UN Secretary-General Releases Our Common Agenda Policy Brief 9: A New Agenda for Peace

The UN Secretary-General António Guterres today revealed a new plan to promote international peace and prevent conflicts, outlining key action-oriented recommendations for UN Member States in order to uphold and strengthen the multilateral system as the only viable means to address an interlocking set of global threats and deliver on the promises of the Charter of the United Nations around the world.

Titled, “A New Agenda for Peace”, the new policy brief on Our Common Agenda outlines the Secretary-Generals vision to attain international peace which remains an elusive promise for many around the world, presenting 12 actions proposed to prevent, manage, and resolve conflicts.

The New Agenda for Peace is the ninth in a series of series of Policy Briefs the Secretary-General is issuing at the invitation of Member States to provide more detail on certain proposals contained in Our Common Agenda and to support them in their deliberations as they prepare for the Summit of the Future. These briefs will include an analysis of the proposals’ impact on the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals and will be informed by the United Nations Charter and the Universal Declaration on Human Rights, with gender equality as a cross-cutting theme.

“Peace is the driving force behind the work of the United Nations. Today’s new threats to peace create new demands on us. This Policy Brief is our attempt to meet those demands. I urge the Member States to debate the New Agenda for Peace and engage with our proposals,” said the UN chief. 

The Summit of the Future, in 2024, is an opportunity to agree on multilateral solutions for a better tomorrow, strengthening global governance for both present and future generations (General Assembly resolution 76/307). UN Secretary-General has been invited to provide inputs to the preparations for the Summit in the form of action-oriented recommendations, building on the proposals contained in his report entitled “Our Common Agenda” (A/75/982), which was itself a response to the declaration on the commemoration of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the United Nations (Assembly resolution 75/1) The present policy brief is one such input.