Senior Leadership for Peace Seminar 2025
Operationalizing the Pact of the Future in Turbulent Times
As the world navigates a convergence of complex crises—from geopolitical fractures and climate shocks to technological disruption, shrinking financial support, and overall multilateral fatigue—bold, strategic, and innovative leadership is urgently needed to pave the way towards a more peaceful and secure global future.
The Senior Leadership for Peace Seminar 2025 aims to:
- Provide an opportunity to reflect on the rapidly evolving challenges to peace and security, and the requirements for operationalizing the Pact of the Future and the 2025 Peacebuilding Architecture Review into concrete, operational strategies and action plans.
- Revisit and strengthen inclusive, adaptive, ethical and transformative leadership for peace - mindsets, behaviors and skills - that are essential for advancing peace and security in complex and sensitive contexts.
- Catalyze collaborative action to more effectively address interconnected challenges by applying systems thinking, co-learning, and co-design approaches.
Who should attend
The Senior Leadership for Peace Seminar 2025 (SLPS) brings together a diverse and global cohort of senior-most leaders and decision-makers responsible for shaping peace and security agendas in fragile and rapidly evolving contexts. Participants typically hold strategic, executive, or senior advisory roles within governments, multilateral and international organizations, civil society, and the private sector.
Costs
All seminar costs are covered by the organizing partners. To ensure strong engagement, a participation fee has been introduced as a symbolic contribution to signal commitment and support the seminar’s long-term sustainability. For this year, in celebration of the relaunch of this revised format, the fee will be waived for all participants.
This five-day intensive seminar is based on a long-standing executive programme newly redesigned to reflect today's global accelerating dynamics: It is jointly delivered at the Maison de la Paix in International Geneva by the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP), the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), and the Federal Department for Foreign Affairs of Switzerland (FDFA). Held in International Geneva, the seminar brings together the city’s unique peacebuilding ecosystem, as well as its rich expertise in the area of training, research and capacity building.
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