Watch the full Stockholm Peace Talks 2015 Speakers: – Urban Ahlin, Speaker of the Swedish Parliament – Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi, Executive Director of the Injaz Center for Professional Arab Local Governance – Peter Wallensteen, Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at Uppsala University – Jan Eliasson, Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations – Elaine Weidman-Grunewald, Vice President of CSR issues within the Ericsson Group – Forest Whitaker, Artist, Founder and CEO of the Whitaker Peace & Development Initiative, and UNESCO Special Envoy for Peace and Reconciliation – Jason ‘Timbuktu’ Diakité, Musician – Deline Revend & Tomas Amanuel, Facilitators from Tensta Musical Interludes: Adam Tensta & LaGaylia Frazier Moderator: Willy Silberstein Concluding remarks: – Scott M. Weber, Director-General of Interpeace – Tord Magnuson, Chair of Interpeace Sweden
Event: Stockholm Peace Talks
Location: Sveriges Riksdag, Stockholm
Date: 29/01/2015
Forest defines what peace means to him as the exchange of knowledge and respect. In other words, it is the idea of people working together towards a communal goal. He then illustrates the importance of human connections in peacebuilding, with examples from the Youth Peacemaker Network, a project supported by his foundation, the Whitaker Peace & Development Initiative.
Tags: Exchange, Human Connection, Knowledge, Networked Society, Peace, Peacebuilding, Respect, South Sudan,