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GGIN in Geneva
Contributed by Global Governance Innovation Network
Posted 18 February 2024
To kick off the 2024 new year, Global Governance Innovation Network colleagues spent a month in Geneva as part of the Transformative Futures in Peace and Security fellowship with the Geneva Center for Security Policy. Catch the latest engagement headlines on engagement with International Geneva ahead of the Summit of the Future in New York (September 2024) below.
High-Level Roundtable on Collective Security and the Universality of Conflict Prevention: A new moment for Geneva-based stakeholders?
๐The Geneva Center for Security Policy
๐ 5 February 2024
๐ Download the outcome report
Co-Sponsors: the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, Permanent Mission of Switzerland to the United Nations and Other Organizations in Geneva, Geneva Peacebuilding Platform, and Stimson Center
Geneva-based Permanent Representatives, senior UN Mission officials, and experts from leading international organizations, think tanks, advocacy organizations, and universities in Geneva, Switzerland convened under the Chatham House Rule. The discussion aimed to further highlight the role of International Geneva in feeding into and following through on the Pact for the Future, the chief outcome to the Summit of the Future, planned for 22-23 September 2024 in New York. The outcome report will be available soon.
Informal Geneva Civil Society Breakfast Briefing on the Summit of the Future and related UN-Civil Society Conference in Nairobi
๐The Geneva Center for Security Policy
๐ 17 January 2024
Co-Sponsors: Geneva Centre for Security Policy, the Geneva Peacebuilding Platform, United Nations University Center for Policy Research, and the Stimson Center
From 22-23 September 2024, the United Nations will convene the Summit of the Future at the start of the UN General Assembly. Through its "Pact for the Future'' outcome document and related instruments (e.g., a Declaration on Future Generations, a Global Digital Compact, and the New Agenda for Peace), the Summit is expected to reach agreement among the UN's 193 Member States, with the support of civil society partners, in the five major areas of: 1) Sustainable Development & Financing For Development; 2) International Peace and Security; 3) Science, Technology and Innovation and Digital Cooperation; 4) Youth and Future Generations;
and 5) Transforming Global Governance. In support of this effort, a UN-Civil Society Conference will be convened, from 9-10 May in Nairobi, to build awareness, generate civil society input, and coordinate with capitals and key stakeholders toward the Summit of the Future. To update interested organizations in International Geneva on opportunities for civil society to further engage both the Summit of the Future preparations and related UN-Civil Society Conference, the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, the Geneva Peacebuilding Platform, UN University Centre for Policy Research, and the Stimson Center convened a ninety-minute in-person informal briefing at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy.
Transformative Futures in Peace and Security Prize & Fellowship
๐The Geneva Center for Security Policy
๐ 17 January 2024
Hosts: Creative Spark and Geopolitics & Global Futures Department at Geneva Center for Security Policy
Launched in the autumn of 2022, this award aims to recognize innovative concepts that demonstrate remarkable potential in tackling pressing challenges related to peace and security. The Global Governance Innovation Project submitted by members of the GGIN is proud to be the inaugural fist place awardee of this prize and two-month incubation fellowship at GCSP. Find out more about the fellowship here.
The three-member fellowship team delivered two presentations on the Global Governance Innovation Project (including the annual Global Governance Innovation Report, Global Governance Index, and Global Governance Survey) to GCSP staff and fellows, in addition to conducting interviews with diplomats and experts in International Geneva, Bern, and Basel for the purpose of refining and scaling-up the project.
Basel Peace Forum 2024
๐Basel
๐ 25-26 January 2024
The Basel Peace Forum is a Swiss initiative to further innovation in peacebuilding which is based in Basel, Switzerland. The 2024 edition of BPF featured a rich array of side program events including the 2024 Intergenerational Forum on Peace, Climate, Nuclear Disarmament and the UN Summit of the Future. The Intergenerational Forum was held in conjunction with the 2024 Peace, nuclear Abolition and Climate Engaged Youth (PACEY) Awards Ceremony.
Co-Chairs
- Marzhan Nurzhan. Deputy Director, Basel Peace Office.
- Alyn Ware. Director, Basel Peace Office.
Welcome
- Prof Andi Nidecker MD, President, Basel Peace Office.
Presentations
- Lukas Ott. Presidentโs Office, Basel-Stadt Kanton.
- Fabian Hamilton MP. Member of the UK House of Commons. Council Member of Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament (PNND)
- Nudhara Yusuf. Global Youth Coordinator, Coalition for the UN We Need. Coordinator, Global Governance Innovation Network
- Marie-Claire Graf. Co-founder, Youth Negotiators Academy. United Nations Youth Climate Champion of Switzerland.
- Margaret Kiener Nellen. PNND Council Member. Former Member of Swiss Parliament. Former Chair of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Committee on Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian Questions
- Nicolas Cavadini, President of UN Youth Association of Switzerland.
- Ramiz Bakhtiar. Coordinator, Peace in our Schools Georgia (Winner 2023 PACEY Award). Former Afghanistan youth ambassador to the UN. Joint coordinator, Network of Former Youth Delegates to the United Nations.
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