Panel public - Conflits sur l'eau, les terres et la nourriture : prévention et réponses
Des politiques et pratiques variées qui combinent des approches du développement, de la consolidation de la paix et des droits de l’homme d’une façon complémentaire et se renforçant mutuellement offrent un potentiel pour empêcher la violence structurelle et directe. Cette conférence abordera le potentiel des terre, des aliments et de l’eau en tant qu’instruments de paix pour prévenir les conflits et construire la paix dans les situations de crise.
18:00-19:30
Organisation météorologique mondiale (OMM)
Avenue de la Paix 7bis, Genève
2e étage, salle De Mello (carte d'accès).
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Evènement faisant partie de la "Geneva Peace Week", les organisations suivantes participent à l'organisation de cet conférence:
Le Pôle Eau Genève
Le bureau Quaker auprès des Nations Unies à Genève (QUNO)
L'Organisation des Nations Unies pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture (FAO)
Le Haut Commissariat des Nations Unies pour les réfugiés (UNHCR)
Présidente
Ms Florence Foster
Representative for Peace and Disarmament, Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO)
Florence specializes in displacement and conflict analysis, with an increasing emphasis on disarmament, mediation and conflict transformation. She began her career at the Global Protection Cluster and the International Service for Human Rights in Geneva, before moving on to focus on West African conflict dynamics at the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, with work in Côte d’Ivoire and Mali. Through her latest roles as Programme Manager at the Fondation Suisse de Déminage and Finn Church Aid, Florence led mediation and armed violence reduction initiatives in the Central African Republic.
Intervenants
Mr Murray Burt
Senior WASH Officer at Global level, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
Murray is a chartered civil and environmental engineer with over twenty years’ experience working with United Nations, commercial engineering consultancies and non-governmental organisations in Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia and Pacific. He focuses on WASH policy and strategy development and implementation, lead research and innovation in WASH, and supports the technical assistance to UNHCR WASH staff. He has extensive humanitarian experience responding to multiple refugee emergencies, natural disasters and conflict situations across the globe. He has worked for UNHCR since 2012.
Mr Julius Jackson
Technical Officer (Protracted Crises) UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), Rome.
Julius has held a variety of positions with FAO since 2002, including managing large-scale emergency and rehabilitation programmes in Pakistan and the North Caucasus. Between 2013-2015, with the Committee on World Food Security, he coordinated a global policy process to develop a framework for action for food security and nutrition in protracted crises. Under FAO’s Strategic Programme on Resilience he works on conflict-affected contexts, with a particular interest in how building resilience and supporting livelihoods relates to sustaining peace. He holds a BSc in politics and an MA in international conflict analysis.
Ms Nora Meier
Consultant, Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO)/UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).
Nora is doing research on the role of farmers’ seed systems in sustaining peace with an emphasis on social cohesionas a pathway to positive local collective action. She has previously worked for the Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO) in Geneva as the program assistant on food and sustainability, focusing on small-scale farmers and agricultural biodiversity. She holds a B.A. in Political Science and a Master in Public Administration (Global Leadership and Management).
Mr Michael Talhami
Urban Adviser on Water and Habitat, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
Michael focuses on urban policy formation that helps guide humanitarian programming in support of helping utilities to ensure operational continuity in service provision (water, wastewater, and energy) during times of crises. The efforts serve to advance medium to long term programming in urban areas of protracted conflicts by building urban service resilience. Previously Michael was the ICRC's Water and Habitat Adviser to the Near and Middle East. He provided multidisciplinary analysis of the combined effects on vulnerable communities of conflict and water/environmental issues stemming from local water management practices to climate change, natural disasters, environmental degradation, pandemics, and urbanization. Before the ICRC, he worked for GIZ and the UNDP in the Middle East, as well as several international advisory firms, following a career as an environmental engineer in Canada and the U.S. managing pipeline leak detection projects and conducting Environmental Site Assessments. Michael has a Masters in Environment and Development and a BSc in Environmental Engineering.
Dr Mara Tignino
Senior Lecturer and Coordinator of the Platform for International Water Law/Geneva Water Hub, University of Geneva.
Mara worked at UN Environment focusing on waste management. Mara has been Visiting Professor at the Renmin University of China, the University of Barcelona, the Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali (LUISS) and the Catholic University of Lille. She was also a Visiting Scholar at the George Washington University Law School in Washington D.C. Mara acts as an expert and legal adviser for States, international and non-governmental organizations, as well as the private sector. She has given training workshops in Africa, Middle East, South America and South East Asia. In September 2017, she has been awarded with the prize “Women Peacebuilders for Water” by the Milan Centre for Food Law and Policy. She is a member of the Coordinating Committee of the Interest Group on Business and Human Rights of the European Society of International Law. Mara received a BA in political science from LUISS in Rome, and a PhD and DEA in international law from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva.
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