0

 

Thursday 14 May

15:00–16:00 Open Session: UN Peace Operations and COVID-19

In partnership with the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs and the Effectiveness of Peace Operations Network

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAaa2IBSW-E

 

Friday 15 May

14:00–15:15 Open Session: Youth Inclusion and the Protection of Civic Spaces

In partnership with the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation and Interpeace

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UAknB1DvXk

15.30–16:30 Shared Commitments: Operationalizing Multilateral Action for Peace and Development

In partnership with the United Nations, the World Bank, and the Cairo International Center for Conflict Resolution, Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pIUcr0UpRs

 

Monday 18 May

15:00–16:00 Open Session: Who Are the New Peacebuilding Actors and What Do They Want?

In partnership with the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs and the Geneva Graduate Institute

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOrNAESI32k

 

Tuesday 19 May

15:00–16:00 Open Session: The Wake-Up Call—Rebuilding Trust and Rewiring Institutions

In partnership with the Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V08qgFr7y_E

 

Wednesday 20 May

14:00–15:00 Online Identity Formation: A Growing Challenge to Peace

In partnership with Build-Up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbCwaM20kXQ

15:00–16:00 Stabilization Undermines Peace: An Online Debate

In partnership with Interpeace

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLUb4HQzA1U

17:30–18:30 Closing Session

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltsdBkx1gqg

 

Photo gallery: 2020 Virtual Forum

 

 

Media contacts

For information and interview requests contact Alexandra Manolache, SIPRI Communications Officer, (alexandra.manolache@sipri.org, +46 766 286 133) or Stephanie Blenckner, SIPRI Communications Director, (blenckner@sipri.org, +46 8 655 97 47).