Programme
DAY 1: October 10 - Tuesday; Venue Norðurljós
8:00 - 8:30 Registration & Welcome
8:30 - 10:00 Opening Session
Opening remarks Katrín Jakobsdóttir, Prime Minister of Iceland
Guðmundur Ingi Guðbrandsson, Minister for Nordic Cooperation and Minister of Social Affairs and the Labour Market
Keynote address - How Can We Achieve Sustainable Peace?
Amina J Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations and Chair of the United Nations Sustainable Development Group
Fireside chat with Amina J. Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations and Katrín Jakobsdóttir, Prime Minister of Iceland
Moderated by Ingólfur Bjarni Sigfússon, Editor of Kveikur
10:00-10:20 Coffee break
10:20 - 11:45 Nordic Solidarity for Peace: The Way Forward
Opening remarks Anne Beathe Tvinnereim, Minister for Nordic Cooperation and Minister of International Development, Norway, Guðmundur Ingi Guðbrandsson, Minister for Nordic Cooperation and Minister of Social Affairs and the Labour Market, Iceland
Panel discussion Anine Hagemann, Special Advisor, Foreign Ministry of Denmark, Jannie Lilja, Director of Studies, Peace and Development, at SIPRI, Louise Olsson, Research Director, Department of Global Politics, Norms and Society, Peace Research Institute Oslo, Marko Lehti, Research Director of Tampere Peace Research Institute (TAPRI), Pia Hansson, Director Höfði Reykjavík Peace Centre.
Closing remarks Anne Beathe Tvinnereim, Guðmundur Ingi Guðbrandsson
Moderated by Guðmundur Hálfdánarson, Professor of History and Chair of the board of the Institute of International Affairs at the University of Iceland
11:45 - 12:30 Lunch
12:30 - 13:30 Global Challenges to Peace in the 21st Century
Address by Þórdís Kolbrún Reykfjörð Gylfadóttir, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Iceland
Bruno Stagno Ugarte, Deputy Executive Director for Advocacy, Human Rights Watch, Ingibjörg Sólrún Gísladóttir, Former Minister for Foreign Affairs of Iceland and Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, Sanam Naraghi Anderlini, Founder and CEO of the International Civil Society Action Network (ICAN) and an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA)
Moderated by Ægir Þór Eysteinsson, Press Officer at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs
13:30 - 13:45 Coffee break
13:45 - 15:00 The Role of Cities in Promoting Peace
Andriy Sadovyi, Mayor of Lviv, Dagur B. Eggertsson, Mayor of Reykjavík, Juhana Vartiainen, Mayor of Helsinki
Moderated by Eva Bergþóra Guðbergsdóttir, Head of Communications, City of Reykjavík
Safeguarding Nordic Democracy
Jeppe Albers, Executive Director at Nordic Safe Cities
Introduction of Mayors for Peace Children’s Art Competition “Peaceful Towns”
15:00 - 15:15 Coffee break
15: 15 - 16:00 Spotlight Session – The Rollback of Women's Rights in Afghanistan: How to Negotiate a Way Forward
Mahbouba Seraj, Afghan Journalist and Women Rights Activist and Pashtana Durrani, Executive Director of LEARN Afghan and Human Rights Activist
Moderated by Ingibjörg Sólrún Gísladóttir, Former Minister for Foreign Affairs of Iceland and Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
16: 00 - 16:15 Closing remarks, Guðmundur Ingi Guðbrandsson, Minister for Nordic Cooperation and Minister of Social Affairs and the Labour Market
16:15 - 17:30 Reception at Harpa
18:00 Concert at the Nordic House, “Woman – Life – Freedom“ with Samara Bahrami and Morten Haugshøj
DAY 2: October 11 - Wednesday; Venue Norðurljós
9:00 - 9:15 Opening remarks Jón Atli Benediktsson, Rector of the University of Iceland
9:15 - 10:15 Opening panel
The Peace and Security Implications of Climate Change for the Nordic Region
Cedric de Coning, Research Professor, NUPI, Emma Hakala, Senior Research Fellow, FIIA, Kyungmee Kim, Senior Researcher, SIPRI, Minoo Koefoed, Senior Research Fellow, NUPI, Tobias Etzold, Senior Research Fellow in the Research Group for Security and Defense at NUPI
Moderated by Silja Bára Ómarsdóttir, Professor of International Relations at the University of Iceland
10:15 - 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:45 Art as an Ecosystem for Sustainable Peace and Social Justice
Khaled Barakeh, Conceptual artist and Cultural activist, Lisa Glybchenko, PhD researcher and Entrepreneur in Visual Peace Technology, Samara Bahrami, Singer and Songwriter
Moderated by Hanna Styrmisdóttir, Professor of Curatorial Practice at Iceland University of the Arts
11:45 - 12: 30 Lunch break
12:30 - 13:30 New Conflict Constellations, New Conflict-Resolution Thinking?
Dino Krause, Postdoc Researcher at DIIS, Justine Chambers, Postdoctoral research fellow at DIIS and visiting fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the Australian National University, and Isabel Bramsen, Director of Peace and Conflict Studies and Associate Professor at Lund University
Moderated by Mona Kanwal Sheikh, Senior researcher and head of unit at DIIS
A performance by Samara Bahrami and Morten Haugshøj, “Woman – Life – Freedom“
13:30 - 14:30 Feminist Approaches to Nordic Peace
Gunhild Hoogensen Gjørv, Professor of peace and conflict studies at the Centre for Peace Studies, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Louise Olsson, Research Director, Department of Global Politics, Norms and Society, Peace Research Institute Oslo, Louise Ridden, Postdoctoral researcher, Tampere University, Silja Bára Ómarsdóttir, Professor of International Relations University of Iceland.
Moderated by Élise Feron, Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow at Tampere Peace Research Institute (TAPRI)
14:30 - 14:45 Coffee break
14:45 - 15:45 Closing Session - Nordic Peace Revisited
Hanna Klinge, Deputy CEO at CMI – Martti Ahtisaari Peace Foundation, Héðinn Halldórsson, Communications Advisor, WHO Regional Office for Europe, Isabel Bramsen, Director of Peace and Conflict Studies and Associate Professor at Lund University and Marko Lehti, Research Director of Tampere Peace Research Institute (TAPRI)
Moderated by Måns Molander, Nordic Director of Human Rights Watch
15:45 - 16:00 Closing remarks Anne Elizabeth Jensdatter, Vice President of the Nordic Youth Council
16:00 - 16:30 Stand- Up with Comedian Ari Eldjárn