Workshop: Sustainable peace and systems thinking (Copenhagen)

The recent United Nation Secretary General’s report on sustaining peace speaks to an urgent crisis of complexity in global affairs, where a wide assortment of nonstate actors wields more political power than ever before. In response, policymakers are calling for more holistic or systemic approaches to peace and development. However, these responses often only give lip service to such approaches, with very little changed in terms of how actors change the way they engage in “the system”. The dominance of projectized approaches and organization silos means that while there may be a growing recognition of the need for a systems approach, very little is done to translate this recognition into action. In an effort to reflect on these challenges as a network – and also to get an understanding of practical tools and experiences relating to the application of systems thinking to peacebuilding – the network will host a working lunch on Tuesday 3rd of September. The workshop will be led by Pedro Portela, a systems-thinking expert who has experience on working on systems thinking and peacebuilding in South Sudan and elsewhere. Read more about him here.

Target group: Practitioners who (wish to) work with systemic approaches to peace and development

Place: Room 6 Conference Room, Oxfam IBIS, Vesterbrogade 2b (Lunch will be provided)

Direct link for sign up here.