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Concern Worldwide will host an international conference in Dublin next week marking its 50th anniversary.
The international aid agency’s conference will bring together key policymakers and humanitarian practitioners to identify concrete actions that are urgently needed to address conflict, hunger and human suffering.
Concern’s Chief Executive, Dominic MacSorley, said: “Conflict is the most pervasive and aggressive driver of humanitarian crises around the world. It is the primary cause of widespread death and destruction, displacement and hunger.
“Tackling conflict and its consequences is critical if we are to attempt to reduce the unacceptable level of human suffering in the world today and come close to achieving the ambition of Agenda 2030, a world free of poverty, hunger and injustice. It will require a global response, a resurgence of humanity, that, to date, has been found shamefully wanting.”
Speakers at the event, which takes place at Dublin Castle on Friday, September 7, will include UN Deputy Secretary-General, Amina J. Mohammed, President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins, President Bill Clinton and Former President of Ireland Mary Robinson. (Full list of speakers found in Notes to Editor below or by clicking this link https://resurge2018.com/speakers)
President Higgins will give an opening address to the conference, which is expected to attract more than 350 people.
UN Deputy Secretary-General Mohammed will give a keynote speech about global conflict, hunger and displacement and about the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, which were agreed by 193 countries in September 2015.
Drawing on his key involvement in the Northern Ireland peace process, President Clinton will give a speech about peacebuilding.
The conference will also highlight the experience of people surviving and rebuilding their lives in the midst of some of the world’s most deadly conflicts.
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For more information, please contact Kevin Jenkinson at kevin.jenkinson@concern.net.
NOTES TO EDITOR
Concern Worldwide’s 50th Anniversary Conference, ‘Resurgence of Humanity: Breaking the Cycle of Conflict, Hunger and Human Suffering,’ takes place from 9am to 6pm on Friday, September 7 at Dublin Castle. Registration for invitees and accredited journalists begins at 8.15am.
More details about the conference and its speakers can be found on this website: https://resurge2018.com/
President Michael D. Higgins
Uachtarán Na hÉireann – President of Ireland
Amina J. Mohammed
Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations
President Bill Clinton
Founder and Chairman of the Board, Clinton Foundation and 42nd President of the United States of America
Mary Robinson
President of the Mary Robinson Foundation – Climate Justice and Former President of Ireland
Jan Egeland
Secretary General Norwegian Refugee Council; Special Advisor to UN on Syria
Ambassador Fatima Kyari Mohammed
Permanent Observer of the African Union to the United Nations
Leymah Roberta Gbowee
Nobel Peace Laureate and President of Gbowee Peace Foundation Africa
Ameerah Haq
Former United Nations Under-Secretary-General for the Department of Field Support
Dominic MacSorley
Chief Executive Officer, Concern Worldwide
Aline Joyce Berabose
Concern’s Youth Ambassador
Ruairi de Burca
Director General of Irish Aid
Dr. Caitriona Dowd
Humanitarian Policy Officer, Concern Worldwide
Alex de Waal
Executive Director of the World Peace Foundation
Patrick Colgan
Special Representative of the Irish Government to the Colombian Ministry for Post Conflict
Dr. Rim Turkmani
Senior Research Fellow at the Conflict and Civil Society Research Unit, London School of Economics and Political Science
Nora Owen
Chair of the Oversight Group of Ireland’s second National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security
Sarhang Hamasaeed
Director of Middle East Programs at the U.S. Institute of Peace
Connell Foley
Director of Strategy Advocacy and Learning, Concern Worldwide
Mary Snapp
Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Philanthropies
Abraham Bongassie Wanta
Concern Worldwide Country Director in the Republic of the Sudan
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