The Conflict Prevention & Resolution Forum Presents: The Cost of Conflict and the Economics of Peace

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July 13 2010, 9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.

Event Details

Moderator
Zoë Cooprider, US Project Manager, Institute for Economics & Peace

Panelists
Gary Milante, World Bank
Raymond Gilpin, Associate Vice President, Sustainable Economies Centers of Innovation

Conflict has an extremely high economic cost: violence destroys infrastructure, shutters store fronts, and scares investors away from potential and existing markets. Paying soldiers and building the machinery of war can be an enormous cost, driving government debt and directing funding away from productive projects. The Global Peace Index concludes that the global economy lost $28.2 trillion in direct and potential losses due to violence between 2006 and 2009. How and why is violence so costly to the global economy? Given the massive cost of war and the subsequent potential for preventing and resolving conflict, how can this information be leveraged to make the world a more peaceful place?

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Note: This event will not take place at the Woodrow Wilson Center. The location for the event is:

Johns Hopkins SAIS
BOB Building, Room 500,
1717 Massachusetts Ave. NW,
Washington D.C., 20036