Global Governance beyond Covid-19 0 Reply

2020 is the 75^th anniversary of the United Nations. In this framework an initiative for promoting dialogue in main global issues was launched to celebrate it along the year. However the COVID-19 pandemic marked a disrupting point for the world, compounded by an unprecedented global health crisis with severe economic and social impacts. In these harsh times, more than ever global governance and leadership should be strengthened in order to build a better future for all.

In this framework, Dialogue Café Network would like to join the #U75 discussions promoted by the UN and address the role of global governance in times of uncertainty in which “public trust in traditional institutions is in decline and relations between countries have been under strain” (UN), through the following questions, some of them proposed by the United Nations, and other proposed by participants in the discussion:

i) Will we emerge stronger and better equipped to work together?, or will distrust and isolation grow further;

ii) How better can we promote cooperation across borders, sectors and generations?;

iii) Will the COVID-19 pandemic determine the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals?;

iv) Which are the best solutions and measures to navigate Europe’s economy through the crisis provoked by the covid-19 pandemic?

v) Which role should play the United Nations? What about other international, or regional organisations?

The session will be an opportunity to celebrate the international day of UN on 24 october 2020.

Keep posted to know more about the programme.

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Youth Shaping Peace Together 0 Reply

The UN General Assembly each 21 September as a day devoted to strengthening the ideals of peace. The International Day of Peace 2020 is dedicated to “Shaping Peace Together” and aims to celebrate compassion, kindness and hope in world frightened by COVID-19 pandemic. A special moment that the United Nations celebrates in the framework of its 75th anniversary and a programme of global conversations aimed at building the peaceful and prosperous future that we all want.

Dialogue Café Network will commemorate the International Day of Peace by organising a global debate on the role of youth in peacebuilding to foster dialogue and collect ideas.

Young people will be invited to share thoughts on how to weather this storm, heal our planet and build peace[1] and debate on the following questions raised by UN and other proposed by participants during the exchange:

• What does peace mean to you?
• When you envision a peaceful world, what do you see?
• What actions are needed to make your vision a reality?
• What role can you play in that regard?
• How can prevent conflicts in the first place? 
• How can we tackle conflicts?
• It´s peace is declared, how can it be sustained?

The debate will be moderated by a member of Dialogue Café Network through questions and the exchange of experiences. External participants will have the possibility of sharing their questions through chat to experts and guest involved but registration is mandatory. Otherwise interested participants can attend the event via livestreaming. The debate will take place via Dialogue Café videoconference system provided by CISCO Webex.

Provisional programme

Dialogue Cafe Evora

• Manuel Marchante, 100% ADN Association

Dialogue Cafe Belgrade:

• Muhamed Alyatem, Master degree Peace Studies at University of Belgrade

• Uros Andjelkovic, Serbian UN Youth Delegate

Dialogue Cafe Novi Sad:

• Velimir Milošev, Young European Ambassador

Keep posted for further information|

For further information and registration:

Dialogue Café Lisbon – Dalia Sendra (daliasendra@casadoregalo.pt), Dialogue Café Belgrade – Biljana Vukosavljevic (unaserbia@gmail.com), Dialogue Café Cidade de Praia – Indira Pires (ipires@institutopedropires.org.cv), Dialogue Café Évora – Margarida Oliveira/FEA (margarida.oliveira@fea.pt) & Ana Rita Valido/ADRAL (ana.valido@adral.pt), Dialogue Café Novi Sad – Stefan Radojcic (s.radojcic@pf.uns.ac.rs)

[1] United Nations – https://www.un.org/sites/un2.un.org/files/idp_what_you_can_do_to_help_-_one-pager.pdf

Art and culture in the context of the pandemic Covid-19 0 Reply

Dialogue Cafe Serbia organized last 11th of September, an online session on the topic “Art and culture in the context of the pandemic covid-19” with the aim of celebrating the European Heritage Days.

The event was organized by hosts of Dialogue Cafes in Novi Pazar, Novi Sad and Belgrade.

Moderated by Haris E. Imamović froom Novi Pazar u Dijalogu- DC Novi Pazar, the session brought together young Serbian participants who discussed about the impact of the current pandemic in the fields of art and culture.

International Youth Day 2020 0 Reply

Dialogue Cafe Serbia organized last 12th of August, an online session on the topic “engagement of young people for climate action”, on the occasion of international youth day and in the context of celebrating the 75th anniversary of United Nations.

The event was organized by United Nations-Serbia and United Nations Association of Serbia (Una Serbia).

Moderated by Stefan Kondić, President of the Council of UNA Serbia, young participants from Novi Pazar u Dijalogu- DC Novi Pazar, Mladi istrazivaci Srbije and Inženjeri zaštite životne sredine-Environment Engineering Group actively participated in the debate.

#YouthDay #Youth4GlobalAction #ClimateAction #DanMladih #Dijalog

Keeping mentally healthy amidst the Covid-19 pandemic 0 Reply

Kindly note that this session has been postponed and will take place within the International Day of Mental Heatlh. Keep posted or contact us to know more!

As COVID-19 continues spreading in many countries and will stay with us for a while, posing a serious threat to our health, security and lives, our societies are facing unprecedented challenges, especially with regard to social interaction, information, health, education and even global governance and leadership.

In response to the spread of COVID-19 and the immediate consequences of this unprecedented crisis, members of Dialogue Café network convened a global videoconference cycle of sessions aimed at sharing ideas and strategies with the aim of analysing how best to minimise the paradigm disruption worldwide.

Dialogue Café Network in cooperation with its partners and other relevant stakeholders from affected countries and beyond, are coming together for connecting ideas and experiences around some of the major issues provoked by this pandemic. This cycle of sessions will focus in the fields of digital competencies, mental health, information, and global governance with the aim of providing a digital space to specialists, representatives of public, private and third sectors, entrepreneurs as well as the general public to share experiences, ideas and expertise in responding to this new emergency.

3^rd Session – Keeping mentally healthy amidst the Covid-19 pandemic?

Since March 2020, most countries in the world have been in lockdown due to COVID-19 pandemic, increasing exponentially in people the experience of fear to the new uncertainty or the unknown. The principal factor of fear is to contract the virus, however significant changes to our daily lives as mobility restrictions and social distancing are additional factors increasing the level of distress in people. Moreover, the economic and employment crisis derived from COVID-19 pandemic are creating difficult situations for many social groups who are more exposed to anxiety and depression feelings. The World Health Organisation is providing advice and guidance to governments and workers of health institutions in general to better look after mental health. There is a risk of massive mental health crisis in the coming months due to COVID-19, according to a policy brief issued by the United Nations last 14^th of May. Specific population groups – such as health workers, children and adolescents, older people, people with pre-existing mental issues, people working from home – are at particular risk.

In this framework, Dialogue Café Network would like to address the impact, positive or negative, of COVID-19 in mental health issues through the following questions and other proposed by participants in the discussion: i) how stigmatised is mental health in your country and how?; ii) which are the major challenges with regard to mental health in times of COVID-19 pandemic?; iii) Which are the best strategies and mechanism to ensure mentally health society?

The online debate organised will take place via Dialogue Café videoconference system. Registration is mandatory. The debate will be moderated by a member of Dialogue Café Network through questions and the exchange of experiences. External participants will have the possibility of sharing their questions through chat to experts and guest involved.

Provisional programme

• Leida Tolentino, Professor, Psychology and Neuroscience – DC Praia
• Emilija Jeremić, Professor, Faculty of Psychology – DC Belgrade
• Representative of HEART – DC Novi Sad
• Haris E. Imamović, DC Novi Pazar

Ensure your participation and join us!

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Misinformation and confusion. How to tackle fake news? 0 Reply

As COVID-19 continues spreading in many countries and will stay with us for a while, posing a serious threat to our health, security and lives, our societies are facing unprecedented challenges, especially with regard to social interaction, information, health, education and even global governance and leadership.

In response to the spread of COVID-19 and the immediate consequences of this unprecedented crisis, members of Dialogue Café network convened a global videoconference cycle of sessions aimed at sharing ideas and strategies with the aim of analysing how best to minimise the paradigm disruption worldwide.

Dialogue Café Network in cooperation with its partners and other relevant stakeholders from affected countries and beyond, are coming together for connecting ideas and experiences around some of the major issues provoked by this pandemic. This cycle of sessions will focus in the fields of digital competencies, mental health, information, and global governance with the aim of providing a digital space to specialists, representatives of public, private and third sectors, entrepreneurs as well as the general public to share experiences, ideas and expertise in responding to this new emergency.

Since March 2020, due to COVID-19 pandemic lockdown, the use of either social media, search engines, video sites and messaging applications (or combinations of these) to get news has increased in most countries (Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism) as well as the spread of false news and misinformation giving their nature to readily share information. Most relevant social networks such as Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Twitter and YouTube, among others, published a joint statement to combat misinformation. As more people are using social media for news and updates, trusting content is more difficult to reach.

In this framework, Dialogue Café Network would like to address how better to fight misinformation and contribute to the identification of mechanisms that better determine if the information is accurate. With this purpose, special guests invited will address the following questions and other proposed by participants in the discussion: i) Are fake news good business for social media companies? If yes, which role can they play to fight the stop the spread of mis-information?; ii) How to improve media literacy skills in COVID-19 times? iii) How to promote the use of other means of evidence and enhances trustworthiness? 

Online debate organised will take place via Dialogue Café videoconference system. Registration is mandatory. The debate will be moderated by a member of Dialogue Café Network through questions and the exchange of experiences. External participants will have the possibility of sharing their questions through chat to experts and guest involved.

Moderation:

• Uroš Andjelkovic, Dialogue Café Serbia – Dialogue Café Belgrade
• Dalia Sendra, Dialogue Café Association – Dialogue Café Lisbon

Special guests:

• Gustavo Cardoso, Full Professor of Communication Sciences at ISCTE – Lisbon University Institute, Portugal and a member of the Innovation Lab Annenberg School of Communication and World Internet Project both based at the University of Southern California – DC Lisbon
• Ana Pinto Martinho, Professor at ISCTE-IUL and Editor at the European Journalism Observatory website – DC Lisbon 
• Gabriela Oliveira, Project manager at Two Impulse, chatbot to combat “fake news” and answering specific questions about the Coronavirus – DC Evora
• Representative of Rádio Campanário – Vila Viçosa – DC Evora
• Dušan Kovačević, Faculty of political science – DC Belgrade
• Marija Maric, Public policy coordinator, Centre for youth work – DC Novi Sad
• Branislava Aradjan, Junior Chamber International Novi Sad, President – DC Novi Sad
• Nurete Brenner, Director of Ecological Leadership, Lake Erie Institute – Dialogue Café Cleveland, CWRU-Siegal

Keep posted to know more about the programme. Ensure your registration and share your experience and ideas!

For further information, get in touch.

Dialogue Café Association and Dialogue Café Lisbon – Dalia Sendra (daliasendra@casadoregalo.pt), Dialogue Café Belgrade – Biljana Vukosavljevic (unaserbia@gmail.com), Dialogue Café Cidade de Praia – Indira Pires (ipires@institutopedropires.org.cv), Dialogue Café Cleveland – Karen Laurence (kal179@case.edu) Dialogue Café Évora – Margarida Oliveira/FEA (margarida.oliveira@fea.pt) & Ana Rita Valido/ADRAL (ana.valido@adral.pt), Dialogue Café Novi Sad – Biljana Vukosavljevic (unaserbia@gmail.com)