Preventing War : Responding to New Threats 1 & 2 October 2020 the Normandy World Peace Forum
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3rd EDITION PREVENTING WAR : RESPONDING TO NEW THREATS 1 & 2 OCTOBER 2020 THE NORMANDY WORLD PEACE FORUM An international event open to all, the Normandy debates, project presentations, testimonies, a World Peace Forum is a laboratory for thinking pop-up bookshop with book-signings, exhibitions, and mediation on the themes of peace, freedom meetings with NGOs and associations, etc. and geopolitical developments in the contemporary world. Every year, over 200 renowned speakers and Objective : to exchange views, encourage several thousand participants, including many discussions and the search for solutions to help to secondary school students, meet in the historic build lasting peace in the world. grounds of the Abbaye aux Dames in Caen. On the agenda : plenary conferences, topic-based HIGHLIGHTS OF THE 2019 FORUM There were many highlights to this 2nd Forum on the theme «The Peacemakers» The presentation of The Nor- mandy Manifesto for World Peace by its 6 authors and first signatories (Sundeep Waslekar, Anthony Grayling and 4 Nobel The opening of the Forum by The Freedom Prize awarded Prize winners : Denis Mukwege, Denis Mukwege, 2018 Nobel to the young Swede G reta Mohamed ElBaradei, Jody Williams Peace Prize winner and its closing Thunberg in front of a crowd of and Leymah Gbowee) to warn of by Jean-Yves Le Drian, Minister veterans : a moment of intense the need to build a new interna- for Europe and Foreign Affairs. emotion and exchanges between tional security system. generations. The Walk Global Walk scheme : The presentation of the European The launch of the Normandy nearly 800 young people from Parliament’s Normandy Index, for Peace Chair of Excellence Normandy who came to present which measures conflict on a in the presence of Pierre Denise, their work on the UN’s Sustainable global scale, country by country, in President of Caen Normandy Development Goals (SDGs). the presence of Ioan Mircea Paşcu, University and Antoine Petit, Vice-President of the European President of the CNRS. Parliament. 6 000 30 3 240 VISITORS, INCLUDING DEBATES PLENARY SPEAKERS 2 500 YOUNG PEOPLE CONFERENCES FROM 40 COUNTRIES 42 2 YOUTH EVENTS : 300 ARTICLES LISTED PARTNERS WALK THE GLOBAL FROM THE NATIONAL AND CORPORATE WALK AND THE AND INTERNATIONAL SPONSORS FREEDOM PRIZE PRESS MOVING TOWARDS THE 2020 FORUM PREVENTING WAR : RESPONDING TO NEW THREATS The 3rd Normandy World Peace Forum will be The Forum will host a day of debates and held on 1st & 2nd October 2020, at the Abbaye testimonies on the role of women in promoting aux Dames in Caen. This 3rd Forum will examine peace. The Forum’s nightly events will feature the major issues of conflict prevention, such as a documentary screening evening named "The environmental challenges, access to education Cave" on Thursday 1 October and a literary and understanding new technologies, on the evening on Friday, 2 October. Hosted by Jérôme theme " Preventing war : responding to new Garcin, in partnership with the news magazine threats ". L’Obs, it will bring together renowned authors committed to peace and freedom. ON THE AGENDA Each day, major plenary conferences will provide Organized in partnership with members of the a comprehensive overview of the Forum’s theme, Normandy for Peace network, international cross-referencing experiences and testimonies. discussion and mediation sessions will be hosted The conferences are in a dynamic format, the throughout the Forum. topics of the conferences being developed around an alternation of video reports and talks by a And as usual key events dedicated to youth, panel of public figures. including : Over the two days, some fifteen thematic The 2nd Freedom Prize, which will be held on debates will go into the conferences in more depth Friday 2 October, awarded to a personality or an and address topical issues from the perspectives organization engaged in an exemplary fight for of experts, political representatives and civil freedom. society with complementary profiles. Walk The Global Walk, on Thursday 1 October, The Village for Peace is open all the time, providing which will bring together nearly 800 young people the public with spaces for meetings, exhibitions, from Normandy to present their work on the UN presentations of NGO work and projects certified Sustainable Development Goal (SDO) no. 13 : Take Normandy for Peace, a pop-up bookshop, etc. urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts. Free event open to all. NORMANDY FOR PEACE : THE 2019-2020 AGENDA › 1 October 2019 › 24 January 2020 Abbaye aux Dames, Caen Memorial, Caen Conference by Antonio Oposa “The time for talk is Final of the secondary school moot competition over. Climate justice for future generations” as part organized by the Caen Memorial with the support of the Normandy for Peace Chair of Excellence of the Normandy Region › 2 October 2019 › 28 and 29 January 2020 Abbaye aux Dames, Caen Brussels Launch of the “Walk the Global Walk” programme Normandy for Peace event on the theme “Europe with Normandy heads and teachers and Peace” › From 7 to 13 October 2019 › February 2020 Bayeux Abbaye aux Dames, Caen 26th Bayeux-Calvados-Normandy Award for war Deliberations of the international jury of the correspondents Freedom Prize › 18 November 2019 › 10 March 2020 Abbaye aux Dames, Caen Abbaye aux Dames, Caen UNESCO Master Class against racism Meeting with singer Barbara Hendricks about her and discrimination in partnership with the commitment to peace in partnership with the International Institute for Human Rights and festival : Les Boréales Peace › 19 November 2019 › March 2020 Conservatoire, Caen Toamasina, Madagascar Barbara Hendricks concert in partnership with the 9th Human rights moot competition for secondary festival : Les Boréales school pupils in Toamasina in partnership with the International Institute for Human Rights and Peace › 20, 21 and 22 November 2019 New York and Washington › 1 & 2 October 2020 Cycle of conferences at the International Peace Abbaye aux Dames, Caen Institute in New York, at Columbia University 3rd Normandy World Peace Forum and Washington D.C following on from the 2nd Normandy World Peace Forum and the actions that were initiated there › 21 January 2020 Station F, Paris Conference : “New technologies : for better or for worse ?” organised with NGO Humanity Diaspora THE ENTIRE NORMANDY FOR PEACE AGENDA IS AVAILABLE AT : www.normandyforpeace.com .