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How Can Education Contribute to Peacebuilding?

Calendar icon 26 July 2021 16:00 - 17:00
This virtual event will consist of a panel of experts with backgrounds in peacebuilding and education. Panel members will provide thought leadership on how education can contribute to building long-lasting peace and harmonious co-existence, within and between countries, in different parts of the world.

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The Education Above All Foundation’s Protect Education in Insecurity and Conflict (PEIC) and its partners invite you to join a special side event on the topic of “HOW CAN EDUCATION CONTRIBUTE TO PEACEBUILDING?”.  Opening remarks by Wendy Morton MP, Minister for European Neighbourhood and the Americas at the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) and held in conjunction with the Global Education Summit 2021.

Moderator:

  • Susan Nicolai, Senior Research Fellow at Overseas Development Institute

Panellists:

  • Wendy Morton MP is Parliamentary Under Secretary of State and Minister for European Neighbourhood and the Americas, at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
  • Dr Michael Yaffe, Vice-President at the United States Institute of Peace
  • Diya Nijhowne, Executive Director at the Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack
  • Shawgi Ahmed, EAA Youth Advocate