Geneva Peace Week: Annual Call for Events and Speakers

Apr 8, 2019 | Geneva Peace Week
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Geneva is a global hub for governance and international cooperation. It hosts 37 international organizations, a thriving community of non-governmental organizations and renowned academic and research institutions. It is also a diplomatic center with near universal representation of states. Together, all these actors work for peace, rights and wellbeing, touching the lives of individuals across the world. Geneva Peace Week offers an opportunity to connect and highlight the work of these actors and to expand the space for building peace and resolving conflict through dialogue and negotiation.

Geneva Peace Week emphasizes that each and every person, actor and institution has a role to play in building peace and resolving conflict. It recognizes that peacebuilding occurs in many different contexts and cuts across disciplines and sectors. In this sense, Geneva Peace Week breaks down professional silos in order to enable creative responses to violence, exclusion and insecurity.

By synchronizing meetings and events on different topics related to the promotion of peace during one week, Geneva Peace Week maximizes synergies between organizations in Geneva and their international partners, focusing on the cross-cutting nature of peace.

Geneva Peace Week 2019:

Geneva Peace Week 2019 (GPW19) aims to enhance the experience for event partners and participants based on the findings of a scoping study commissioned by the Geneva Peacebuilding Platform and supported by the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs. The study’s objectives were to inform the decision making about the development of Geneva Peace Week and to identify practical solutions to advance Geneva Peace Week in the years ahead. 

Application Process:

The deadline for event and speaker applications is Friday, 14 June 2019, COB.