Geneva Peacebuilding Platform

31/05/2026

27/05/2026

13/05/2026

💻 ONLINE EVENT - How are human rights obligations in the arms trade reshaping risk for institutional investors?

📅 28 May | ⌚ 10:00 - 11:30 EDT | 16:00 - 17:30 CET | 🌐 Online (Zoom)

Join us for an online discussion co-hosted by the Geneva Peacebuilding Platform, Heartland Initiative, Inc., Essex Business and Human Rights Project, and St. Mary's University.

Our discussion will feature Dr. Tara Van Ho, Associate Professor of Law at St. Mary’s University (Texas), who will present her research on the human rights responsibilities of the arms industry, regulating States, and the investors that support them.

Sam Jones, President of Heartland Initiative and Anil Yilmaz Vastardis, Senior Lecturer at Essex Law School and Human Rights Centre will then provide critical responses to her work and drawing on the UNGPs and the ATT to jointly explore:

➡️ Legal and human rights risks in the global arms trade

➡️ What these mean for investors and financial institutions

➡️ Emerging expectations on due diligence and stewardship

For any questions to the panel, add them into the registration form or contact Florence Foster ★ - who will be moderating this timely and fascinating debate ([email protected]).

🔗 Register here: https://www.gpplatform.ch/en/events-and-news/events/how-are-human-rights-obligations-in-the-arms-trade-reshaping-risk-for-institutional-investors

13/05/2026

The Geneva Peacebuilding Platform is pleased to partner with Fight for Humanity , DCAF and the City of Geneva for a discussion on 🇨🇴 Colombia, A Forgotten Conflict? Truth, Dialogue and Local Peace Initiatives
�📅 Tuesday, May 19�📍 DCAF, Maison de la Paix (pétale 5), 9th floor, Geneva and online �🕥 10:30–12:00

The event will be introduced by:
🗣️ M. Alfonso Gomez, Mayor of Geneva
🗣️ Dr Annyssa Bellal, Executive Director of the GPP

Followed by a discussion with:
🗣️ Ambassador Gustavo Gallón to the Permanent Mission of Colombia in Geneva
🗣️ Enric Gonyalons, Senior Manager at DCAF
🗣️ Mabel Andrade, Director of Colombian NGO Gestos de Paz

➡️ Register here: https://www.gpplatform.ch/en/events-and-news/events/colombia-a-forgotten-conflict-truth-dialogue-and-local-peace-initiatives

11/05/2026

🌿 The Geneva Peacebuilding Platform is delighted to participate in the Caux Arts and Peace Encounters 2026: Creation in a Time of Rupture, taking place from 10–13 May 2026 at the Caux Palace, Switzerland.

We are also pleased to continue our partnership with the Caux Initiatives of Change Foundation as part of the upcoming 2026, where we will host an event on Arts and Peace, building on conversations and collaborations initiated during the Arts and Peace Encounters at 2024 and 2025.

The Caux Arts and Peace Encounters bring together artists such as Karim Wasfi, peacebuilders, educators, and practitioners to explore the transformative power of creativity in peacebuilding. This year’s edition continues to deepen the conversation on how imagination, empathy, and artistic practice can help respond to conflict and rupture in our world today.

At a time when peacebuilding increasingly requires new ways of seeing and engaging, we are inspired by spaces like Caux that bring together diverse voices and disciplines — from diplomacy to the arts — to co-create more human, inclusive, and innovative approaches to peace.

We look forward to contributing to this vibrant gathering and to continuing to explore how arts and creativity can open new pathways for peace.

08/05/2026

⏳Only a few days remain to submit your proposal for 2026, taking place from 12–15 October in Geneva and online.

This year’s theme, “Choose Peace,” invites diverse actors to come together and contribute to meaningful dialogue and collaboration.

✨ Propose your event format:
• Workshops
• Panels
• Interactive sessions
• Networking opportunities

📅Application deadline: 15 May 2026

🔗Submit your proposal: www.genevapeaceforum.org/call-for-applications

✨ is evolving into the ,stay tuned for the new logo and name change on 11 May!

07/05/2026

🎬 Ciné-débat | Suisse–Algérie : le rôle discret des deux États dans la résolution de la crise des otages américains en Iran (1979–1981)

Le Geneva Peacebuilding Platform vous invite à un ciné-débat organisé en partenariat avec Diverscités, consacré à un épisode marquant de la diplomatie internationale et aux efforts de médiation menés par la Suisse et l’Algérie durant la crise des otages en Iran (1979–1981, 444 jours, 52 otages).

À travers projection, échanges et table ronde, cet événement explore l’art discret de la diplomatie et sa pertinence aujourd’hui.

📽️ Au programme :
🔹 Projection du documentaire Ambassade suivie d’un échange avec le réalisateur Daniel Wyss
🔹 Présentation du rôle de l’Algérie dans la médiation et les Accords d’Alger
🔹 Table ronde : L’art de la diplomatie : hier et aujourd’hui

👉 Plus d’informations :
https://www.gpplatform.ch/en/events-and-news/events/switzerland-algeria-the-discreet-role-of-the-two-states-in-resolving-the-american-hostage-crisis-in-iran-1979-1981

🎬 Film screening & discussion | Switzerland–Algeria: the discreet role of two states in resolving the US hostage crisis in Iran (1979–1981)

The Geneva Peacebuilding Platform, in partnership with Diverscités, invites you to a film screening and discussion on the Iran hostage crisis (1979–1981, 444 days, 52 hostages) and the discreet mediation efforts led by Switzerland and Algeria.

Through film, dialogue, and reflection, the event explores the art of diplomacy and its relevance today.

📽️ Programme highlights:
🔹 Screening of Ambassade, followed by a discussion with director Daniel Wyss
🔹 Presentation on Algeria’s mediation role and the Algiers Accords
🔹 Roundtable: The art of diplomacy: past and present

👉 More information:
https://www.gpplatform.ch/en/events-and-news/events/switzerland-algeria-the-discreet-role-of-the-two-states-in-resolving-the-american-hostage-crisis-in-iran-1979-1981

05/05/2026

🌍 Join us for a discussion on Peace Work amid the Polycrisis: Reorienting the Field for the Challenges of Tomorrow, co-organized with the Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding.

📅 12 May 2026 | ⏰ 12:30–14:00 (CET)
📍 Room S2, The Geneva Graduate Institute & Online

How do we build peace in a world shaped by overlapping crises?

As global challenges grow more complex and interconnected, the field of peacebuilding is being pushed to evolve. From post-Cold War dynamics to post-9/11 realities—and now to an era defined by polycrisis—what does effective peace work look like today, and what must it become tomorrow?

Join us for a thought-provoking discussion with Gearoid Millar, Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at University of Aberdeen. Drawing on insights from 99 interviews with leading academics and practitioners, he will explore:
🔹 How the peacebuilding field is adapting (or struggling to adapt) to rising complexity
🔹 The growing concerns about its relevance and coherence
🔹 What transformations are needed to respond to today’s escalating crises

👉 Join us in person or online: https://www.gpplatform.ch/en/events-and-news/events/peace-work-amid-the-polycrisis-reorienting-the-field-for-the-challenges-of-tomorrow