Recent events as well as the COVID-19 pandemic suggest that the world is becoming more turbulent both off and online. This panel discussion will present new global trends around peace, conflict and civil unrest, and examine their implications for online space and human security.
Sasha Havlicek is founding CEO of the Institute for Strategic Dialogue. She has spearheaded the development of ISD’s sector-leading digital research and analysis capability tracking and exposing disinformation, hate and extremism online, as well as ISD’s government advisory, frontline training, digital education and tech and communications programming, designed to push back the forces threatening democracy and cohesion today. Sasha has a background in conflict resolution and an expertise in global extremist movements, digital information operations and electoral interference.
Dr Mary Martin is Director of the UN Business and Human Security Initiative at LSE IDEAS. Her research focuses on the role of the private sector in conflict and peacebuilding and private security in the international system. She is the author of Corporate Peace: How Global Business Shapes a Hostile World.
Serge Stroobants is Director of Europe and MENA region at the Institute for Economics and Peace. He is specialized in political science, security and defence, counter-terrorism, global risk analysis and crisis management. He bases his expertise on 30 years of experience in the security and defence domain, underpinned by an extensive academic background with degrees from the Belgian Royal Military Academy, the Free University of Brussels, University of Jean Moulin Lyon III, the German General Staff College and Vesalius College.
Dr Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic is Co-Director of the UN Business and Human Security Initiative at LSE IDEAS. Her work focuses on the political economy of conflict and post conflict reconstruction. She holds a PhD in Economics and an MA in Development Economics.
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