Conference – Reimagining PEACE 2025

Date
08/05/2025
9:00 - 18:00

To join, online or in person, please enter your contact details below and indicate each session you wish to attend, online or in person.

The PEACE Research Community Europe is an open trans-European network that expands and strengthens a network of peace and conflict research centres and researchers from across Europe. It is supported by the COST Association – European Cooperation in Science and Technology, funded by the European Union. The main aim for this network is to improve the understanding of the current challenges to peace and security on the European continent and beyond. (Check out this webpage if you’re interested in learning more and participating in PEACE Action)

On 8 May 2025 —exactly 80 years after the end of World War II in Europe—the PEACE Research Community Europe will take centre stage for the first time, in the Flemish Parliament in Brussels.  A conference, hosted by the Flemish Peace Institute, will bring together members of the network as well as others interested in peace research. Together they will set the agenda for the years ahead.

Engaging with policymakers, scholars, and civil society, the event aims to identify key challenges, share new insights, and highlight solution-driven findings in the field of peace and conflict—fostering fresh research, informed policy, and impactful practice in 5 domains: feminist peace, peace & climate, local peace, peace & emerging technologies and Europe, peace and security.

Discover the tentative programme below and register if you want to join the conversation, in person or online (Please note not all sessions will be streamed online).

PROGRAMME 

08:30 – 09:00: Registration
09:00 – 09:30: Welcome & Introduction to the PEACE network – room Schelp
09:30 – 09:45: Break
09:45 – 11:00: Break-out Sessions – Part 1

• Session 1 A: Feminist Peace
  (This session will be streamed online. Register below if you want to join)
• Session 1 B: Peace & Climate
  (Not available for “Online only”-attendees)

11:00 – 11:15: Break
11:15 – 12:30: Break-out Sessions – Part 2

• Session 2A: Local Peace 
  (This session will be streamed online. Register below if you want to join)
• Session 3A: Peace & Emerging Technologies
  (Not available for “Online only”-attendees)

12:30 – 13:45: Lunch

13:45 – 15:00: Europe, Peace & Security
(This session will be streamed online. Register below if you want to join)

15:00 – 15:15: Break

15:15 – 16:45: Roundtable discussion – Acting for Peace: Research, Policy, and Practice
(This session will be streamed online. Register below if you want to join)

16:45 – 17:00: Closing: What’s next?

17:00 – 18:00: Networking reception