LocationsUNDP at the Geneva Peace Week
September 19, 2025
Event Details
October 13, 2025
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October 17, 2025
Geneva Peace Week is a leading annual forum in the international peacebuilding calendar through which organizations in Geneva and their international partners come together to share knowledge and practice on a diverse range of topics related to peace across contexts and disciplines.
United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG) , The Permanent Mission of Switzerland
With the participation of Agi Veres, Director, UNDP Geneva office
- Panel discussion
- 15/10/2025 @ 09:00 - 10:30
- Conference Center C1 (pétale 5) – Hybrid
Taking place after the opening of the 80th session of the UN General Assembly and ahead of the UN’s 80th anniversary on 24 October 2025, this session aims to explore to what extent and how the UN remains indispensable and provides most effective pathway to address today’s complex global challenges.
United, Nations Development Programme (UNDP), United Nations Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs (DPPA), SDC Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation with the participation of Shoko Noda, Assistant Secretary General and Director of UNDP Crisis Bureau.
- UNDP Flagship event
- 15/10/2025 @ 11:00 - 12:30
- GCSP 5th floor (petal 4) - Hybrid
Prevention is most powerful when it starts voluntarily and at home. This panel will spotlight how national actors are leading the way—and how international support, partnerships, and financing can help transform national prevention initiatives into sustainable peace.
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and The Folke Bernadotte Academy (FBA)
- Exhibition launch
- 14/10/2025 @ 16:30 - 17:00
- GCSP 4th floor (pétale 4) - In-person
UNIDIR’s Managing Exits from Armed Conflict Initiative, UNDP, IOM, and DPO, with the participation of Dr Glaucia Boyer, Global Advisor on Stabilization and Reintegration
- 15/10/2025 @ 09:00 - 10:30
- Conference Center C3 (pétale 5) - in person
In 2020, the Data Strategy of the United Nations Secretary-General for Action by Everyone, Everywhere called upon the international community to nurture “data as a strategic asset for insight, impact and integrity.” Translating these commitments into practice remains inconsistent and inadequate, particularly in insecure contexts and with hard-to-reach populations. This challenge is evident in UN interventions to prevent and respond to armed conflict. The purpose of this workshop is to set out the priorities and address the challenges of building an integrated data structure to undergird UN efforts to support the return of conflict-affected populations and ex-associates of armed groups that are reintegrating back into civilian life.
Co-organised by the Global Youth Caucus on SDG16, the Migration Youth and Children Platform (MYCP), the Major Group for Children and Youth (MGCY), the International Association of Youth and Students for Peace (IAYSP), and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) with the participation of Joost Van Der Zwan, Senior Policy Advisor, Governance, Rule of Law and Peacebuilding Hub – UNDP.
- 16/10/2025 @ 13:00 - 14:30
- Conference Center C3 (petale 5) - In-person
This workshop provides an interactive space to explore pathways for strengthening youth inclusion in peace and mediation processes.
Center on Armed Groups, United Nations Department of Peace Operations (UNDPO), DDR Section New York United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Crisis Bureau New York/Geneva with the participation of Simon Yazgi, UNDP consultant.
- 16/10/2025 @ 15:00 - 16:30
- GCSP 4th floor (petale 4) - Hybrid
This session aims to shed light on the unique challenges that women members of armed groups face when they aspire to become political leaders in the aftermath of armed conflict. While women are already excluded from formal political leadership roles in many contexts due to patriarchal power structures, women associated with armed groups most often face additional challenges connected to their stigmatisation as ex-combatants, having lived outside of the conventional structures of society for a prolonged time, and a lack of financial resources. Conventional DDR programmes have done little to address women’s needs to pursue their political agency after war but have often replicated or even exacerbated their pre-war situations.
