Special lecture on global citizenship by Ambassador Hahn to the MA students from Harvard University majoring in international education policy.  © Hyun June Chung, MA student from Harvard University
Hahn Choonghee

Multilateral Diplomacy and Global Citizenship

The international community should discuss how global citizenship education on can be inclusive and respectful, universal in its principles and local in its impact, and how it can equip all learners with the capacities and qualities necessary to address the complex problems facing humanity today.

Mayor Marvin Rees. © Bristol City Council 
Marvin Rees

At the Nexus between Reducing Inequality and Realizing Global Citizenship

Linking to cities around the world and learning how we best approach the challenges of urbanization, such as housing, transport and social care, will help us to improve our own delivery. We can avoid repeating mistakes others have made, and can apply their learning in our own neighbourhoods, while standing ready to share our own.

New York City held its first Disability Pride parade on 12 July 2015, marking the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, signed into law on 26 July 1990. © UN Photo/Devra Berkowitz
Annie Baghdayan

Breaking Barriers for Persons with Disabilities and Realizing Global Citizenship

As a first step, we need to disavow low expectations for people with disabilities. We must treat them as smart, talented, productive individuals who have as much to contribute to the workforce as anyone else.

David Brazier and Natasha Souza

Partnerships for Progress: Non-traditional Resources for Peacekeeping Technology

The Information and Communications Technology Division (ICTD) of the Department of Field Support (DFS) in New York Headquarters is evolving as the natural conduit for transforming such technology on the ground, for harnessing and engaging non-traditional sources of funding, reaching out into new areas such as public-private partnerships, leveraging advances in corporate research and development programmes and establishing technology think-tank dialogues.

Timi Ećimović

The philosophy of true harmony in global citizenship

The information in this presentation is based on my digital books: The Citizen of the Earth XXI, published December 2016; The Philosophy of the Life 2017, published 28 July 2017; The Climate Change System 2017, published April 2017; and The Nature 2017, published January 2017.

Global Nomads Group workshop on Virtual Reality during PLURAL+2016 Festival. © Hernan Valle
Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser

Media and Information Literacy as a Means of Preventing Violent Extremism

UNAOC understands that censoring media which is perceived as potentially harmful will not effectively curtail the spread of media messages appealing to youth with violent extremist narratives.

Men from a community of displaced persons who rented land for the rainy season in Dali close to Tawila, fleeing the heavy fighting that took place in Shangil Tobaya, North Darfur in 2011. © UN Photo/Albert González Farrán
Monique Barbut

A Way Back

We can jump-start economic and employment opportunities for young people and rural populations by creatively building on the sustainable development and inclusive growth opportunities laid out in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The Initiative on Sustainability, Stability and Security (3S) in Africa launched in 2016 by Morocco and Senegal is a good example.

Kapinga Yvette Ngandu

The Panel of the Wise:Its Role in Preventing Violent Conflicts in Africa

The Panel of the Wise's role in preventing the outbreak of violent conflicts in Africa was meant to provide information and analysis on the experiences, to date, of an important pillar of APSA. The objective was to discuss the gradual institutionalization of the Panel over the last 10 years and provide reflections that can inform the Panel's operations in the future.

Elizabeth P. Buensuceso

The ASEAN Institute for Peace and Reconciliation and Its Role in Preventing Crises

AIPR is still in its formative stage. In the coming years, it has the potential to play a significant role in promoting knowledge sharing and policy recommendations to help foster peace and reconciliation and the prevention of crises in ASEAN.

Rashid Alimov

The Role of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in Counteracting Threats to Peace and Security

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) was established as a multilateral association to ensure security and maintain stability across the vast Eurasian region, join forces to counteract emerging challenges and threats, and enhance trade, as well as cultural and humanitarian cooperation.

Force Commander Lund. Cyprus, April 2015. © UNFICYP
Kristin Lund and Laura Mitchell

Preventing Crisis and Conflict: Women's Role in Ongoing Peace Processes

Women play a variety of roles in complex, multitrack peace processes. They can sit at the formal negotiating table, on a technical committee or subcommission, or they can be outside the talks engaged as civil society actors in following developments. All of these roles are critical.

Vinod Saighal

The Ingredients of Prevention

The present great power policies are not conducive to peace in the world. A continuance of these policies threatens to dismantle the existing global order and plunge the world into deepening distress—for human beings as well as for the health of the planet.

Farid Zarif

Advancing the Debate on a Culture of Conflict Prevention

Prompt political interventions give time for actors in society to come to terms with change and think differently about old problems. For example, during the first half of 2016, UNMIL mobilized to diffuse potential conflict between Liberian Christian and Muslim communities which emerged from the country's constitutional review process promoting a constitutional amendment defining Liberia as a Christian nation.

Maher Nasser

Foreword

With this issue of the UN Chronicle, we hope to help inform the discussion on the culture of prevention, and contribute to the objective of strengthening and sustaining peace and security, human rights, the rule of law, and development, for current and future generations.

A student protest demanding increased dialogue in decision-making processes at the National Autonomous University of Honduras, 2016. © CLADE Archives 
Camilla Croso

Empowering Civil Society in Latin America to Promote Equality and Prevent Conflict

Data shows that among the 25 countries with the highest rates of femicide in the world, 14 are in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).The region also has very high rates of violence against the LGBTQ community, although it has some of the most progressive laws for LGBTQ equality and protection.