SIPRI Searchlight: Towards Peace, Justice and Inclusive Governance by 2030 [Video]
Publisher: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Date: 2018
Topics: Conflict Causes, Governance
This new SIPRI film evaluates how far we have to go to achieve peace, justice and strong institutions in the world by 2030—one of the goals set by the United Nations in its sustainable development agenda set out in 2015. The film, which was produced as part of the SIPRI Searchlight series, highlights where there are positive signs of achieving peace while also providing warnings of where negative signals exist. It has been produced ahead of a planned intensified focus on sustaining peace by UN agencies over the next year. In particular, the High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development at the UN in July 2019 will put Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 16 in the spotlight, as will a ministerial-level summit in September during the UN General Assembly. The film reinforces the need to devise ways to monitor progress in the search for peace.
There is a clear concern raised throughout the film that current global trends are working against peacebuilders, particularly with regard to reducing violence everywhere—one of the key targets of SDG 16. The challenges explored include, but are not limited to: a lack of inclusion of populations in decision making, particularly youth globally; a lack of understanding of what causes structural violence; and the difficulty in convincing power holders to open up the political space.
The film is based on interviews recorded at the annual Stockholm Forum on Peace and Development, which brings together a range of viewpoints from different stakeholders in the peacebuilding community. This year the theme was ‘The Politics of Peace’.