Summit of the Future Action Days - Virtual Side Event: Reimagining Equitable Global Infrastructures for Sustainable Peace
What could global collaboration for sustainable peace look like in the future? In a world grappling with geo-political turbulence, rising levels of violent conflict with both causes and consequences intensifying, the pathway to achieving sustainable peace appears illusive. Globally, there is growing recognition of the need to support lasting peace rooted in human rights, justice and security in ways relevant to current realities and future uncertainties. It is pertinent we invest in radically rethinking global collaboration for sustainable peace. Join us for a sneak-peek of the future, as we look into what civil society especially from Global South consider to be plausible scenarios for future global collaboration on sustainable peace.
Date: Thursday 19 September
Time: 10.00 - 11.30 EST | 16.00 - 17.30 CET | 19.00 - 20.30 EAT
Platform: Zoom
In the first half of 2024, a group of 25 change agents from across the globe came together in the RESPACE initiative – a partnership between Conducive Space for Peace (CSP), Network for Empowered Aid Responses (NEAR) and Reos Partners – to reimagine future global collaboration towards sustainable peace. The RESPACE team developed a set of scenarios about possible futures until 2035. These scenarios are a springboard for conversations about transformed global spaces and infrastructures for sustainable peace where power is truly shifted towards civic actors. It seeks to promote collaborative action, where change agents across global networks and spheres of influence create new pathways for change to emerge.
The event is organised by CSP and NEAR, in collaboration with Denmark’s Network for Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding (represented by a group of Danish civil society organisations) and is co-sponsored by the Permanent Mission of Denmark to the UN in New York and United Nations Peacebuilding Support Office (PBSO). The event serves as input to both Summit of the Future and particularly the focus area on International Peace and Security, and the review of the UN Peacebuilding Architecture. It also feeds into the collective agenda of civil society and UN member states in pursuing equitable global governance mechanisms and ensuring the role of civil society in global collaboration.
Programme:
| Opening and introduction: | Sweta Velpillay, Director, Conducive Space for Peace (CSP) Ralph Ellermann, Senior Programme Manager, Conducive Space for Peace (CSP) |
| Input on scenarios and its relevance for global collaboration: | Gunjan Veda, Executive Director, Movement for Community-led Development (MCLD), RESPACE Team member Cedric de Coning, Research Professor at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI), RESPACE Team member Falastin Omar, Change Fund Manager, Network for Empowered Aid Response (NEAR) |
| Reflections and input on relevance for the UN: | Maria Stage, Senior Policy Advisor, Permanent Mission of Denmark to the United Nations in New York Roselyn Akombe, Director of Peacebuilding Strategy and Partnership Branch, United Nations Peacebuilding Support Office (PBSO) Maria Lange, Global lead on Addressing Root Causes of Displacement, Danish Refugee Council (DRC) |