New Actors and the Changing Field of Peacemaking and Peacebuilding

OxPeace Annual Day-Conference, exploring new issues and actors (including A!) in peacemaking and peacebuilding worldwide. Featuring Roger Mac Ginty, professor in Defence, Development and Diplomacy in the School of Government and International Affairs, Durham University, who works on peace and conflict, particularly on the intersection between top-down and bottom-up approaches to peacemaking. He is interested in everyday peace and the different ways in which this might be captured. He co-directs the Everyday Peace Indicators project (with Pamina Firchow) and edits the Taylor and Francis journal Peacebuilding (with Oliver Richmond). He also edits the “Rethinking Political Violence” book series. Also featuring Nasreen Elsaim, young Sudanese activist and expert in energy and climate policy, recently chair of UN Secretary-General Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change, Oxford’s Sam Daws on AI in relation to peacemaking and peacebuilding; and a range of further speakers, and time for interaction and discussion. Undergraduates, Postgrads, academic staff, practitioners, policy makers and all are welcome.