Read QUNO New York’s November 2021 newsletter, In & Around the UN, featuring articles on:

• UN General Assembly 76: Forecasting the Year Ahead
• Committee Spotlight with Aletia Dundas
• QUNO Co-Hosts Virtual Dialogue on Prevention with UN, Civil Society, and Member States

And more from New York.

Read QUNO New York’s newsletter, In & Around the UN, featuring articles on:

• Building Peace through Reconciliation
• Supporting Country-level UN Capacities for Prevention
• 15 Years of UN Peacebuilding

and more from New York.

Read QUNO New York's March 2020 newsletter, In & Around the UN, featuring articles on:

• Bridging the Gap between Peace and Human Rights
• Civil-Society UN Prevention Platform Launches a Discussion Series on Prevention
• Future of the Peacebuilding Fund

and more from New York.

Read QUNO New York’s newsletter, In & Around the UN, featuring articles on:

• Landmark changes to the UN system
• Attending FWCC Section of the Americas Meeting
• Partnering with the UN to strengthen inclusive approaches for peace

and more from New York.

QUNO New York's quarterly newsletter, featuring articles on:

• Peacebuilding orgs and future challenges
• Letter from the Director
• The role of civil society in conflict prevention

...and more!

On a recent visit to Beirut, Andrew Tomlinson, Director of QUNO New York, was invited to offer some reflections on reconciliation to a group of experts engaged in regional humanitarian and development action.

The presentation emphasized that reconciliation is a multi-generational process, that it is applicable wherever there are divided societies (at any level of development), that it has as much to do with prevention as it does with post conflict recovery, with the future as much as the past. Furthermore, while reconciliation is intimately connected with structural issues of inclusion and social justice in the longer term, at any one point in time the key is often to identify practical and realistic actions that, while consistent with the longer term ends, can move ahead irrespective of the ebb and flow of the larger political dynamics, and that such approaches can usefully combine the application of a restorative lens to a wide range of humanitarian, development, and commercial actions.

QUNO New York is excited to share our most recent Newsletter, "In & Around the UN," featuring the following articles by our staff:

• What's Next in Peacebuilding?
• Letter from the New York Director
• Pastor Elie's Visit to New York
• Putting Prevention Back on the UN's Agenda
• ​Updates from the Geneva Office
• Closer Cooperation between the UN and Regional and Sub-regional Organizations
• QUNO-AFSC Bring the Perspectives of Chinese Scholars to the UN
• Celebrating the Work of Quakers at the UN

In May, QUNO New York Director Andrew Tomlinson spoke during a UNITAR Seminar for mid-level UN Diplomats, on the subject of "The Nexus of Reconciliation and Peacebuilding." The Seminar which aimed to familiarize the participants with the principles of reconciliation as a process for peacebuilding, was well attended by representatives from many member state missions. 

The presentation during the session stressed that "Reconciliation can be usefully viewed as the process of transforming relationships in divided societies. 
It is a multi-generational process, applicable at any level of development, whether societies are marked by violent conflict or not." 

Statement on the political crisis in Burundi by ten Quaker organisations including QUNO New York.