Join this event organized by 413, LLC, featuring AfP’s Acting CEO & President Liz Hume!
Complex environments necessitate a big tent approach, innovation, and continual adaptation and learning. Stability in complex environments in Africa requires partnerships and cross-sectoral approaches, which must be forefront in policy development and program design. The U.S. government, its partners, and multilateral institutions have lessons to apply to policy and programs but innovation can be hamstrung by inflexible legislation, authorities, and appropriations. The paradigm shift from mostly counterterrorism and countering violent extremism-focused programs, to now broadened efforts to mitigate climate change and strategically compete with global competitors provides the opportunity for a refresh of interagency, regional, multilateral, and partnered approaches and cooperation.
By design, the US Strategy to Prevent Conflict and Promote Stability seeks to catalyze partnerships and whole of society, integrated approaches, and requires localized solutions and innovation- not the same programs re-framed. The big tent may need to be broken and rebuilt in order to institutionalize tailored, localized, and innovative solutions. This panel of experts will offer perspectives on effective partnerships, making the bilateral to regional partnership shift, implementing local and innovative solutions, and utilizing and recalibrating existing multilateral bodies to enable stability in Africa.
Moderator: Stevie Hamilton, Director, Interagency and International Coordination Cell (I2C2), Global Engagement CenterElizabeth (Liz) Hume, Acting President and CEO, Alliance for Peace Building
Panelists
Elizabeth (Liz) Hume, Acting President and CEO, Alliance for Peacebuilding
Simon Nyambura, Director, IGAD Center of Excellence for Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism
Eric Rosand, Senior Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute (UK), and a former Senior Counterterrorism Official in the U.S. State Department
Pierre Saint Hilaire, Special Representative of INTERPOL to the European Union