Seminar om NGOers svære arbejde i verdens skrøbelige stater

TIME: Wednesday 25th March from 09.00 to 16.00 hours

VENUE: Roskilde University’s seminar room in the Old City Hall, Stændertorvet, Roskilde.

The seminar will be held in English and is open to everyone interested, but registration is required.

Please register before March 18th 2015 by e-mail to

[email protected]

Background

The objective of the seminar: To provide a framework for dialogue between NGO practitioners, researchers and students, who are engaged in work related to work focusing on fragile states.

The seminar will discuss the particular possibilities and challenges that present themselves for NGO projects in a fragile state context, and their relationship with the interventions and programs introduced by government agencies and international organizations and donors.

An important theme in the discussion will be projects aimed at conflict resolution and building security from below.

This will include the possibilities for collaboration with local economic actors and institutions in settings, where violent conflict, crime and ethnic politics are predominant.

Another important theme will be the possibilities for supporting civil society structures and frameworks for dialogue in situations characterized by religious radicalization and political mobilization of culture.

It is hoped that the seminar will contribute to an exchange of experience and mutual utilization of the considerable resources of insight and knowledge, which NGO practitioners, researchers and students possess between them.

PROGRAMME (as of March 2nd, 2015)

08.30-09.00: Coffee and registration of participants

09.00-09.15: Welcome and presentation of program (Preben Kaarsholm, GD-RUC)

09.15-10.30: ‘NGO work in fragile contexts: The need for conflict analysis’ (Klaus Ljørring Pedersen, Danish Demining Group)

10.30-10.45: Coffee

10.45-12.00: ‘Fragility, piracy and development in Somaliland’ (Carl-Jørgen Bindslev og Knud Vilby, FairFishing)

12.00-12.30: Discussion

12.30-13.00: Sandwich lunch

13.00-13.45: ‘International emergency aid organisations can learn a lot from the local population: Examples from Sudan and South Sudan’ (Birgitte Qvist Sørensen, Danchurchaid)

13.45-14.30: ‘Tensions related to partisan mindsets and the development of security in East Africa’ (Henrik Sonne Petersen, Danmission)

14.30-14.45: Coffee

14.45-15.30: ‘Red Cross in Mali: Challenges and synergies in linking long-term development and relief interventions’ (Signe Yde-Andersen, Danish Red Cross)

15.30-16.00: Concluding discussion

The seminar is organized by the Roskilde University Global Dynamics program – see our webpage http://www.ruc.dk/gd or like our facebookpage www.facebook.dk/globaldynamicsruc

Yderligere oplysninger hos:

Preben Kaarsholm, professor
Department of Society and Globalisation, 23.2
Roskilde University 
Tlf. 46 74 27 03, mobil: 26 29 79 20

E-mail: [email protected]