Every year, Fragile Lives convenes international experts from academia, policy, and practice on the use of rigorous, scientific evidence to study the drivers, dynamics, and impacts of poly-crises, spanning violent conflict, humanitarian emergencies, and the climate crisis.
Hosted by Humboldt-University of Berlin and its partners on 30 September – 1 October 2025, Fragile Lives 2025 and the 21st HiCN Annual Workshop will review the role of gender and institutions in the formation, functioning and impacts of fragility, insecurity, conflict and emergency.
IEP Founder & Executive Chairman Steve Killelea will moderate the panel, guiding discussions on how gender and institutions shape experiences of fragility and crisis. Keynote speakers include Professor Patricia Justino, Deputy Director of the United Nations World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) in Helsinki, Finland, and Professor Amber Peterman, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Co-Lead of the Cash Transfer and Intimate Partner Violence Research Collaborative in the United States.
Gender is a key lens to understand how heterogeneous such experiences can be while also recognizing that gender interacts with other identities, such as age, ability, displacement status, or ethnicity.
Participation in this event is by invitation only.
