📅 13 July 2022 🕑10:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT
Online
This year’s Fragile States Index covers a year in 2021, which had record economic growth and a reduction in poverty on the one hand, but also huge numbers of people killed by the Covid-19 pandemic, massive numbers displaced by violence, and a sharp increase in riots, protests, and coups. The last two years have challenged many assumptions about what it means to be fragile and what it means to be resilient. Countries that were thought to be strong proved weak. Problems that were thought to be simple proved complex. An erosion in public confidence in democratic institutions and an increase in social and political polarization in both rich and poor countries across the globe, has contributed to a rise in authoritarianism. This bodes ill for the ability of countries to be resilient and mitigate the next global shock.
The 17th annual Fragile States Index provides an overview of patterns and trends in security, economic, political, and social pressures which must be addressed to better prevent, prepare, manage and recover from crisis, even as international development efforts continue to reduce poverty and mortality rates around the world.
Keynote Speakers:
- Lt. Gen. Kirk Smith – Deputy Commander, U.S. Africa Combatant Command
- Dr. Octaviano Canuto – Senior Fellow, Policy Center for the New South Nonresident Senior Fellow; The Brookings Institution; Former Executive Director of the World Bank and IMF
Panelists:
- Ambassador John Herbst – Senior Director, Atlantic Council
- Dr. Frances Brown – Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- I-Sah Hsieh – Principal Social Innovation Manager, SAS Analytics
- Mariam Tadros – Regional Director, MENA/Asia, International Alert
- Dr. Juan Carlos Sainz – Dean, University for Peace
- Osei Frimpong Baffour – Coordinator, African Union Liaison Office, WANEP
- Yenny Wahid – Director, The Wahid Institute
With moderation from: Elise Labbot, CEO/Founder, Zivvy Media
The 2022 Fragile States Indexis the 17th annual iteration of a data-driven policy tool that stands as a leading measure of political, social, and economic pressures across 179 countries.
For over 60 years, The Fund for Peace(FFP) has been a world leader in developing practical tools and approaches for reducing conflict. With a clear focus on the nexus of human security and economic development, FFP contributes to more peaceful and prosperous societies by engineering smarter methodologies and smarter partnerships. FFP empowers policy-makers, practitioners, and populations with context-specific, data-driven applications to diagnose risks and vulnerabilities and to develop solutions through collective dialogue. FFP is an independent 501(c)(3) non-profit organization headquartered in Washington, D.C. with a presence in Abuja, Accra, and Tunis.
Closed captioning will be available through Zoom live transcription. Please note live transcription currently only supports English and the accuracy of the feature depends on many variables, such as but not limited to: background noise; volume and clarity of the speaker’s voice; speaker’s proficiency with the English language; lexicons, and dialects specific to a geography or community.