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
With examples from his own career, Peter reviews three key steps in mediation: entering the mediation, engaging the parties, and exiting the process. He also draws attention to the role that universities can play in peace processes as spaces for mutual dialogue and brainstorming, and advocates for their use in the future.
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