Civil society perspectives for the new UN Agenda for Peace

In July 2023, UN Secretary-General António Guterres will release his vision for a ‘New Agenda for Peace’. This commitment comes from the 'Common Agenda', a report from 2021 that looked ahead to the next 25 years.

From 14–15 March 2023, Saferworld, Interpeace, Life & Peace Institute and Humanity United hosted a consultation event for civil society peacebuilding organisations to input their experiences and perspectives into the New Agenda for Peace process.

This outcome report was submitted to the UN interdepartmental team for the New Agenda for Peace, and calls for the Agenda to:

• include strategies to safeguard and expand civic space in local, national and global spheres
• push back against the securitisation of multilateral structures and frameworks for peacebuilding
• massively upscale not just the quantity but also the quality of their support for local peacebuilding organisations
• dedicate resources for both climate-sensitive peacebuilding and for conflict-sensitive environmental programming in order to mitigate against insecurity and violence
• direct all UN funds, agencies and programmes to review its partnership strategies to assess where and how these relationships can be made more equal

Read the submission here.