Date
CEST
Location
Schedule
Tuesday, April 27, 2021
High-Level Plenary: EU Peace Mediation in Times of Uncertainty. New policy framework and capacity to face new challenges.
David McAllister
Committee on Foreign Affairs, European Parliament, Chair
Patricia Llombart Cussac
Delegation of the European Union in Colombia, Head of Delegation/Ambassador
Hilde Hardeman
European Commission's Service for Foreign Policy Instrument, Director, Head of Service
Pawel Herczynski
CSDP-CR, European External Action Service, Managing Director
Sonya Reines-Djivanides
European Peacebuilding Liaison Office (EPLO), Executive Director
Rene van Nes
European External Action Service, Head of Division, Conflict Prevention and Mediation Support (ISP.2)
Response to the High-Level Plenary from the Members of the EU Mediation Community of Practice’s Steering Committee
Jonathan Cohen
Conciliation Resources
Emma Leslie
Centre for Peace & Conflict Studies
Vasu Gounden
ACCORD, Founder and Executive Director
Luxshi Vimalarajah
Berghof Foundation
Bernardo Venturi
Agency for Peacebuilding
Laurent Goetschel
swisspeace
Antje Herrberg
European External Action Service
Interactive recap and end of the day
Antje Herrberg
European External Action Service
Roberta Dirosa
European External Action Service
Miguel Varela
mediatEUr/Conciliation Resources Europe
Wednesday, April 28, 2021
Morning news: interactive plenary session
Antje Herrberg
European External Action Service
Miguel Varela
mediatEUr/Conciliation Resources Europe
Roberta Dirosa
European External Action Service
Addressing Climate change, environmental degradation and conflicts: how can the EU as a peacemaker respond?
Florian Krampe
Director of Climate Change and Risk Programme, SIPRI
Mariko Peters
European External Action Service, Senior Peace and Conflict Advisor, Conflict Prevention and Mediation Support (ISP2)
Silvia Migali
EU Joint Research Center
Olivia Lazard
Peace in Design Consulting Ltd. and Carnegie Europe, Environmental Peacemaking and Mediation Expert | Director | Visiting Researcher
Douglas Carpenter
EU Pool of Mediators, Member with a focus on natural resources
Dr. Simon J. Mason
Center for Security Studies at ETH Zurich, Head of the Mediation Support Team
Antje Herrberg
European External Action Service
Interactive recap
Antje Herrberg
European External Action Service
Roberta Dirosa
European External Action Service
Miguel Varela
mediatEUr/Conciliation Resources Europe
Fake news, real wars: tools and methods to prevent and mitigate disinformation
Jonathan Harlander
Crisis Management Initiative, Senior Project Manager on Digital Peacemaking
Khadeja Ramali
Social media researcher
David Lanz
swisspeace, Co-Head of the Mediation Programme
Jurgis Vilčinskas
European External Action Service, Deputy Head of Division, Strategic Communications and Information Analysis
Interactive recap
Antje Herrberg
European External Action Service
Miguel Varela
mediatEUr/Conciliation Resources Europe
Roberta Dirosa
European External Action Service
Geopolitics as a challenge to EU Peace Mediation – Perspective on Latin America [Parallel Session]
Katariina Leinonen
European External Action Service
Philipp Lustenberger
swisspeace, Co-Head Mediation Program
Sergio Jaramillo Caro
European Institute of Peace (EIP), Senior Advisor. Former Colombian High Commissioner for Peace (2012-2016)
Renata Segura
International Crisis Group, Deputy Director, Latin America and the Caribbean
Juan Garrigues Tena
Dialogue Advisory Group, Deputy Director
Francisco Diez
Senior Mediation Advisor, UN
Mediation and/in R2P [Parallel Session]
Alice Wairimu Nderitu
United Nations, Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide
Karen Smith
United Nations, Special Adviser on Responsibility to Protect
Christian Leffler
European External Action Service, Former EEAS Deputy Secretary General and EU R2P focal point
Simon Adams
Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, Executive Director
Kate Ferguson
Protection Approaches, Co-Founding Director
Samantha Capicotto
Auschwitz Institute for the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities
Roberta Dirosa
European External Action Service
Interactive recap and end of the day
Antje Herrberg
European External Action Service
Roberta Dirosa
European External Action Service
Miguel Varela
mediatEUr/Conciliation Resources Europe
Thursday, April 29, 2021
Morning news: interactive plenary session
Antje Herrberg
European External Action Service
Miguel Varela
mediatEUr/Conciliation Resources Europe
Roberta Dirosa
European External Action Service
Prospects and challenges of EU/European mediation in the Gulf region
Sheikha Najla Al Qasimi, PhD
Dubai Public Policy Center, Senior Researcher | Former UAE Ambassador in Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Portugal
Dina Esfandiary
International Crisis Group, Senior Advisor
Oliver Wils
Berghof Foundation, Senior Advisor and Head of the Advisory Team
Antje Herrberg
European External Action Service
Peter Semneby
Sweden's Special Envoy for Yemen
Rafat Al-Akhali
DeepRoot Consulting, Co-Founder
Gabriel Munuera Vinals
European External Action Service, Head of Division MENA 4
Abdullah Baabood
Waseda University in Tokyo | Centre for Gulf Studies at Qatar University, Guest Professor | Former Director
Interactive recap and break
Miguel Varela
mediatEUr/Conciliation Resources Europe
Antje Herrberg
European External Action Service
Roberta Dirosa
European External Action Service
Lessons from supporting peace mediation in the Horn of Africa
Vasu Gounden
ACCORD, Founder and Executive Director
Benjamin Crampton
Office of the European Union Special Representative for the Horn of Africa, Chief of Staff
Rene van Nes
European External Action Service, Head of Division, Conflict Prevention and Mediation Support (ISP.2)
Hanna Tetteh
UN Special Representative of the Secretary General to the AU
Abdul Mohammed
AU High Level Implementation Panel for Sudan and South Sudan, Chief of Staff
Dr. Monica Juma
Kenya’s Defence Cabinet Secretary
Alex Rondos
EU Special Representative for the Horn of Africa
Evening news, recap and closing
Antje Herrberg
European External Action Service
Miguel Varela
mediatEUr/Conciliation Resources Europe
Roberta Dirosa
European External Action Service