Perspectives on Futures of Post-Conflict Societies

The meeting will take place in Jekteviksbakken 31. Breakfast will be served.
You can also follow the event on Zoom.

At this breakfast meeting, filmmaker

Akoul de Mabior
will
meet

Sarah Tobin
(CMI),

Torunn Wimpelmann
(CMI) and

Elina Troscenko
(UiB) for a discussion on how younger generations, particularly women, approach and see the future of post-conflict societies.

Akoul de Mabior has directed the documentary

NO SIMPLE WAY HOME

, a personal film about politics, nation building and belonging in South Sudan.

The film opens this year’s human rights programme

Checkpoints

at Bergen International Film Festival (BIFF). It will be shown
on 20, 21 and 26 October. We encourage all to attend the screening at Bergen Kino.

The panel will explore challenges and complexities of building futures in post-conflict societies. What are the gendered dimensions and perspectives on the futures of societies thorn and raged by conflicts? What role does young generations play in post-conflict contexts? The discussion will offer perspectives from Africa, Middle East, Caucasus and Central Asia.

The event is organised in collaboration with
Global Research Programme on Inqueality (GRIP) and
Bergen International Film Festival.

Photo by Mahmoud Sulaiman on Unsplash