Twenty Years of the Culture of Peace: On the Road to Achieving the SDGs

Host Organization: 
International Peace Institute (IPI)
Date & Time: 
Thursday, September 12, 2019 - 6:00pm to 7:30pm
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Location: 
Trygve Lie Center for Peace, Security & Development International Peace Institute See map
777 United Nations Plaza, 12th Floor
New York City, New York 10017
United States

Twenty Years of the Culture of Peace: On the Road to Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals 

An International Peace Institute and the Al-Babtain Cultural Foundation policy forum 

Opening remarks:
  • H.E. Ms. María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés, President of the UN General Assembly
  • H.E. Mr. Anwarul K. Chowdhury, Founder of the Global Movement for a Culture of Peace (GMCoP) and Former Under-Secretary-General and High Representative of the UN
Speakers:
  • H.E. Mr. Masud Bin Momen, Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the UN
  • Ms. Jimena Leiva Roesch, Senior Fellow, International Peace Institute 
Moderator:
  • Dr. Adam Lupel, Vice President, International Peace Insitute

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In 1999 the United Nations General Assembly unanimously adopted the Declaration and Programme of Action on a Culture of Peace (Resolution 53/243) calling for a transition from a culture of war to a culture of peace. Twenty years later, international actors and analysts are increasingly looking at what makes a society peaceful and how we can sustain it. The 1999 declaration identified political, economic, environmental, educational, and health-related components to the culture of peace, presaging the holistic approach agreed to in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. 
 
This event will serve as a kick-off to the 20th-anniversary celebration of the adoption of the Declaration and Programme of Action on a Culture of Peace. It will allow participants to reflect on and discuss the connections between the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the culture of peace ahead of the forum. Speakers will examine these linkages in order to advance the culture of peace at the multilateral level and, in turn, help to accelerate the implementation of the SDGs. 
 
 

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Culture of Peace, peace, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

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