Recording: Peace is the cure: How SDG 16 can help salvage the 2030 Agenda in the wake of COVID-19
One Wednesday 4th November, we held an event in partnership with Interational Alert and the British Council to hear the main findings from the report ‘Peace is the cure: How SDG 16 can help salvage the 2030 Agenda in the wake of COVID-19’.
We were joined by a brilliant panel of speakers, who discussed how it might be possible to correct the course of the 2030 Agenda so that it helps ensure those living in fragile and conflict-affected contexts are not left behind, dampens down the potential for far greater and more durable violent conflict, and reinforces responses and longer-term resilience to the COVID-19 pandemic. Nigeria was used as a case study to discuss the realities of how the SDGs are tracking on the ground.
Speakers:
Julian Egan, Head of Advocacy and Communications, International Alert
Samuel Rizk, Head of Conflict Prevention, Peacebuilding & Responsive Institutions, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Wangari Wanjau, Nigeria Country Director, International Alert
Christine Wilson, Head of Research, British Council
Chaired by Rt. Hon. Lord Jack McConnell, Co-Chair, APPG on the UN Global Goals for Sustainable Development.
About the report
Peace is the cure: how SDG 16 can help salvage the 2030 Agenda in the wake of COVID-19 is a new report by International Alert, in partnership with the British Council.
This report argues that, if a leveraged focus on SDG 16 was necessary before COVID-19, it is imperative now – not just in salvaging the 2030 Agenda in the places where it matters most, but also in damping down the potential for far greater and more durable violent conflict.
The report argues that the 2030 Agenda will fail, unless it places SDG 16 and peacebuilding at its heart and truly begins to meet the challenges of those living in conflict.