SOCIAL PARTNERSHIP AND REGIONAL INTEGRATION
RISC-RISE International Conference 2021
Event Registration
Event Registration is closed.
Keynote Lectures
The first day of the conference was concluded by a Keynote lecture by Xochitl Molina Gonzalez (Director of the Veracruz Institute for Indigenous Affairs) speaking about Indigenous Women’s Rights.
The second day of the conference was concluded by a Kapuscinski Lecture by Bandana Rana (UN Committee on Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) on “Scaling Women’s Rights.”
Registration for the KAP talk is closed.
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
29 NOVEMBER 2021
08:45 – 09:00
Webex
WELCOME
Suzanne Graham (University of Johannesburg), Co-President, RISC-RISE Consortium
Franz Clément (LISER), Co-organizer of Conference
09:00 – 10:30
Webex
Panel I: Reinventing cooperation and partnerships to Address Environmental Insecurity I
Working Groups: Management of Strategic Resources, Environment and Society & Social Construction of Risk and Disasters
Chair: Dr. Sandra Häbel (RISC-RISE)
11:00 – 13:00
Webex
Panel II: Freedom and equality: Partnering to promote good quality democracy
Working Group: The Quality of Democracy
Chair: Victoria Graham (University of Pretoria)
14:00 – 15:30
Webex
Panel III: Emphasizing three “P’s” in PCD: Policy partnerships for participative policy coherence for development
Working Group: Development, Equity and Policy Coherence
Chairs: Lauri Siitonen (University of Helsinki, Finland) and Harlan Koff (University of Luxembourg)
16:00 – 16:30
Webex
RISE Panel I: Community Engagement Grants
Chair: Victoria Graham (University of Pretoria)
16:30 – 18:00
Webex
Panel IV: Reinventing cooperation and partnerships to Address Environmental Insecurity II
Working Groups: Management of Strategic Resources, Environment and Society & Social Construction of Risk and Disasters
Chairs: Carmen Maganda (INECOL, Mexico) and Edith Kauffer (CIESAS Sureste, Mexico)
18:00 – 19:00
Webex
Keynote Lecture by Xóchitl Molina González (Veracruz Institute for Indigenous Affairs)
30 NOVEMBER 2021
09:00 – 10:30
Webex
Panel V: Spatial and social convergences in border regions through civic engagement Panel sponsored by the Migration and Inclusive Societies Research Group, University of Luxembourg
Working Group: Comparative Migration and Border Politics
Chairs: Dr. Christian Wille and Dr. Koku Gnatuloma Nonoa (both of the University of Luxembourg).
Discussant: Peter Ulrich (Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg)
11:00 – 12:00
Webex
RISE Panel II: Policy Engagement
RISC-RISE Contribution on South-South Cooperation to UNDP Report on Development Finance
Chair: Suzanne Graham (University of Johannesburg)
13:00 – 14:00
Webex
Panel VI: Transnational civil society initiatives against crime
Working Group: Conflict Violence and Citizen Security
Coordinator: Dr. Juan Carlos Velez Rendon (Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia)
14:00 – 14:30
Webex
15:00 – 17:00
Webex
Panel VII: Addressing humanitarian crises amongst autochthonous and local communities through cross-border social partnerships
Working Group: Civil society, Vulnerable Populations, and State Policies of Health and Well-being
Chairs: Dr. Claudia Puerta Silva (Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia) and Dr. Catherine Alès (EHESS, Paris, France)
18:00 – 19:00
University of Luxembourg Campus Belval & Webex
Kapuscinski Lecture by Bandana Rana (UN Committee on Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) on “Scaling Women’s Rights”
Event Organizers
The 2021 conference is organized by the University of Luxembourg, the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) and the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Johannesburg.