Voices of Development - Les Voix du Développement

Serge STROOBANTS: Bridging military and development

24min | 03/06/2024

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Dear Listeners,

Thank you for joining us today for a new episode of Voices of Development.

Beginning of 2024, I recorded this interview with Serge Stroobants, who is one of the first, if not the first, international relations professionals I met when I was a student and who immediately inspired me by his career, but most importantly by his frankness and clear-sightedness, which were already refreshing in the well-too-theory-oriented studies I was in. When I met Serge 10 years ago, actually on a boat between Riga and Stockholm, but that’s another story to tell, Serge was at the end of his career within the military and on the verge of joining the Institute for Economics and Peace, an Australian think tank that has developed the concept of positive peace by bridging together peacebuilding with economic resilience and investment. Today, Serge is the regional director of the Institute for Europe and MENA and the global director on Defense, Security and Intelligence. Serge has then undergone a significant change not only in his career but also in his approach to peace, which will guide us throughout the interview as he shares how both worlds work and how together they could do better, with concrete applications to current conflicts in Ukraine and the MENA region, in particular.

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About Voices of Development - Les Voix du Développement

EN- Voices of Development is a podcast by Super-Novae, hosted by Salomé Ponsin-Louette that explores the people, ideas, and challenges shaping humanitarian action and international development.

Through honest and thought-provoking conversations with aid workers, entrepreneurs, researchers, journalists, policymakers, and NGO leaders, we go beyond project stories to discuss the realities of working in fragile and crisis-affected contexts.

From humanitarian response and economic resilience to social innovation, entrepreneurship, peacebuilding, and the future of international cooperation, each episode offers practical insights, personal experiences, and fresh perspectives from those working to create lasting change.

Whether you're a development professional, a student, a policymaker, or simply curious about how today's global challenges are being addressed, Voices of Development invites you behind the scenes of one of the world's most complex and inspiring sectors.

Voices of Development is also avaialble in french ! Check "Les Voix du Développement" if you're interested !

FR - Les Voix du Développement est le podcast de Super-Novae, animé par Salomé Ponsin-Louette, qui donne la parole aux femmes et aux hommes, aux idées et aux enjeux qui façonnent l'action humanitaire et le développement international.

À travers des échanges sincères et sans détour avec des humanitaires, des entrepreneurs, des chercheurs, des journalistes, des décideurs publics et des responsables d'ONG, nous allons au-delà des projets pour explorer les réalités du terrain et les défis du travail dans les contextes fragiles ou touchés par les crises.

De la réponse humanitaire à la résilience économique, en passant par l'innovation sociale, l'entrepreneuriat, la consolidation de la paix et l'avenir de la coopération internationale, chaque épisode propose des analyses, des retours d'expérience et des regards nouveaux portés par celles et ceux qui œuvrent chaque jour pour un changement durable.

Que vous soyez professionnel du développement, étudiant, décideur, ou simplement curieux de mieux comprendre les grands défis de notre époque, Les Voix du Développement vous emmène dans les coulisses de l'un des secteurs les plus complexes, les plus exigeants et les plus inspirants.

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