As the UN General Assembly prepares to adopt the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development later this week, Interpeace joins several other peacebuilding organizations in releasing the joint statement below.<\/p>\n
The statement addresses the role of peacebuilding in the 2030 Agenda, which, as stated in the Preamble, \u2018seeks to strengthen universal peace in larger freedom\u2019, and articulates in Sustainable Development Goal 16 the aim to \u2018Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels\u2019.<\/p>\n
Marking the occasion, Scott Weber, Director-General of Interpeace, said: \u201cInterpeace welcomes the importance that the 2030 Agenda gives to peacebuilding, and in particular the need to create more inclusive societies. We look forward to working together with our partners to overcome sources of exclusion and to strengthen the social contract between citizens and their governments, building on the strengths that bind communities together.\u201d<\/p>\n
21 September 2015<\/p>\n
On this day, the International Day of Peace, we, a group of peacebuilding organizations from around the world, bring you this message.<\/p>\n
The 70th anniversary of the United Nations brings an unprecedented number of major negotiations, reviews and processes that together will frame the work of multilateralism for the next decade and beyond. Next week, the world\u2019s leaders will sign on to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which has identified peaceful, just and inclusive societies as one of five cross-cutting priorities for the international community, and there will be high-level discussions on terrorism, UN peace operations and peacebuilding.<\/p>\n
Violence is a fundamental dimension of human suffering, just as are poverty and oppression. Violence darkens lives and destroys hope across the world, from remote villages to famous cities, from the poorest countries to the richest. We cannot hope to eliminate extreme poverty, the central aim of the 2030 Agenda, without addressing violence.<\/p>\n
Furthermore, we cannot expect to unravel the challenges of today\u2019s world, from terrorism and displacement, transnational crime and repeated cycles of civil war, oppression and state violence, without digging deeper. We must address the roots of violent conflict and instability in economic and political exclusion; injustice, gender and other forms of inequality; insecurity and institutional weakness; and unsustainable resource use. We must consider changing an international system that does too little to raise up the voices, needs and aspirations of the many, rather than the interests of the few. That many of these issues are upheld in the 2030 Agenda is a heartening development, but more needs to be done.<\/p>\n
If we accept the premise that the keystone of the UN\u2019s work, across development, humanitarian action and peace and security, needs to be to foster the growth of peaceful, just and inclusive societies, then what changes need to take place \u2013 what do we need to do differently?<\/p>\n
An initial step would be to use a preventive lens for all development, humanitarian, security and indeed business initiatives, both at the UN and beyond. Leveraged effectively, the 2030 Agenda could help outline a shared approach to addressing and preventing violence at root. The following principles will be vital for the international community to adopt:<\/p>\n
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Alliance for Peacebuilding
\nAmerican Friends Service Committee
\nCanadian Friends Service Committee
\nCauseway Institute for Peace-building and Conflict Resolution International
\nCDA Collaborative Learning Projects
\nCentre d\u2019\u00e9tudes sur la justice et la r\u00e9solution 1325 (CRJ 1325)
\nCentre for Sustainable Development and Education in Africa (CSDEA)
\nCivil Society Platform for Peacebuilding and Statebuilding (CSPPS)
\nConciliation Resources
\nCordaid
\nFellowship of Christian Councils and Churches in West Africa (FECCIWA)
\nFriends Committee on National Legislation
\nFriends World Committee for Consultation \u2013 World Office
\nFriEnt \u2013 Working Group on Peace and Development
\nGeneration Agency For Development and Transformation-Pentagon (GADET-Pentagon)
\nGlobal Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict
\nInternational Alert
\nInterpeace
\nKvinna till Kvinna
\nNansen dialogue Centre Serbia
\nNonviolent Peaceforce
\nPax Christi International
\nPREGESCO
\nQuaker United Nations Office
\nR\u00e9seau Femmes et Paix (RFP)
\nSaferworld
\nWorld Federation of United Nations Associations (WFUNA)
\nWorld Vision International<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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