UNDP's Oslo Governance Centre and the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) invite you to the Nordic consultation on a joint United Nations (PBSO, DPA, DPKO and UNDP) and World Bank study which will examine the evidence base on how development policies and programs contribute to the prevention of violent conflict. The study will be presented at the opening of the United Nations General Assembly and at the Annual Meetings of the World Bank Group and International Monetary Fund in 2017.

Nordic Consultation on United Nations and World Bank Study on Development and Conflict Prevention: Open Meeting

Programme

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.

  • Please register your attendance by following this link.
  • If you have questions, please contact oslo.governance.centre@undp.org

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.