Geneva Peace Week 2022

Oct 31, 2022 - Nov 4, 2022 | Geneva Peacebuilding Platform
Geneva, Switzerland and online
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Geneva Peace Week is a leading annual forum in the international peacebuilding calendar in which organizations in Geneva and their international partners come together to share knowledge and practice on a diverse range of topics relating to the promotion of peace across contexts and disciplines.

 Geneva Peace Week 2022 will take place both in-person and also online. GPW will seek to create an increased number of spaces for physical, in-person meetings for professionals who are able to attend in Geneva (up to 15). Meanwhile, recognizing that GPW has reached new audiences, the forum will also prioritize the participation of attendees who are based in cities outside of Geneva (over 70% of participants in 2021). There will be an opportunity to participate as an organizer of a Workshop or a Digital Series production. The Selection Committee will accept the highest quality of applications for approximately 25 workshops (up to 15 in-person), and 25 contributions to the adapted Digital Series. The thematic tracks will be the same for both Workshops and for the Digital Series.  Thematic Direction The overarching theme of GPW22 is ‘Peace is Possible'. Geneva Peace Week 2022 will continue to build upon the thematic discussions that emerged in 2021, while creating spaces for contextualizing and discussing recent local and geopolitical developments, and how they impact the work of those working towards a more peaceful and just society globally. The thematic tracks for GPW22 have been developed and adjusted to build upon discussions from 2021, and to take them a step further.  The organizing consortium proposes the following thematic tracks to guide content and conversation at GPW22: 
  1. Rights, Inequalities and Peace: navigating tensions, finding opportunities
  2. Moving beyond securitization: Risk management and new horizons for peacebuilding
  3. Digital Peace: The Power and Limits of Innovation in Peacebuilding
  4. Cultivating cooperation: Environmental challenges and opportunities for peace in a new age of insecurity
  GPW22 will feature a number of sessions on environmental peacebuilding.  More details will be made available once the agenda is published.