QUNO New York newsletter from June 2013.

Features articles on:

• Letter from the Director
• Update from QUNO Geneva
• Beijing Meeting on UN Peacemaking, Peacekeeping, and Peacebuilding
• A Workshop for Incoming Members of the UN Peacebuilding Commission
• The Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues Comes to New York
• Update on the Post-2015 Development Agenda
• QUNO Annual Review

The statement encourages the Independent Expert to consider the following:

• The role that peacebuilding approaches can play in fulfilling procedural rights, in order to achieve both substantive rights and effective environmental poliy, and
• How small farmers, rural communities and marginalised sections of society can effectively participate in consultation and decision-making processes that relate to their environment.

QUNO New York newsletter from September 2012.

Features articles on:

• Fast-moving Changes in Myanmar
• Letter from the Director
• Update from QUNO Geneva
• What Will Replace the Millennium Development Goals?
• West Africa Reconciliation Conference
• Grassroots Reconciliation in Burundi
• QUNO-NY Staff Update

QUNO New York newsletter from June 2012.

Features articles on:

• New Directions: Exploring Alternatives for a Peaceful Solution in Somalia
• Letter from the Director
• The joint QUNO Review
• Consolidating Peace in Liberia and Sierra Leone
• Sixth World Conference of Friends
• Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
• Update from QUNO Geneva
• Meet Elisabeth
• PA Corner

QUNO New York newsletter from December 2011.

Features articles on:

• UN experts from China
• Letter from the Director
• Letter from QUNO Geneva
• Programme Assistant Corner
• Restorative Justice and Peacebuilding
• Prevention Seminar with the Security Council
• Quaker Collaboration on the Horn of Africa

A joint statement of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), the Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL), and the Quaker United Nations Office(QUNO) in New York  on the Palestinian quest for statehood recognition at the United Nations in September 2011. Includes recommendations for the Obama Administration and U.S. Congress.

Remarks given by QUNO New York Director Andrew Tomlinson at the "Workshop for Incoming Members of the UN Peacebuilding Commission (PBC)."

The workshop was co-hosted by the International Peace Institute and QUNO New York in collaboration with the UN Peacebuilding Support Office. Workshop topics included:

• Building National Capacity
• Resource Mobilization
• Instruments of Engagement

Presented by QUNO New York Director Andrew Tomlinson at the EU-ISS seminar entitled “Peacebuilding and the Security-Development Nexus,” with a particular focus on the United Nations Peacebuilding Architecture including the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC).

This paper aims to demonstrate that peacebuilding initiatives can be led by local rather than international players and that this approach can work successfully on a large scale. The paper summarises four peacebuilding initiatives, all more or less locally led, which have operated on a large scale, and which have had real impact in ending violent conflict. It sets out steps that could be taken to move from current practice, in which local capacity for peacebuilding is viewed as marginal, to one where it is regarded as a central element of any strategy for managing conflict.