New wars, violence and changing conflict dynamics challenge the basic assumptions and principles of peace mediation practice – understood in broad terms as a spectrum of activities, ranging from high-level peace efforts, to targeted problem solving, or community based approaches. 

In the context of a changing strategic landscape, Achim Wennmann, Professor of Practice in the Interdisciplinary Programme, Nagulendran Chair in Peace Mediation, and Director of Strategic Partnerships at the Geneva Graduate Institute, will reflect on the fundamentals and frontlines of peace mediation, and on how this sector should adapt to an era of radical uncertainty. 

This event will be introduced by Marie-Laure Salles, Director of the Geneva Graduate Institute, and moderated by Itonde Kakoma, President of Interpeace, on the occasion of the Nagulendran Chair in Peace Mediation Inaugural Lecture.

The Nagulendran Chair in Peace Mediation seeks to promote peace by stimulating, in the words of Marie-Laure Salles, “reflection and practice about how the conflict resolution and peace mediation field can offer responses and new approaches to re-establish dialogue and negotiations as the primary avenue for preventing and resolving violent conflicts and building new futures.”

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