16.11.2022 INCOPS presented at RISING Global Peace Forum 2022

Multiplier Event 09.11.2022

This year's RISING Global Peace Forum was held under the theme ‘Digital Peace’ and took place from 9th - 11th November in Coventry at Coventry Cathedral. Both generally and in specific situations, the Forum was exploring how peace can be both built and destroyed through use of digital media. This focus included the use of cyber technology in creating conflict and tensions and how digital media can be used at international, national, community and individual level both to undermine trust and security and to enhance cohesive communities.

The INCOPS partners presented the project "Integration of Work-based Learning in Peace, Conflict and Security Studies (INCOPS)" on the first day of RISING 2022 as a first multiplier event with a particular focus on digital methods regarding their potential and their challenges for the integration of theory and practice in the field of Peace, Conflict and Security Studies (PCS). It was a great opportunity and a very successful panel. David Curran from the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations (CTPSR) at Coventry University (UK) presented the consortium, the current state of the project and the research questions the INCOPS project focuses on. Moreover, Stéphane Voell and Lena Runge from the Center for Conflict Studies at the Philipps-Universität Marburg (Germany) introduced the audience to the consortium's idea of using a Service Learning inspired approach to integrate theory and practice in the field of PCS. Furthermore, Louise Brown presented her perspectives as a student at the CTPSR on the importance and factual implementation of the integration of theory and practice in her study program.

The audience encompassed academic participants like students, educators and university staff, but also non-academic participants of the interested public.

RISING Global Peace Forum is a unique three-way partnership between Coventry University - as represented by the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations (CTPSR) -, the Cathedral and the City Council. The Forum builds on Coventry’s status as the City of Peace and Reconciliation and seeks to share ideas about what it takes to build and sustain peaceful and to inspire innovative strategies for resolving violent conflict. For this, RISING gathers peacebuilders, policymakers and academics from around the world and likewise invites the public to participate in the events.

RISING 2022 was held in a hybrid format and published a livestream of the whole event. The program of RISING 2022 is available on the homepage of Coventry University. The videos of the livestream of each of the three Forum days are published on the RISING's Youtube channel.