Fragile Lives 2024

Fragile Lives 2024 is an international expert conference on the use of rigorous, scientific evidence for the development of knowledge-based policy interventions in fragile, conflict-affected and under-developed settings. The conference is being hosted in Berlin, Germany on October 1 & 2 2024. It is organized jointly by the Zero Hunger Lab of Humboldt-University of Berlin with IRI THESys and Leibniz Institute of Vegetables and Ornamental Crops (IGZ).

Start Date: 01 October 2024 End Date: 02 October 2024

The conference will focus specifically on how poly-crises shape individuals, institutions, and interventions at the micro-level and on the policies that can boost resilience and coping capacities in the context of these shocks.
Across three themes, the conference will examine the drivers, dynamics, and impacts of poly-crises, spanning violent conflict, humanitarian emergencies, and the climate crisis:

  • Lives and livelihoods
  • Achieving zero hunger
  • Peace and prosperity

3ie@Fragile Lives 2024

Building what kind of peace? Outcomes of a UN Peace- building project in Darfur? 

Speaker: Paul Thissen
Date: 1 October 2024
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM CET

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Micro-level evidence in peace and conflict

Date: 1 October 2024
Time: 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM CET

Panelist: 

  • Anne-Claire Luzot – Director of Evaluation, World Food Programme
  • Gilles Carbonnier – Professor of Development Economics, Geneva Graduate Institute; Vice President, ICRC
  • Marie Gaarder – Executive Director, 3ie
  • Scott Gates – Research Professor, Peach Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)

Chair: 

  • Anke Hoeffler – Professor of Development Research, University of Konstanz

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Evidence in Peacebuilding: Needs, learnings, outcomes and remaining gaps

Date: 2 October 2024
Time: 2:45 PM – 4:15 PM CET

Speakers:

  • Tilman Brück – Professor (Humboldt-University of Berlin); Team Leader (Leibniz Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops); Director (ISDC – International Security and Development Center)
  • Marie Gaarder – Executive Director (International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie))
  • Bushra Hassan – Senior Advisor, Monitoring and Evaluation (Peacebuilding Support Office)
  • Erin Koenig – Councillor, Global Issues, Economy and Environment (Global Affairs Canada)

Chair:

  • Neil Ferguson – Director, Peacebuilding Research Program (ISDC – International Security and Development Center)

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