Discovering Geneva’s Peacebuilding Potential

Published: October 1, 2007, 5:00 am

Tags: peacebuilding, peacebuilding commission, international geneva peacebuilding guide, geneva, atwood

In 1995, when 50th anniversaries were everywhere, I was asked to give a speech on 50 years of peace. My first reaction was to think that I'd misunderstood the title.How could anyone look at the world in 1995 and describe the previous 50 years as having been peaceful? But then I began to think about the institutions, norms and treaties that existed in 1995 that could only have been imagined by the visionaries and pragmatists who sought to put in place the peace system that was intended by the founding of the United Nations. As I did so, I began to see the increasingly complex web that has been woven among peoples and nations to build security and overcome war.This web may be thin, or even absent, in many places, but it nevertheless represents a constant striving that, despite serious setbacks and dire threats, provides us with the means with which societies can function and sometimes thrive, rather than decline and perish.In 2005, the nations of the world took another

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