09.00–10.00 CEST Rising tensions in a changing climate: Innovating practices and partnerships to support locally led environmental peacebuilding
Civil Society Platform for Peacebuilding and Statebuilding, Conducive Space for Peace, Conflict Prevention and Peace Forum of the Social Science Research Council, Robert Bosch Stiftung GmbH and Norwegian Institute of International Affairs
| This session shares and generates learning on the manifestation of climate stressors on security, how local peacebuilders are responding to this, and how international peacebuilding actors can best support locally led environmental peacebuilding. | Riddarsalen |
09.00–10.15 CEST Gender, climate and security in the Middle East and North Africa: Stocktaking and ways forward
Kvinna till Kvinna and Swedish Dialogue Institute for the Middle East and North Africa
| This session focuses on what roles women across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) play in managing climate-related security risks. It takes stock of challenges and identifies opportunities for further progress on women’s participation in the intersection of gender, climate and security. | Fogelström |
09.00–10.15 CEST Bridging narratives and programmes to address fragility and climate risks
ODI
| This session interrogates narratives on climate change, conflict and human security, drawing from East and West African perspectives. It explores how humanitarian, development and anticipatory action programmes can be more risk-informed by relying on knowledge from climate adaptation and disaster risk management. It discusses how to address the fragility drivers and climate vulnerabilities that reduce human security. | Online |
09.00–10.15 CEST Intersectional strategies for addressing climate-related security risks
Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation
| The United Nations, international civil society and academia are paying increasing attention to the concept of intersectionality. Intersectionality posits that people’s identities are complex and can overlap, creating compounding experiences of discrimination and oppression. Applying an intersectional lens helps practitioners identify and address security risks faced by individuals. This session brings together policymakers and practitioners to exchange experiences and tools that operationalize intersectional strategies to support populations affected by climate- related crises and conflict. | Online |
09.00–11.00 CEST Beyond backdraft for a just and peaceful transition
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
| The much needed transition to a zero carbon, green economy offers many opportunities to contribute to peace, but only if the risks of transition are understood and managed properly. Research for SIPRI’s Environment of Peace report shows that mitigation, adaptation and conservation projects must be designed properly to avoid having unintended consequences that can aggravate or create conflict, inequalities and injustices. Led by one of the authors of the Environment of Peace report, this interactive session explores the lessons learned from existing policies. It asks not only how environmental policies should seek to minimize knock-on negative societal effects, but also how they can be designed to enhance the wider resilience of communities, especially fragile contexts. | Arkaden |
09.30–10.15 CEST (Sub-) national governance of water and land-related security risks and the role of international actors
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, Water, Peace and Security
| Increased pressure on land and water resources – due to climate change, population growth and the intensification of land and water use – has reduced access to the resources needed by local communities to sustain livelihoods. Current governance systems face challenges in regulating access to land and water resources and peacefully resolving related disputes. This session unravels the governance challenges at subnational and national levels and discusses how international actors, such as regional organizations or donors, can contribute to improved natural resource governance and peaceful conflict resolution. The session is relevant for policy makers and development and peace-building actors across the climate, peace and security nexus. | Galleriet |
10.15–10.45 CEST Fireside chat with Stefan Löfven—Political will and Our Common Agenda: Limits and opportunities of multilateral action
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
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The incoming Chair of SIPRI, former Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven, is co-chair of the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Advisory Board on Effective Multilateralism. He joins us for a fireside chat about why a more inclusive and networked multilateral system is needed to address some of the most pressing challenges of today. Peace and the environment are two critical global public goods that call for changes in governance approaches to ensure a sustainable future free from large-scale violence. The current turn to nationalism, power politics, and the undermining of the rules-based international order risks resulting in an under-provision of public goods, in exploitation and tragedy of the global commons. How to amass the political will and determination to reverse this development? Speaker Stefan Löfven, Former Prime Minister of Sweden, Incoming Chair of SIPRI Governing Board |
Mässhallen |
10.30–11.30 CEST Environmental pathways for reconciliation in Yemen
European Institute of Peace
| This session explores the conflict in Yemen with a particular focus on its environmental dimensions. It puts emphasis on why it is important and indeed possible to consult in more depth about the needs, rights and perspectives of Yemenis to chart paths towards peace and reconciliation. The session is for those who seek a deeper understanding of the environmental aspects of Yemen’s conflict and ways to engage with the population more widely. | Online |
11.00–12.15 CEST Overcoming financial barriers to women’s climate security action
Kvinna till Kvinna, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute and Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs
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Women’s civil society organizations and women activists are critical in addressing climate change and insecurity. They strive to influence decision making on land, forest and water use, and play crucial roles in peacebuilding. Yet, they are facing a host of financing, normative and security barriers. According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), as of 2018 only 3 per cent of climate finance was directed at women and girls. This panel zooms in on how financing could reach those at the frontlines of climate–security action in conflict-affected and fragile settings. SpeakersRobert Egnell, Vice-Chancelor, Swedish Defence University Mary Balikungeri, Founder and Executive Director, Rwanda's Women's Network Yannick Glemarec, Executive Director, Green Climate Fund Per Olsson Fridh, Director-General, Folke Bernadotte Academy Elizabeth Spehar, Assistant Secretary-General for Peacebuilding Support, UN Petra Tötterman Andorff, Secretary General, The Kvinna Till Kvinna Foundation This session will be live streamed on SIPRI's YouTube Channel. |
Mässhallen |
11.00–12.30 CEST Mainstreaming climate and the environment in European Union civilian crisis management
Crisis Management Centre Finland and Stockholm International Peace Institute
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Adapting to the effects of climate change will require expertise and cooperation between various actors at the local and international levels. Civilian crisis management missions work in close partnerships with host governments, authorities as well as local organisations. Integrating climate and the environment into the planning and conduct of their operations may improve the overall effectiveness of these missions and strengthen the human security aspect in crisis management. The roundtable discussion focuses on questions around climate and the environment in the context of the EU’s civilian CSDP missions. Subject matter experts and civilian crisis management professionals will explore aspects and challenges that climate change and related risks will bring to civilian CSDP missions and how climate and the environment can be integrated in the new civilian CSDP Compact that is forthcoming in 2023. |
Galleriet |
13.40–14.00 CEST Spotlight presentation by Gunhild Stordalen—From code red to code green for humanity: How to transform our food systems to stem cascading risks
EAT Forum
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The accelerating climate and nature crises, the Covid-19 pandemic and the war of aggression on Ukraine are altering the global risk landscape, leaving humanity exposed to new levels of danger and new levels of vulnerability. Fundamental failures and shortcomings in our food systems sit at the heart of this landscape of cascading risk. Fixing these failures is urgent. And it needs to be prioritized if we are to stand a chance of reining in climate change, reducing pandemic risk, and facing down naked aggression and the weaponization of food. The good news? Taking concerted, transformative action is not only possible, but it can also unleash enormous dividends for peace and stability, shared prosperity, and health for people and planet. SpeakerGunhild Stordalen, Founder and Executive Chair, EAT This session will be live streamed on SIPRI's YouTube Channel. |
Mässhallen |
14.00–15.00 CEST Applying gender inclusive approaches to improve livelihoods and contribute to women’s and girls’ agency in a changing climate
CMI-Martti Ahtisaari Peace Foundation and Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
| Designed for both policymakers and practitioners, this session identifies opportunities for peacebuilding through gender inclusive livelihood interventions in fragile and conflict-affected communities impacted by climate change. | Fogelström |
14.00–15.15 CEST The regional implications of climate-security risks in Africa: The need for holistic responses
Cairo International Center for Conflict Resolution Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding
| This session discusses the challenges in addressing the regional security and development implications of climate shocks, as well as identifies entry points for advancing holistic and coordinated responses to climate-related risks in Africa. The roundtable targets regional officials, practitioners and researchers who seek to explore the regional implications of climate-related security and development risks in Africa. | Online |
14.00–15.15 CEST Enhancing conflict-sensitivity and good governance in climate change adaptation: Lessons from East Africa
Mercycorps and Saferworld
| The session brings together perspectives on peacebuilding, governance and climate change adaptation from East Africa. It centres on ways to enhance conflict sensitivity, inclusion and participation within climate adaptation. The session highlights cutting-edge examples of how climate adaptation intersects with peace, security of different communities and good governance in specific regions of East Africa. Examples from Kenya and Uganda will be connected to global debates on climate adaptation policy and practice. This roundtable is for practitioners, donors and researchers who are invested in developing and scaling practical options for strengthening conflict sensitivity and good governance within climate adaptation practice, both within East Africa and beyond. | Online |
14.00–16.20 CEST Climate finance for sustaining peace
United Nations Development Programme and Interpeace
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This two-part session examines recent trends in access to climate finance, both public and private. It compares and contrasts diverse perspectives on addressing climate-related security risks in fragile and conflict-affected contexts. The back-to-back discussions are grounded in real-world experiences and discuss actionable policy recommendations, on the one hand, to promote climate financing in fragile and conflict affected areas, and, on the other, to seek opportunities for peacebuilding through climate action. Part one explores the gaps and opportunities in leveraging co-benefits of finance for climate change adaptation and access to energy for peace and security. Part two focuses on private finance in conflict-affected and fragile contexts. Both roundtables investigate mechanisms and standards required to incentivize and regulate investments to promote climate resilience and peace. |
Riddarsalen |
14.00–16.30 CEST Mainstreaming climate and the environment in European Union civilian crisis management - Part 2
Name of the organizing partner or institution forthcoming
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Adapting to the effects of climate change will require expertise and cooperation between various actors at the local and international levels. Civilian crisis management missions work in close partnerships with host governments, authorities as well as local organizations. Integrating climate and the environment into the planning and conduct of their operations may improve the overall effectiveness of these missions and strengthen the human security aspect in crisis management. The roundtable discussion focuses on questions around climate and the environment in the context of the EU’s civilian CSDP missions. Subject matter experts and civilian crisis management professionals will explore aspects and challenges that climate change and related risks will bring to civilian CSDP missions and how climate and the environment can be integrated in the new civilian CSDP Compact that is forthcoming in 2023. |
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15.15–16.30 CEST Development challenges and solutions in the environment, climate, peace and security nexus
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency and United States Agency for International Development
| This session brings together development, environmental, climate and peacebuilding actors to discuss the changing landscape around the environment, climate, peace and security nexus. It seeks to identify common challenges, best practices, and broadly applicable lessons on how to enable an environment of peace. By identifying commonalities between different experiences, speakers and participants can develop ideas and opportunities to better address the environment, climate, peace and security nexus. | Fogelström |
15.15–16.30 CEST Leaving no one behind: Climate-security risks and adaptation in conflict-affect communities
Geneva Call and United Nations University Centre for Policy Research
| Climate change effects can enhance the risk of violent conflict. Armed conflict, in turn, exacerbates environmental degradation which can intensify climate change. How can the international community break this cycle to protect millions of vulnerable people? This session examines how individuals and armed groups respond to climate change and environmental degradation. How can policy and programming address climate change risks in armed conflict contexts? How can they engage armed groups to protect civilian populations from both the effects of climate change and violence? | Online |
15.15–16.30 CEST Invaluable things money can't buy: Revisiting security sector reform after Afghanistan, Mali and Somalia
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, Cordaid and Strategic Capacity Group
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Since the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban and the coups in Mali, the concept and implementation of SSR run the risk of being synonymous to failure. Both cases challenge the applicability of SSR. On Somalia the jury is still out. With today’s world becoming more complex, due to increasing great power competition, as well as the impact of non-traditional security challenges such as terrorism and climate change, the role of SSR in providing security and justice in fragile and conflict affected countries also becomes more challenging. SSR was originally introduced as a bridge between issues of governance, justice and security. Yet, over the last decades, practice focused increasingly on security and technical assistance in countries with ongoing or ‘hot’ armed conflict. Whereas SSR is an important tool for sustainable stability, also with regard to ongoing security crises, it is important to focus on people-oriented justice and security in order to have a long-term impact. To achieve this, SSR needs to better integrate these new security challenges. To better grasp the reality on the ground, and the push and pull factors that lead to implementation challenges a practitioner perspective is essential. |
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16.30–17.00 CEST Fireside chat with Franck Bousquet: The new International Monetary Fund fragility and conflict strategy in a changing climate
Name of the organizing partner or institution forthcoming
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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has adopted its first ever strategy for fragile and conflict-affected situations (FCS). This groundbreaking initiative was taken to enhance the fund´s efforts to provide well-tailored and longer-term support to vulnerable countries to achieve macroeconomic stability, strengthen resilience, and promote sustainable inclusive growth. In this fireside chat, Franck Bousquet, Deputy Director at the IMF, will share his insights and reflections on how IMF engagement under the FCS strategy could tackle fragility and conflict resulting from climate change and environmental degradation, including challenges and opportunities emerging in societies´ transition towards fossil free societies. SpeakerFranck Bousquet, Deputy Director, International Monetary Fund |
Mässhallen |
17.00–18.30 CEST Closing panel: Climate security and development beyond the Stockholm Forum
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute and Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs
PanellistsDan Smith, Director, SIPRI Ahmed Abdel-Latif, Ambassador, Director General, Cairo International Center for Conflict Resolution, Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding Chibeze Ezekiel, Executive Coordinator, Strategic Youth Network for Development Johanna Lissinger-Peitz, Ambassador, Head of Stockholm +50 Secretariat Kasha Sequoia Slavner, Documentary Filmmaker, Peace and Climate Activist The closing panel takes stock of lessons learned over the three days of the Forum and links innovative policy responses coming out of discussions to the objectives of the Stockholm+50 conference. The panel provides guidance on how questions of climate, security and development can be taken up at +50. Panellists further lay out how key stakeholders can work together to craft an agenda, utilizing the Stockholm Forum and Stockholm+50 with a view towards COP27 and COP28. Concluding remarksJan Eliasson, Chair, SIPRI Governing Board The closing panel will be live streamed on SIPRI's YouTube Channel. |
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