"Preventing & Stopping Violence: Effective Actions to Curtail Conflict"

The Group of 78
2023 Annual Policy Conference
September 26 - October 2, 2023

The theme of The Group of 78's 2023 Annual Policy Conference is Preventing & Stopping Violence: Effective Actions to Curtail Conflict. 

The opening of the event on Tuesday, September 26, will feature three speakers: Paul Rogers, Emeritus Professor of Peace Studies at the University of Bradford (UK) will lead off in the morning, followed in the afternoon by Kai Brand-Jacobsen, President, Peace Action Training and Research Institute of Romania, and Irvin Waller, Professor, Criminology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ottawa and Author in a hybrid virtual and in-person program. The conference will continue with virtual sessions of panels and speakers until Monday, October 2, 2023.

This impressive array of presenters will explain cases of successful peace actions and explore lessons for policymakers and practitioners to lessen the degree of conflict in the world.  With the news heavily laden with coverage of conflict and violence – community, domestic, and international – this event will focus on “what works” to stop, even prevent, the mayhem.  

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