Teaching and training peace mediation in times of change: blind spots and new avenues

 Session Description: This session aims to fertilise experiences and allow for a candid discussion between such academic and professional training providers addressing questions such as:

• What training methods and techniques are popular/effective? Are these still relevant? 

• What are our blind spots? How can we look into the horizon and integrate challenges in our horizons ? How can we, and should we adapt to new challenges? 

• How do we address decolonialisation in our methods and teaching? 

• How can feminist foreign policy be mainstreamed into training methods? 

• Are we training the right people? How should/can participants be selected?

• Do new technologies, such as AI present new opportunities?

Moderator: Dr. Antje HERRBERG and Guy BANIM, Visiting Professors, EU Peace Mediation, College of Europe

Panellists:

• Dr. Chris Coulter, Deputy Executive Director, Berghof Foundation. 

• Bettina Muscheidt, Senior Advisor, EEAS. 

• Kieran Doyle, Professor, Kennedy Institute Maynooth University.

• Eldridge Adolfo, Senior Advisor, Dialogue and Mediation, Folke Bernadotte Academy.

• Julian Arevalo, Senior Programme Officer, Mediation, Swisspeace.

• Line Brylle, Global Peacebuilding Advisor, Danish Refugee Council.