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
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Mr. Brian Ganson, Head, Africa Centre for Dispute Settlement and Extraordinary Associate Professor, University of Stellenbosch Business School, Cape Town
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Mr. Riad al Khouri, economist and development researcher on the Middle East, Member of the International Council, Questscope, Jordan
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Ms. Rina Alluri, Associate, Swisspeace
Panel 2: Evidence from Success Stories
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Colombia: Mr. Juan Andrés Cano, Value4Chain, Bogota, winner of the Oslo Business and Peace Award - a case from PeaceNexus network
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DR Congo: Ms. Anuarite Ketu Chikwanine, Project Manager Dynamique Femme et Mines, South Kivu, DRC
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Uganda: Mr. Thomas Oloya’s Fisheries – a case from UNCTAD’s Empretec network
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Gaza: Mr. Enrico Formica, UNOG, Senior Mediation Officer, Geneva
