Global Futures Forum and Peoples Pact for the Future:

Peace and Security Proposals

Proposals submitted for the Peace and Security theme for the Global Futures Forum, New Agenda for Peace and Summit of the Future

A. War prevention and International Law

A1: Preventing war including nuclear war. Strengthening international mechanisms for the peaceful resolution of conflicts

Submission by Aotearoa Lawyers for Peace, Basel Peace Office, UNFOLD ZERO and World Future Council

A2: Peace Constitutions and ICJ jurisdiction to implement the UN Charter prohibition on war

Submitted by Abolish War 2045 campaign

A3: Transferring veto-blocked Security Council items to UNGA and use of UN Charter Article 99

Proposals of the Peacemaking Reflection Group, submitted by Georgios Kostakos

A4: Establishing a procedure for making UNGA resolutions binding

Submitted by Kerstin Leitner

A5: Elect the (Security) Council initiative

Submitted by Jakkie Cilliers, African Futures & Innovation

A6: Open State System for the UN

Proposed by Savannah Center

A7: Mandatory peace settlement plan/meetings hosted by the UN in response to war

Submitted by Colin Mitchell

A8: UN Security Council reform and Strengthening UNGA authority

Submitted by Kinley Penjor

A9: Renewing the International Trusteeship System to help resolve certain territorial disputes

Submitted by Aaron Tovish

A10: United Nations to Apply the Rule of Law to Ukraine

Submitted by David Swanson, World Beyond War

B. Disarmament for peace and sustainable development

B1: Implementing Article 26 of the UN Charter through plans and action for disarmament to release resources for economic and social development

Submission by Aotearoa Lawyers for Peace, Basel Peace Office, Move the Nuclear Weapons Money campaign, UNFOLD ZERO, Western States Legal Foundaton and World Future Council

B2: Including nuclear abolition in the post-2030 SDGs, with the goal of complete elimination by 2045

Hiroshima Organisation for Global Peace (HOPe)

- Also proposed by Aotearoa Lawyers for Peace, Basel Peace Office, UNFOLD ZERO and World Future Council​​
B3: Supporting the Political Declaration on Protection of Civilians from the use of Explosive Weapons in Populated Areas

Michael Beer, Nonviolence International

B4: “No Killer Robots!” Negotiation and adoption of a Treaty on Autonomous Weapons Systems

Michael Beer, Nonviolence International

C. Peace building/conflict resolution and human security

C1: United Nations Emergency Peace Service

Proposed by Dr. H. Peter Langille, Sustainable Common Security.

- Also proposed by World Federalist Movement Canada
C2: Global Resilience Council and Unarmed Observer Corps

Proposals of the Peacemaking Reflection Group, submitted by Georgios Kostakos

C3: Unarmed Civilian Protection. Enhance Truth and Reconciliation Efforts

Submitted by Jacopo DeMarinis, Citizens for Global Solutions

- Also proposed and supported by Gay Rosenblum-Kumar, Nonviolent Peaceforce​
C4: Non-violent Civilian Defence

Submitted by Michel Monod

C5: National Unarmed Defence Forces

Submitted by David Swanson, World Beyond War

C6: Establishing an online portal for early warnings, risk analyses and policy recommendations of key NGOs for prevention of mass atrocities

Submitted by Dr Eyal Mayroz, Genocide Prevention Advisory Network

C7: Reporting mechanisms for local changemakers, auditing common and human security objectives in UN security fora

Submission by the TEAR Fund

C8: Enhancing use of 'conflict transformation', sustained dialogue’ and ‘deep listening’ tools for decision-making within UN Security and Peace fora (e.g. the UNSC)

Submission by the TEAR Fund

C9: Inclusion of feminism in military operations

Submitted by Shweta Bhatnagar

C10: Upgrading the Peacebuilding Commission into an empowered Peacebuilding Council

Submitted by Richard Ponzio

C11: Elevating the Humanitarian-Development-Peacebuilding Nexus in the New Agenda for Peace

Submitted by Georgios Kostakos, Peace-making Reflection Group, FOGGS

C12: UN Security Council oversight to improve implementation of UNSC 2250 (Youth, Peace and Security) in conflict regions

Submitted by Jospin Amani, Solisarite pour l'Encadrement et Lurtte Contre la Pauvrete

D. Human Rights, Peace and National Rule of Law

D1: Ensuring human rights observed in processes addressing conflicts and conflict resolution

Submitted by Jacob Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights

D2: Advancing the human rights to peace, nuclear abolition and climate protection (in the ICJ and Human Rights Council)

Submitted by Aotearoa Lawyers for Peace, Basel Peace office, Hawai’i Institute for Human Rights and World Future Council

D3: Supporting regional human rights mechanisms

Submitted by Joshua Cooper, Hawai’i Institute for Human Rights

D4: Recognising the Right to Dream as a Human Right

Submitted by Myrian Castello

D5: Assistance to UN member states to improve their legal systems under the UN principles of the Rule of Law

Submitted by Göran Lambertz

E. Environmental security and governance

E1: Repurposing the Trusteeship Council to provide governance for the global commons

Submitted by David Hales, Chair of the Climate Action Task Force at the Parliament of the World’s Religions

- Also supported in The Road to 2023: Our Common Agenda and the Pact for the Future, by The Stimson Center.​
- Also supported by Nonviolence International but with addition of Trusteeship Council mandate to include Artificial Intelligence and Genetic Engineering. ​
E2: Eliminating Security Council veto and establishing three additional 'security' councils: Peacebuilding, Climate Security and Health Security

Proposed by Prof. Dr. Vesselin Popovski, Centre of the Study of the UN;

- Supported in the proposal in Section A submitted by the Savannah Centre.​
E3: Employ Environmental Peace-building practices

Submitted by Jacopo DeMarinis, Citizens for Global Solutions

E4: Ministries and Departments of Peace

Submitted by Gray Southon and the Global Alliance for Ministries and Infrastructures for Peace (GAMIP)

F. Youth, Education, Building a Culture of Peace, Cooperation, Trust Building and Positive Peace

F1: Promoting peace through International Relations

Submitted by Gray Southon

F2: Establishing an education program for young parliamentarians focusing on the UN and peaceful resolution of conflict

Submitted by Kerstin Leitner

F3: Young Patriot as Peacekeepers: Digital Literacy and Cultural Diplomacy

Submitted by Diana Nur Izati

F4: Empowering youths as agents of peacebuilders and peacemakers global

Submitted by Malaysian Youth Diplomacy.

G. Financing for peace

G1: Commit to providing the necessary resources to apply the UN’s Human Rights Due Diligence Policy and fund the Special Advisor on Genocide and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

Submitted by Jacob Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights

- Supported in the proposal by Suen Elere, with addition of commitment to financially support the recommendations of the UNSGs report Peacebuilding and sustaining peace
G2: Shifting budgets and investments from militarism to instead support climate protection, peace, public health and sustainable development (Same as Proposal B1 above)

Submission by Aotearoa Lawyers for Peace, Basel Peace Office, Move the Nuclear Weapons Money, UNFOLD ZERO and World Future Council

Late submission

New Agenda for Peace Based on Nonviolence

Submitted by Mary Yelenick and Marie Dennis, Pax Christi International

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