Join Professor Joanna Lewis in a discussion with four senior experts and practitioners in global conflict resolution.They will explore new thinking and the challenges in international norms, culturally sensitive approaches, women, peace and security agenda, and neuro and behavioural science. Can we find synergies to strengthen approaches? What role could and should new thinking play in contemporary peacebuilding processes?
The panel of speakers includes Mark Muller KC, Professor in Practice at the LSE, and Eldridge Adolfo, Senior Mediation Advisor to Folke Bernadotte Academy (FBA) will explain how the International Norms Project (a unique collaboration between LSE, FBA and Uppsala University) brought together a remarkable group of Islamic Scholars, Muslim political transitional leaders and international peace practitioners over four years. Together, they explored synergies between early Islam and international norms to produce, as part of an iterative process the first Guide to Peacemaking Using Islamic Principles to assist international conflict resolvers and peacemakers. Joining them will be Monica McWilliams, Professor Emeritus at Ulster University. She will explore emerging normative trends and challenges in the field of Women, Peace and Security. She will also consider how this new guide might assist contemporary peace-making frameworks. Finally, Tim Phillips, founder of NGO Beyond Conflict, shares new insights into how brain and behavioural science can aid peace-making approaches, including through the deployment of norms and sacred values. The panel will be chaired by Professor Joanna Lewis, Director of WPS Centre, Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa, LSE. Author of Women of the Somali Diaspora (Hurst, 2022).
Download a copy of the Guide to Peacemaking Using Islamic Principles here.
This public event is free and open to all but registration is required.
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Contact s.spasenoska@lse.ac.uk if you have any queries.
The event is co-sponsored by FLIA and FBA.