Lisa Schirch │ Toda Peace Institute Panel Discussion │ 20 Feb 2024

Dr Lisa Schirch discusses an approach to the current war in Gaza, based on her many years of experience working for peace in conflict zones. Dr Schirch elaborates on a recent Toda Peace Institute policy brief which sets out what a peace plan might look like.
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This presentation was part of a Panel Discussion with an invited audience, recorded in Tokyo on 20 February 2024, and hosted by the Toda Peace Institute.
The panels were:
Climate Change, Understanding China and Threats to Democracy: Dr Volker Boege, Professor Hugh Miall, Olivia Stokes Dreier
Facing 21st Century Wars and the Future of the Multilateral System: Dr Lisa Schirch, Professor Keith Krause
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Speaker:
Dr Lisa Schirch is Senior Research Fellow for the Toda Peace Institute where she directs the Institute’s “Social Media, Technology and Peacebuilding” programme. Dr. Schirch is Richard G. Starmann Sr. Chair and Professor of the Practice at the University of Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies in the Keough School of Global Affairs where she directs the PeaceTech and Polarization Lab. Her full bio can be found here. Dr Schirch is the author of eleven books including most recently Social Media Impacts on Conflict and Democracy (2021), The Ecology of Violent Extremism, and several action guides including Synergizing Nonviolent Action and Peacebuilding, Handbook on Human Security: A Civil-Military-Police Curriculum, and Local Ownership in Security. As a practitioner in the field of peacebuilding for the last 30 years, Schirch has facilitated and participated in the design of national peace processes in over 20 countries, including in Fiji and Afghanistan. Her work includes supporting democracy activists in Latin America, supporting women’s peace efforts across Africa, and supporting community leaders in Asia, working on Indigenous land claims in Canada, and facilitating dialogue on racial justice in the US.
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Policy Brief No.176: A 5-Point Peace Plan - Palestine and Israel toda.org/policy-briefs-and-re...
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