PBC Chair’s Remarks: Stockholm Forum on Peace and Development “Promoting Peace in the Age of Compound Risk”, for Panel “Good Peacebuilding Financing: Doing More, Doing Better”, 5 May 2021
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I thank the Stockholm Forum organizers for inviting me to this timely discussion and I am pleased to address this panel as the Chair of the United Nations Peacebuilding Commission.
Given the strong case for peacebuilding and sustaining peace that has been made time and time again, there is indeed a mismatch between rhetoric and reality. Peacebuilding is chronically underfunded and peacebuilding financing remains unpredictable and heavily dependent on a small group of donors. As we all know, Official Development Assistance to conflict-affected countries has been under severe pressure, and has worsened as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, we acutely need to “double down” and prioritize peacebuilding financing and achieve maximum effect for our investments.
Issuing Presidential Statement, Security Council Expresses Concern about Devastating Impact of COVID-19 on Africa, Urges Greater Cooperation (S/PRST/2021/10)
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Pandemic Feeding Many Drivers of Conflict, Instability Says Secretary-General
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Through a presidential statement (document S/PRST/2021/10) issued at the meeting’s outset by Wang Yi, State Councillor and Minister for Foreign Affairs of China, which holds the 15-member Council’s rotating Presidency in May delegates expressed their concern over those developments. They reiterated the need to enable equitable acc
Ejeviome Eloho Otobo and Oseloka H. Obaze argue that the pressing need is to devolve policing powers to the states
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[IPS] United Nations The United Nations Peacebuilding Commission must prioritise the protection of youth activists who face retaliation from state and non-state actors, said UN Youth Envoy Jayathma Wickramanayake.
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