As the Geneva Peace Week convenes in 2023, the New Agenda for Peace process and preparations for the Summit of the Future in September 2024 are well underway. The original purpose of the Summit was to provide a “once-in-a-generation opportunity to reinvigorate multilateralism, address gaps in global governance, and reaffirm existing commitments, including the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the UN Charter”. In an increasingly fragmented, polarised and securitised world, what key priorities could and should be established in order for the Summit of the Future to deliver concrete outcomes, even amidst the current spiralling deterioration of interstate relations? What can realistically be achieved, and by whom? How can countries, organisations and people contribute to building peace in turbulent times?

MODERATOR

• Ms Annika Hilding Norberg, Head of Peace Operations and Peacebuilding, Geneva Centre for Security Policy

SPEAKERS

• Dr Cedric de Coning, Research Professor, Norsk Utenrikspolitisk Institutt
• Mr Itonde Kakoma, Director, Interpeace
• Ms Madeleine Rees, Secretary-General, Women’s international League for Peace & Freedom 
• Ms Colleen Crenwelge, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations, Department of State, United States
• Amb Ahmed Abdel Latif, Director, Cairo International Center for Conflict Resolution, Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding

This event is part of the Geneva Peace Week 2023. For more information, visit https://www.genevapeaceweek.ch/