Arrangement

The Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) has the pleasure of inviting to the seminar:

“
Positive Peace and the Post-2015 Development Agenda: Towards a more comprehensive approach to increase resilience and well-being”

The High Level Panel report released in May of 2013 provided a new roadmap for the post-2015 agenda, highlighting the imperative to measure security and violence as key goals underpinning the broader development agenda. This acknowledged what civil society, practitioners and development professionals have said for a long time; with conflict, there can be no development. However, just as the original MDGs did not go far enough in acknowledging conflict and security, does the post 2015 agenda risk not going far enough in acknowledging positive peace – the positive processes and condition which helps countries become more resilient and increase well-being?

To better understand the long term needs for resilience and capacity building, the Institute for Economics and Peace
 has developed a new conceptual framework named The Pillars of Peace. This framework defines the national characteristics which are most closely associated with peaceful societies and has been derived through empirical and statistical analysis. It currently stands as one of the few holistic and empirically derived studies that attempt to isolate the positive factors that sustain and reinforce peaceful societies.

This seminar will introduce the Pillars of Peace framework and methodology and critically examine its implications for the evolving discussions around the post-2015 Development Agenda. In the seminar we will explore and discuss the differences and complementarities of the more traditional negative peace approaches – such as armed violence reduction – with a positive peace approach. 

 Program 12:30-13:30

• Presentation of the Pillars of Peace framework Daniel Hyslop
  , Research Manager, Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP)

• Comments Morten Bøås
  , Research professor in the Peace Operations and Peacebuilding Research Group at NUPI

Please sign up for the seminar by the 08^th
 of October at 15:00 at the yellow link above.