On June 15, the Hague Humanity Hub and the Municipality of the Hague launched a new event series called the peace&justice cafe.
The launch called upon peacebuilders, justice innovators, researchers, humanitarians, impact entrepreneurs, policy makers, and other changemakers from The Hague and beyond to join the new initiative. With the aim of strengthening connections the programme aimed to offer concrete solutions to complex and pressing problems and to increase the collective impact of change-makers.
The first edition spotlighted (The Hague-based) female leaders to share their perspectives on how the(ir) world has been shifting. Seeing how global upheavals uprooted societies, disrupted ways of working, and exacerbated systemic inequalities and injustices, the cafe aimed to explore how the Hague community of professionals can response and navigate the shifting base together.
keynote speakers
Payal Arora
Full Professor and Chair in Technology, Values, and Global Media Cultures, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Why should women be in science? When will we become truly local? Who has the right to connectivity? How much is your societal impact worth? …What’s wrong with these questions? Join Payal Arora’s talk as she explores what it means to build community in a time of anti-globalism, neoliberal values, and the continued devaluation of care economies.
Payal Arora is a digital anthropologist and author of several books including the award-winning “The Next Billion Users” with Harvard Press. She is the co-founder of FemLab.Co, a feminist initiative on the future of work. She is a Professor and Chair in Technology, Values and Global Media Cultures at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Her expertise lies in inclusive design and user experiences among low-income communities worldwide and comes with two decades of fieldwork in such contexts. Forbes named her the “next billion champion” and the right kind of person to reform tech. She sits on several boards such as Columbia University Earth Institute and World Women Global Council in New York. She is Indian, American, and Irish and currently lives in Amsterdam.
dialogue with hague-based leaders
Prof. Dr. Janne Nijman
Chairperson of the Executive Board and Academic Director of the Asser Institute
Monika Sie Dhian Ho
General Director of the Clingendael Institute
Michelle Olmstead
Director, Centre for Innovation, Leiden University
