Event Date: March 24, 2014 - 3:30 pm
Location: Pavillon des sciences sociales, 120, rue Unievrsité, salle 4004

Presented by CIPS and the Fragile States Research Network and the Journal of Peacebuilding and Development.

Free. In English and in French. Registration is not required. Seating is limited and available on a first come, first served basis. This event is part of a larger series of events which will take place across Ottawa and Toronto.

Audio:

[audio:http://web20.uottawa.ca/academic/socialsciences/cepi-cips/NewDeal_20140324.mp3]

The New Deal for Engagement in Fragile States could transform the way the international community practices peacebuilding and state-building. Since the New Deal was reached in 2011, working groups of the International Dialogue bringing together 20 fragile and conflict-affected states (FCAS) their OECD donor agency partners, as well as some civil society organisations, have formulated plans to implement the Deal. They say they are making progress in ‘pilot countries’ such as Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), South Sudan and Timor Leste. A recent assessment suggests that despite enduring challenges, those efforts are harbingers of “profound changes in policy and practice” with regard to peacebuilding and statebuilding in FCAS.

To what extent is that so, two years after the New Deal was signed? How do advances vary by pilot country and by goal? Why – in terms of practices by key FCAS governments, civil society organisations and donors? How could Canada, the private sector and others contribute to implementing the New Deal, in countries like the DRC?

A diverse group of senior and mid-level actors involved in New Deal implementation has been invited to Canada to share their views, including:

FRANCESCA BOMBOKO: Co-chair of the IDPS Indicators Working Group; National Coordinator of the Poverty Observatory, Ministry of Planning, Democratic Republic of the Congo
HAFEEZ MUSA ALI WANI: National NGO Focal Point, the New Deal, South Sudan NGO Secretariat, South Sudan
ERIN McCANDLESS: Part-time faculty, Graduate Program of International Affairs, the New School; Civil society representative to New Deal technical working groups
FRAUKE DE WEIJER: Policy Officer, Conflict, Security and Resilience, European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM); Technical Adviser, g7+ secretariat