BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Lives Amid Violence - ECPv6.2.0.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-WR-CALNAME:Lives Amid Violence
X-ORIGINAL-URL:http://transformingdevelopment.org
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Lives Amid Violence
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:UTC
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+0000
TZOFFSETTO:+0000
TZNAME:UTC
DTSTART:20220101T000000
END:STANDARD
TZID:America/New_York
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20230312T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20231105T060000
END:STANDARD
TZID:America/New_York
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20220313T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20221106T060000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20230312T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20231105T060000
END:STANDARD
TZID:Asia/Kolkata
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+0530
TZOFFSETTO:+0530
TZNAME:IST
DTSTART:20230101T000000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230420T123000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230420T170000
DTSTAMP:20260625T211240
CREATED:20230505T002439Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230505T002439Z
UID:1407-1681993800-1682010000@transformingdevelopment.org
SUMMARY:Changing Aid Conference
DESCRIPTION:
URL:http://transformingdevelopment.org/event/changing-aid-conference/
LOCATION:American University\, Washington\, DC\, United States
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230317T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230317T121500
DTSTAMP:20260625T211240
CREATED:20230223T115547Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230223T115547Z
UID:1381-1679049000-1679055300@transformingdevelopment.org
SUMMARY:Panel Discussion: The State of the Art on Statebuilding (FB18)
DESCRIPTION:The 2021 fall of Kabul to the Taliban has led both scholars and practitioners to question what is really known about international statebuilding. For almost three decades\, international statebuilding has been one of the dominant forms of international engagement with conflict-affected states. Scholars have studied it extensively\, although from often-dispersed disciplinary and epistemological perspectives. As a result\, our cumulative knowledge on statebuilding and our ability to explain its successes and failures is surprisingly splintered. The papers on this panel consider the political dynamics\, processes\, and outcomes associated with a range of different types of statebuilding — from international interventions and security partnerships to rebel governance transitions — through different ontological\, epistemological\, and methodological prisms. Collectively\, they seek to answer a set of questions about our cumulated knowledge on international statebuilding\, including: Given that statebuilding is an endogenous process\, regardless of who is involved\, what is the difference between top-down and bottom-up approaches? Why are conceptual models of statebuilding so sticky in the face of persistent failure? By addressing these and other questions\, this panel aims to help integrate the fractured knowledge on international statebuilding\, how it is practiced\, and what conditions its successes and failures around the world.\n\nKeywords:\nLegitimacy; Statebuilding; Afghanistan; Peacebuilding; Capacity (State/Governmental)\n\n\nParticipants\n\nDiscussant: Megan Stewart (University of Michigan)\nAuthor: Naazneen Barma (University of Denver)\nAuthor: Susanna P. Campbell (American University)\nAuthor: Aila M. Matanock (University of California\, Berkeley)\nAuthor: Christine Cheng (King’s College London)\nAuthor: Romain Malejacq (Radboud University Nijmegen)\nAuthor: Jessica R. Piombo (Naval Postgraduate School)\nAuthor: Pierre Englebert (Pomona College)\nAuthor: Mareike Schomerus (The Busara Center)\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Problem with Bricks: Statebuilding and Mental Models\n\n\n\n\nPeople:\n\nAuthor: Mareike Schomerus (The Busara Center)\n\n\n\nSponsored By:\n\nInternational Security Studies\n\n\n\nAbstract:\nDespite efforts to reimagine what international engagement in fragile and conflict-affected situations might need to look like\, moves towards genuinely changing the mental models that underpin such engagements have been largely unsuccessful. This paper argues—drawing on ten years of research with the Secure Livelihoods Consortium (SLRC)—that one reason for the continued repetition of established patterns of institution-building\, stabilisation and supporting service delivery by governments with the aim to establish greater credibility with citizens is the mental model that underpins such engagement. Western engagement is driven by imagery of the construction ground\, of architectural blueprints\, of predictability and causality. The mental model also continues to champion modernisation theory and neoliberal economics\, both of which assume that\, brick by brick\, a particular kind of institutions and economic models will create a free market with trickle down effects. These assumptions have not held true and require revision. Changing international notions of statebuilding is thus not a matter of tweaking existing approaches towards context-appropriateness or sequencing: It requires a whole new vision of international development.\n\nKeywords:\nCritical Security Studies; Institutions; Statebuilding
URL:http://transformingdevelopment.org/event/panel-discussion-the-state-of-the-art-on-statebuilding-fb18/
LOCATION:Ballroom West A\, Le Centre Sheraton Montreal Hotel\, Canada
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230317T091500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230317T101500
DTSTAMP:20260625T211240
CREATED:20230223T114648Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230223T114648Z
UID:1377-1679044500-1679048100@transformingdevelopment.org
SUMMARY:Author's Corner: Lives Amid Violence: Transforming Development in the Wake of Conflict
DESCRIPTION:In ‘Lives Amid Violence: Transforming Development in the Wake of Conflict’ (Bloomsbury Academic\, 2023)\, Mareike Schomerus sets out a new vision for what international engagement in situations of violent conflict needs to look like. Drawing on ten years of a major research consortium (the Secure Livelihoods Research Consortium)\, which conducted longitudinal empirical multi-method work in eight conflict-affected countries\, the book puts a number of bold claims to its critics: it posits that the mental models of stabilization and statebuilding set conflict situations on a never-ending violent path\, that economic growth models overlook how social economies really work\, that violence can often be the least disruptive element of lives in conflict situations\, that the invisible elements of what the author calls ‘the mental landscape’ are the most important parts to pay attention to\, and that current understandings of identity and identity-based targeting of populations shies away from a more honest discussion about the burdens of categorisation. Putting into question the past decades of international engagement in conflict situations\, it turns on its heads the notion of service delivery to achieve legitimacy and suggests a genuine turn towards more creative cooperation by calling for an empirically-grounded relational approach and a deep questioning of not just the practices of international development\, but the underpinning beliefs\, imagery\, metaphors and ideologies.
URL:http://transformingdevelopment.org/event/authors-corner-lives-amid-violence-transforming-development-in-the-wake-of-conflict/
LOCATION:ISA Montreal
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230316T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230316T173000
DTSTAMP:20260625T211240
CREATED:20230122T090355Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230122T091355Z
UID:1365-1678982400-1678987800@transformingdevelopment.org
SUMMARY:Author meets critics: Lives Amid Violence: Transforming Development in the Wake of Conflict
DESCRIPTION:International Studies Association Annual Meeting \nPanel TD71 \nSponsored By:\nReal Struggles\, High Stakes: Cooperation\, Contention\, and Creativity (Theme) \nParticipants:\nChair: Jessica R. Piombo (Naval Postgraduate School)\nParticipant: Naazneen Barma (University of Denver)\nParticipant: Larissa Fast (HCRI\, University of Manchester)\nParticipant: David Chandler (University of Westminster)\nParticipant: Linda S. Bishai (Elliott School of International Affairs\, GWU)\nDiscussant: Mareike Schomerus (The Busara Center)
URL:http://transformingdevelopment.org/event/td71-author-meets-critics-lives-amid-violence-transforming-development-in-the-wake-of-conflict/
LOCATION:71-Copier\, Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth\, Montreal\, Canada
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Kolkata:20230124T120000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Kolkata:20230124T130000
DTSTAMP:20260625T211240
CREATED:20230122T090008Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230122T090008Z
UID:1358-1674561600-1674565200@transformingdevelopment.org
SUMMARY:Book Talk: Lives Amid Violence: Transforming Development in the Wake of Conflict
DESCRIPTION:
URL:http://transformingdevelopment.org/event/book-talk-lives-amid-violence-transforming-development-in-the-wake-of-conflict/
LOCATION:Ashoka University\, AC02-205\, Sonipat\, Haryana\, 131029\, India
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221219T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221219T193000
DTSTAMP:20260625T211240
CREATED:20221215T140940Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221215T141027Z
UID:1355-1671472800-1671478200@transformingdevelopment.org
SUMMARY:Fireside Peace Chat
DESCRIPTION:Fireside Peace Chat at Universiteit Leiden University College The Hague\nMonday\, December 19\, 2022.\n18 – 19.30 (with drinks and oliebollen!)  \nhttps://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/2022/12/fireside-peace-chats—19-december-2022 \nHosted by the Knowledge Platform for Security and Rule of Law and Universiteit Leiden University College The Hague
URL:http://transformingdevelopment.org/event/fireside-peace-chat/
LOCATION:MD
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221208T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221208T210000
DTSTAMP:20260625T211240
CREATED:20221208T081835Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221208T082024Z
UID:1352-1670526000-1670533200@transformingdevelopment.org
SUMMARY:The C in SBCC: Contradictions
DESCRIPTION:Over the years\, the SBCC community has curated several novel approaches to understanding people’s behaviours and creative ways to influence them. Communications in the SBCC terminology holds special importance and we have witnessed several success stories of effective use of posters\, media\, edutainment and the likes to drive impact\, be it in the space of global health\, education\, governance or influencing gender norms. That said\, the SBCC world sometimes exposes us to some contradictions: we push for a participatory approach without relinquishing control of our ideas; we talk about the power of youth but also attach skepticism to it given the multiple\, often conflicting\, identities that youth embodies; we talk about localised approaches and external validity in the same breath. These are just a few of the contradictions we face as part of our work\, and there are many more. Through a fun ‘pecha-kucha’ style warm up exercise to hear thoughts on some of these contradictions\, this session will be a world-cafe style\, free flowing discussion. Participants will walk around the room to debate and contribute to a facilitated discussion around the top five themes of contradictions identified by the participants. We see this session as a way to spark conversation\, as a starting point that would feed into the dialogue of shaping up the future of SBCC.
URL:http://transformingdevelopment.org/event/the-c-in-sbcc-contradictions/
LOCATION:Marrakech
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20221204T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20221204T170000
DTSTAMP:20260625T211240
CREATED:20221208T081609Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221208T081609Z
UID:1345-1670158800-1670173200@transformingdevelopment.org
SUMMARY:Code of Ethics for Social and Behaviour Change: From Theory to Practice
DESCRIPTION:Co-hosted by UNICEF and the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR)\, the Global Alliance for Social and Behaviour Change (GA4SBC) will host a 3-hour interactive session to explore the policies and practices needed to promote an SBC Code of Ethics’ values. The session also will highlight measures to ensure benefits and address challenges during implementation. The session will focus on three topics: 1) Power and manipulation: avoidance of abuse of power and dominant power position (power elites) + dialogue\, also including neo-colonialism and gender; 2) Behavioural Insights and nudge theory and practice; and 3) The debate about building business value vs. values within the local communities. The session will consist of panel discussions that is followed by breakout groups where participants will have the opportunity to discuss a “good practice”. The session will end with a report-out and an open discussion. The Global Alliance will circulate a summary report highlighting all the ideas presented at this event and promoting awareness of the topics discussed.
URL:http://transformingdevelopment.org/event/code-of-ethics-for-social-and-behaviour-change-from-theory-to-practice/
LOCATION:Marrakech
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221201T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221201T100000
DTSTAMP:20260625T211240
CREATED:20221128T164330Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221128T164503Z
UID:1333-1669885200-1669888800@transformingdevelopment.org
SUMMARY:Webinar with USAID's Local Systems Community
DESCRIPTION:When Systems and International Engagement Clash (invitation only)
URL:http://transformingdevelopment.org/event/webinar-with-usaid-local-systems-community/
LOCATION:Webinar
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR