Peace Building And Conflict: The Role For Social Entrepreneurs
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Session Description
Ending conflict and building peace requires both political leadership at the top and energy and commitment from the bottom. Social entrepreneurs working in conflict zones and post-conflict societies often seek support for peace at the grass roots. What does it take to be effective in this setting? How do projects survive and can they be scaled up? How do you find partners and allies? This session focuses on locally-led solutions to conflict and the role that social entrepreneurs are playing in some of the most divided societies on earth.
Time & Location
Time:
09:00 - 10:30, Thursday, April 15, 2010
BST
Speakers
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Scott Gilmore is a writer, investor, and entrepreneur. He is President of Anchor Chain which sets up, turns around, or transforms complicated projects. Recent examples of that work include launching a global philanthropic campaign and organizing the deployment of Starlink terminals into Ukraine.
Scott founded Building Markets, a social enterprise that creates jobs by connecting local entrepreneurs to global markets. Prior to this he was as a diplomat specializing in conflict zones and opened Canada’s first embassy in Afghanistan. Scott worked for the UN peacekeeping mission in East Timor and established the new nation’s national intelligence agency.
Scott was given the EY Social Entrepreneur of the Year award, was named one of Canada’s Top 40 Under 40, and was a Skoll Awardee. President Obama awarded him the G20 Prize for innovation in impact investing. The WEF has honored him as a Young Global Leader, and he is a Fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs and the Ashoka Foundation
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Member; Veteran United Nations Envoy and Advisor, The Elders
Former Foreign Minister, Algeria
Former UN USG/special Envoy/Peace Operations
Now retired
Member of the Elders , GLF, IPS
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Chief Executive Officer, The Zimbabwe Trust
Bella Matambanadzo is CEO of The Zimbabwe Trust, a non-profit supporting Zimbabwe’s economic recovery. She has worked in radio, print and television, covering news in 36 African countries for agencies such as the Southern African Economist, Inter Press Service (IPS), the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation’s (ZBC) Radio One and Reuters’ Africa Journal. Previously, she was Zimbabwe Country Programme Manager for the Soros Foundation’s Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa, and Chairperson of the Board of Trustees of Radio Voice of the People (VOP).
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Mabel van Oranje is a global advocate for equality, justice and freedom and serial entrepreneur for social change. During the last decade, she played a catalytic role in the creation and growth of Girls Not Brides: The Global Partnership to End Child Marriage, the Girls First Fund and VOW for Girls. Mabel is currently a board member of Fondation Chanel, the Lego Foundation, the Sigrid Rausing Trust and VOW for Girls (chair). She is also an advisor to Apolitical Academy Global, Co-Impact’s Gender Fund, Global Witness, the Graca Machel Trust and The Elders. Mabel is a champion of Girls Not Brides, and a co-founder and chair emeritus of the European Council on Foreign Relations.
You can follow her tweets @MabelvanOranje
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Gidon Bromberg is the founder and 3 decade Israeli co-director of EcoPeace Middle East. EcoPeace is a unique regional organization that brings together Jordanian, Palestinian, and Israeli environmentalists to promote sustainable development and advance peace efforts in the Middle East.
Mr. Bromberg has spearheaded the organization’s advocacy campaigns in the Middle East and internationally. He developed a cross-border community peace-building program known as “Good Water Neighbors.” The program has helped advance rehabilitation efforts in the Jordan River and defuse the sanitation crisis in Gaza, leading to the removal of most of the pollution from Gaza Strip and southern Israel beaches. The program is seen as a model for environmental peacebuilding in other conflict areas around the world.
Bromberg co-authored EcoPeace’s call for a Green Blue Deal for the Middle East, to advance climate resilience and peace. The report and later EcoPeace efforts led to the signing in November 2021
