UN Summit of the Future: Consultations on International Peace and Security

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Global Futures Forum and the UN Summit of the Future:
Consultations on International Peace and Security

Online consultation meetings: February 16 and 23, 2023

Dear friends,

The United Nations General Assembly has decided to hold a Summit of the Future on 22-23 September 2024, preceded by a preparatory ministerial meeting at the United Nations in New York on 18 September 2023.

Coalition for the UN We Need (C4UN) is facilitating civil society input into the UN Summit and its preparatory process. This includes a Global Futures Forum on 20-21 March 2023, preparing a People’s Pact for the Future to be released in April 2023 and consultations on seven themes relating to the UN Summit.

UNFOLD ZERO invites you to register for the Global Futures Forum and to participate in the consultations on the International Peace and Security theme.

The Global Futures Forum will take place on March 20-21 as a hybrid event with in-person participation in New York plus online participation from around the world.

Peace and Security theme

The announcement last week that the Doomsday Clock has been set to 90 Seconds to Midnight indicates how important the Peace and Security theme is to humanity and the planet. Ensuring a peaceful future should be a priority of the United Nations and the Summit of the Future. In the Peace and Security consultations we will discuss how to make this happen.

The Peace and Security consultations will take place through an email list-serve (click here to join) and in online meetings on February 16 and 23 (details below).

For further information please see:

Global Futures Forum and Peoples Pact for the Future: Peace and Security theme: an introduction to the UN Summit of the Future and an outline of the Peace and Security Consultations;
Introduction to the Peace and Security theme; background on the UN peace and security agendas and an outline of various security frameworks.

Dates/Times for the online consultation meetings

There will be two online consultations for Peace and Security theme.

The first consultation will be on February 16 and will include an overview of the UN Summit of the Future process, discussion on the different frameworks on peace and security, and suggestions of Peace and Security proposals for the Peoples’ Pact for the Future and the Summit of the Future.

The second consultation will be on February 23. It will pick up suggestions/proposals that appear to have traction, discuss these further in order to consolidate them for passing on to the Global Futures Forum.

Each consultation will be held in two sessions: the first timed for participants from Asia/Pacific and the second timed for participants from the Americas/Africa/Europe/Middle East.

Session 1.A: Thursday February 16. 7am Central Europe Time (CET).
Timed to suit Asia/Pacific. Click here to register.
Session 1.B: Thursday February 16. 10:30 Eastern Time USA / 16:30 CET.
Timed to suit Americas/Africa/Europe/Middle East. Click here to register.
Session 2.A: Thursday February 23. 7am CET.
Timed to suit Asia/Pacific. Click here to register.
Session 2.B: Thursday February 23. 10:30 Eastern Time USA / 16:30 CET.
Timed to suit Americas/Africa/Europe/Middle East. Click here to register.

Peace and Security theme facilitators

The facilitators of the Peace and Security theme are:

Alyn Ware, World Future Council, UNFOLD ZERO, Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament and Aotearoa Lawyers for Peace;
Aline Burni, Foundation for European Progressive Studies;
Sofia Anton, Kofi Annan Foundation.

Yours sincerely
UNFOLD ZERO

Global Futures Forum and the UN Summit of the Future: Consultations on International Peace and Security

Peace and Security theme

Dates/Times for the online consultation meetings

Peace and Security theme facilitators

Global Futures Forum and the UN Summit of the Future:
Consultations on International Peace and Security