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Sustaining Peace

World leaders gather at Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ to renew commitment to build and sustain peace

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Calling for more diplomacy, dialogue and mediation to head off conflicts before they break out, United Nations officials urged a gathering of world leaders on Tuesday to help strengthen a new approach to sustaining peace, which aims to put prevention at the heart of the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ¡¯s work.

¡®Save peace while it lasts,¡¯ says General Assembly President, ahead of Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ summit on sustaining peace

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It is expected to be the largest gathering of Heads of State and Government and Ministers at Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Headquarters since the General Debate in September 2017, and a ¡°key legacy¡± event for Mr. ?Laj?¨¢k¡¯s presidency, as his spokesman put it.

The meeting will be held in line with ¡°twin¡± resolutions in 2016 of the General Assembly and the Security Council on the review of the United Nations peacebuilding architecture. These resolutions renew the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ¡¯s commitment to conflict prevention as embodied in the?.

A New Approach To Peace by Miroslav Laj?¨¢k, President of the United Nations General Assembly

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By Miroslav Laj?¨¢k

16 April 2018

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When the United Nations was created, its founders envisioned a different kind of world.

A world in which disputes were resolved in meeting rooms and not battlefields. A world in which wars were stopped before they broke out. A world that didn¡¯t wait for lives to be lost before springing into action.

President of the General Assembly briefs the Peacebuilding Commission on his upcoming High-level meeting on peacebuilding and sustaining peace

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8 Mar 2018?-? The President of the General Assembly briefed the Peacebuilding Commission on the preparations for the High-level meeting on peacebuilding and sustaining peace scheduled for 24-25 April 2018.

The video of this informal meeting is available at ?

¡®Instead of responding to crises, we need to invest far more in prevention,¡¯ says Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ chief

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The imbalance between spending on conflict, and spending on peace, must be tackled head-on, Secretary-General Ant¨®nio Guterres said Monday, urging the United Nations to rally all international actors ¡°for our efforts across the peace continuum ¨C from prevention, conflict resolution and peacekeeping to peacebuilding and sustainable long-term development.¡±