Events

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. As was the case in 2024, Fragile Lives will partner with the Households in Conflict Network (HiCN) to host the HiCN Annual Workshop. Since 2005, HiCN has fostered academic research and discussion on the micro-level experiences and consequences of violent conflict in its annual workshops.

Hosted by Humboldt-Universität zu 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. 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.

Our keynote speakers will be 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.

Fragile Lives 2025 is hosted by the Zero Hunger Lab of Humboldt University of Berlin and is organized jointly with the Leibniz Institute of Vegetables and Ornamental Crops (IGZ), and ISDC – International Security and Development Center.

Conference Fragile Lives 2025