Food and Peace: Evidence, Challenges and Opportunities
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About this event
The Nobel Peace Center and World Food Programme (WFP) invite you to the high-level dialogue Food and Peace: Evidence, Challenges and Opportunities on Thursday 20 May 2021 14:00-15:00 CET, streamed live from the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo.
Exploring the relationship between food security and peace, this dialogue gathers peace researchers, practitioners and policy makers to discuss current evidence of the link between food security and peace as well as outline efforts to expand the evidence base and devise a systematic method to measure peace contributions.
Speakers:
Betty Bigombe, Special Envoy to the Peace Process in South Sudan and former Minister, Uganda
Comfort Ero, Interim Vice President and Africa Program Director, International Crisis Group
Dan Smith, Director, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)
Valerie Guarnieri, Assistant Executive Director, UN World Food Programme
Steven Were Omamo, Representative and Country Director, UN World Food Programme, Ethiopia
The event will be livestreamed on YouTube and can be accessed here.
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Organizer World Food Programme
Organizer of Food and Peace: Evidence, Challenges and Opportunities
The United Nations World Food Programme - saving lives in emergencies and changing lives for millions through sustainable development. WFP works in more than 80 countries around the world, feeding people caught in conflict and disasters, and laying the foundations for a better future.