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Entrepreneurship for Peace


19 novembre 2015
04:00 - 06:00 hrs. 15:00-17:00 hrs., Room XII
Geneva
, Suisse

 
Entrepreneurship for Peace
 
GEW 2015
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  • How can entrepreneurship become a resource for peaceful development?

  • How can peacebuilding approaches strengthen private sector investment in fragile states?

  • How can entrepreneurship and peacebuilding mutually reinforce the achievement of the SDGs?

 

On the occasion of the Global Entrepreneurship Week and Geneva Peace Week, the UNCTAD and the Geneva Peacebuilding Platform are organizing a symposium on Entrepreneurship for Peace.

Opening: Mr. James Zhan, Director, Division on Investment and Enterprise, UNCTAD

Moderator: Dr. Achim Wennmann, Executive Coordinator, Geneva Peacebuilding Platform

 
Panel 1: Entrepreneurship and Peace: a new pathway towards SDGs
  • Mr. Brian Ganson, Head, Africa Centre for Dispute Settlement and Extraordinary Associate Professor, University of Stellenbosch Business School, Cape Town

  • Mr. Riad al Khouri, economist and development researcher on the Middle East, Member of the International Council, Questscope, Jordan

  • Ms. Rina Alluri, Associate, Swisspeace

 
Panel 2: Evidence from Success Stories
  • Colombia: Mr. Juan Andrés Cano, Value4Chain, Bogota, winner of the Oslo Business and Peace Award - a case from PeaceNexus network

  • DR Congo: Ms. Anuarite Ketu Chikwanine, Project Manager Dynamique Femme et Mines, South Kivu, DRC

  • Uganda: Mr. Thomas Oloya’s Fisheries – a case from UNCTAD’s Empretec network

  • Gaza: Mr. Enrico Formica, UNOG, Senior Mediation Officer, Geneva

19 Nov 2015
 
Co-organisateur(s):
PeaceNexus Foundation and Friedrich Ebert Stiftung
Sponsor / funding:
PeaceNexus Foundation and Friedrich Ebert Stiftung

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