The Assistant Secretary-General for Peacebuilding Support, Elizabeth Spehar, visited Sweden from 15 – 17 May to engage with Government counterparts and to participate in the Stockholm Forum on Peace and Development. With the Director General for International Development Cooperation at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, ASG Spehar discussed Sweden’s longstanding partnership with DPPA and Sweden’s role as a champion of prevention and peacebuilding. She also met with other partners, including the Folke Bernadotte Academy, the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation and the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). At the Stockholm Forum, organized by SIPRI, ASG Spehar spoke at a high-level panel about the transformational shifts needed to strengthen multilateralism to address today’s challenges, alongside fellow panelists SIPRI Chair Stefan Löfven and Afghan political leader and women’s rights activist Fatima Gailani. The ASG emphasized political will as one of the key ingredients needed, as well as the principles of trust, solidarity and universality. See the video here.