Fragile Lives 2025 is the second edition of an annual international expert conference focused on using rigorous, scientific evidence to inform policy interventions in fragile, conflict-affected, and underdeveloped settings. This year’s central theme is:
Gender, Institutions, Fragility
We will review the role of gender and institutions in the formation, functioning and impacts of fragility, insecurity, conflict and emergency. 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.
The keynote speakers will be:
- Patricia Justino, Deputy Director of the United Nations World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
- Amber Peterman, Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The conference will include input from a range of partner organizations from policy, practice, and academia on topics around the humanitarian-development-peace triple nexus. More details about the program will be released soon.
You can find out more information on the conference site, and can register to attend via the registration site. The registration fee is €160 and covers full access to all conference programming, lunch on both conference days, and dinner on 1 October.
Fragile Lives 2025 will take place on 30 September and 1 October 2025 at Dorotheenstr. 24, 10117 Berlin in Germany. It is organized jointly by the Zero Hunger Lab of Humboldt-University of Berlin with IRI THESys and Leibniz Institute of Vegetables and Ornamental Crops (IGZ). It is supported by ISDC – International Security and Development Center.
