Religious and secular actors - new and traditional partners for peace?

Session Description: This interactive roundtable will facilitate a dialogue between religious and secular peacebuilding actors in a number of contexts. Together they will identify best practices and lessons learned for collaboration, exchange on the challenges and opportunities of religious engagement in mediation and dialogue, and highlight avenues for future cooperation.

Moderator: Michael Keating, EIP Executive Director

Panellists:

• Inge Brees, Policy & Outreach Manager, Search for Common Ground

• Ezabir Ali, Founder/Secretary of EHSAAS

• Fatima Madaki, Nigeria Country Director, Search for Common Ground

• Vincent Depaigne, EU Coordinator for the dialogue between the European Commission and churches, religious associations or communities as well as philosophical and non-confessional organisations

• Priscilla Hayner, Chief of Staff to the Co-Chair of the High-Level Working Group on the Environmental Consequences of the War and Senior Adviser at European Institute of Peace

• Hisham Al-Omeisy, Senior Advisor, European Institute of Peace (virtual)

• Ukraine panelist

• Environmental expert