Thursday 23 June, 14:30 - 20:00

Qaker House, Square Ambiorix 50, Brussels

This event is a collaboration between the Whole of Society Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding consortium research project, ESSEC's SIRENE seminars, and the Build Peace Salon series.

The Whole of Society Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding consortium research project, which is undertaking an assessment of EU capabilities for civilian peacebuilding. As part of its submission, has identified the EU's choice of partners (multi-stakeholder coherence) as well as the appropriate use of ICTs as a critical measure of EU capabilities for conflict prevention and peacebuilding. 

ESSEC IRENE has organised since 2007 an interdisciplinary research seminar on negotiation (SIRENE). Research is a key issue for negotiation insofar as it contributes to the generation of original concepts, the academic recognition of this multidisciplinary field and, through PhD students, the emergence of a new generation of researchers. To achieve these objectives, the exchange between researchers as well as between researchers, trainers and practitioners, offers a stimulating path. Negotiation needs places and moments in which ideas cross-fertilize, and where best practices are shared. SIRENE is open for those who want to contribute to collective reflection on negotiation, its stakes and its challenges. For more information, visit: http://irene.essec.edu/

Build Peace is a community that brings together practitioners, activists and technologists from around the world to share experience and ideas on using technology for peacebuilding and conflict transformation. 250 people gather annually at the Build Peace conferences, which have to date been held in Boston (2014, hosted by the MIT Media Lab) and Nicosia (2015, hosted by UNDP). The Build Peace 2016 conference will take place in Zürich (hosted by ETH Zürich and the ICT4Peace Foundation). Build Peace Salons are three-hour events independently organized by members of the Build Peace community in between conferences. For more information, visit: http://howtobuildpeace.org/ 

To attend the event (in Brussels, June 23rd), please register online.

Check out the detailed agendas: 

- Questioning the Coherence of the EU External Action in Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding.

- Roundtable on uses of ICTs for EU Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding.