Securing a peaceful future
Responding to a world in transition: A changing world demands a resilient response. The United Nations employs a diverse range of mechanisms and tools to prevent conflict, foster people-centered, peaceful resolutions, and build sustainable peace, including through diplomacy, mediation, disarmament, peacekeeping, peacebuilding, justice and the rule of law, to address the evolving threats to international peace and security.
Three takeaways from A New Agenda for Peace
A New Agenda for Peace is UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ vision for a more peaceful, secure world. It recommends concrete, clear actions to strengthen how the world works together to meet the security challenges of today and tomorrow.
What is nuclear disarmament?
Today, more than 12,000 nuclear weapons remain an existential threat to humanity. Learn more about what nuclear disarmament means and how global efforts have evolved over the years.
UN Police: a visual explainer
The United Nations partners with police services globally to maintain international peace and security. We look at one of the vital partnerships – UN Police – and why it matters.
Five practical tools for keeping peace
Peacekeepers use many tools to keep and nurture peace in the world’s most fragile places. What innovations help them protect the communities that they serve?
Climate, peace and security: what we need to know
Climate change affects us all, no matter where we live. It is particularly devastating for fragile countries and communities already facing conflict or humanitarian crises.
Wars destroy. Peace builds. In today’s troubled world, building peace is a conscious, bold and even radical act. It is humanity’s greatest responsibility.”
United Nations Secretary-General (ANTÓNIO GUTERRES, 7 July 2024)
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Visions for the future
The changing nature of armed conflict. Persistent violence outside of conflict. Rising inequalities. Shrinking civic space and the climate emergency are among the challenges facing the world today. Here are the voices of young peacemakers in the frontlines of change.
Voices for peace
Somalia: Women’s leadership for peace
In a society dominated by male-centric clan dynamics, Somali women are pushing for change by bridging divisions and fostering dialogue within the clan system.
Haiti: Sheltering girls against gender-based violence
A mostly volunteer-run shelter in Artibonite, in Haiti, an area marred by rising levels of violence, becomes a beacon of hope for survivors of gender-based violence.
Papua New Guinea: Building peace in the highlands
Community empowerment, climate resilience and peacebuilding are helping to address decades of inter-communal violence in the highlands of Papua New Guinea.
Key UN Events
International Day of Peace
Observed under the theme, “Cultivating a culture of peace,” the International Day calls on everyone to strive harder to promote dialogue, empathy and human rights in a world mired by conflict, inequalities and discrimination.
International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons
The International Day is a reminder that a peaceful future depends on ending the global nuclear threat and calls on countries to reaffirm their commitment to a world free of nuclear weapons and the suffering their use would unleash.
International Day of Non-Violence
The International Day observes the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, the leader of the Indian independence movement and pioneer of the philosophy and strategy of non-violence, who once said “non-violence is a weapon of the strong.”
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