Basement Room A-119 « Session Locations « International Conference on Research for Development

February 23, 2017

Partnerships for producing and effectively using knowledge that advances transformations towards sustainable development

Eliud Abucheli Birachi¹, Manuel Vogt², Martina Zapf³ ¹International Center for Tropical Agriculture, CIAT, Kigali, Rwanda; ²ETH Zürich, Switzerland; ³Interpeace, Switzerland Aim of theme: To significantly advance discussion of different perspectives and critical reflections on innovative approaches to transformative partnerships. Approach: Use of engaged panel dialogue between scientists, policymakers, civil society, and the private sector […]

February 23, 2017

Transformative partnerships by participatory modeling

Enrico Celio, Adrienne Grêt-Regamey, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich Participation is considered a key concept of bridging science and society. Participatory modeling aims at involving stakeholders in the modeling process, from data collection through model construction and the development of solutions that are more useful for local decision-making than those designed by scientists […]

February 23, 2017

Uses of evidence in contested contexts. Political? Technical? Transformative?

Stefan Bächtold, Laurent Goetschel; swisspeace, Switzerland Extensive data collection has become one of the hallmarks of efforts to reduce poverty, address fragility and conflict, or to make development processes more sustainable. Most of those efforts are underpinned by the idea that more or better knowledge, drawing on scientific data collection, should lead to better […]

February 23, 2017

The role of norms in peace processes

Sara Hellmueller1, Thania Paffenholz2, Jamie Pring1, Julia Palmiano Federer1, Dana Landau2 1swisspeace; 2Inclusive Peace and Transition Initiative The role of norms in international peace processes is growing. Peace mediators, peacekeepers, humanitarians and other actors are increasingly expected to incorporate or uphold a growing set of norms in their interventions. For instance, norms such as […]

February 23, 2017

Doing transformative research for sustainable development ‘at scale’: Learnings from Future Earth and other global research efforts

Ariane Carole de Bremond1, Davnah Payne3, Marie-France Loutre2, Cornelia Krug4, Eva Spehn3 1University of Bern/Global Land Programme (GLP), Switzerland; 2University of Bern/Past Global Changes (PAGES), Switzerland; 3University of Bern/Global Mountain Biodiversity Assessment (GBMA), Switzerland; 4University of Zurich, BioDiscovery, Switzerland 2015 marked the launch of Future Earth, a 10-year international research initiative that aims advance […]