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May 25, 2022
Norm Nudging for Peace and Security
This session explores how social expectations influence the efficacy of norm-nudging programmes in peace and security work and ethical challenges inherent in this area of work.
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May 25, 2022
Behavioural Science for Diplomacy and Peacebuilding
This panel explores the application of Behavioural Science to issues such as inter-group relations and conflict, prejudice and conflict reduction, and affective empathy and public preferences.
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May 25, 2022
Behavioural Science for Programmatic Impact & Culture Change - Lessons Learnt from UNICEF
This event includes presentations from UNICEF country offices sharing lessons, experiences, and results from applying behavioural science to increase immunisation uptake and manage the response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
SDG 04: Quality Education
May 25, 2022
Using Nimble Trial Methods for Rapid Evidence Assessments of Programmes
This session explores how nimble trial methodologies have been used to test and rapidly evaluate COVID-19 prevention interventions and messages.
SDG 02: Zero Hunger
May 25, 2022
Discussion with Professor Cass Sunstein
In this session, Professor Cass Sunstein discusses the topic of "sludge", judgement bias and noise, and how decision hygiene can lead to improvements in areas relevant to the UN.
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May 25, 2022
COVID-19 Vaccination - Global Lessons from the Field Using Behavioural Science
This session highlights how behavioural science can help to drive COVID-19 vaccination efforts and offers considerations to policymakers for vaccine roll-out.
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May 25, 2022
Reaching Herd Immunity Behaviorally: Using Social Media Insights to Inform COVID-19 Vaccination Efforts
This session presents early lessons from efforts to use behavioral insights obtained from social media surveys to improve vaccine take-up.
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May 25, 2022
Lessons Learnt from Mainstreaming Behavioural Science
This session explores lessons learnt from governments and international organisations who have piloted and scaled behavioural science.
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May 25, 2022
Applying BeSci to the Prevention of Violence Extremism: A Practical Guide
This session presents practical tools for applying BI4PVE and examples from Pakistan, Sudan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Yemen.
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May 25, 2022
Paving the Path to Successful Youth Entrepreneurship
This webinar presents research on what works and what doesn’t in applying BeSci to entrepreneurship challenges, and practical tools for designing an intervention in this space.
SDG 01: No Poverty
May 25, 2022
Discussion with Professor Richard Thaler
In this session, Nobel Prize Winner Professor Richard Thaler explores how choice architecture impacts our behaviour and how ethical nudging can help people follow through with their intended actions.
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May 25, 2022
Behavioural Science at the UN - Experiences & Lessons Learnt to Date
This introductory session will explore behavioural science and how it can be applied to the work of the UN, including a discussion of case studies from across the UN system.
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May 25, 2022
Collective Intelligence for Sustainable Development
This webinar presents research of over 277 case studies on how diverse collective intelligence approaches are being used to speed-up progress on all 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
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May 25, 2022
Behavior Change for Good
This talk surveys research on how to overcome the obstacles that prevent many people from saving adequately, exercising regularly, and generally achieving better life outcomes.
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