Resources
The Quaker United Nations Office conducts in-depth research and analysis on a range of topics relating to our core areas of focus and in conjunction with various partners. Search this archive or filter by topic to access our publications, including research papers, annual reports, significant statements of our positions, and more.
Booklet: Sustaining peace and human rights towards just, peaceful, and inclusive societies
QUNO Geneva's Peace & Disarmament program works to highlight and reinforce the inextricable link between human rights and peace and...
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Booklet: Arms control, human rights, and corporate responsibility towards just, peaceful, and inclusive societies
QUNO Geneva's Peace & Disarmament program works on highlighting the arms-related risks to human rights and tackling the challenges in...
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Integrating Human Rights and Sustaining Peace: Exploring Special Procedures
The report 'Integrating Human Rights and Sustaining Peace: Exploring Special Procedures' is based on a joint project undertaken by the...
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Geneva Reporter September 2022
QUNO's September 2022 issue of the Geneva Reporter newsletter is available below. This issue includes a welcome letter from our Director Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge...
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New Geneva Reporter is available
QUNO's December 2021 issue of the Geneva Reporter newsletter is available below. This issue includes reflections and updates from QUNO staff who...
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New Geneva Reporter is available
QUNO's December 2021 issue of the Geneva Reporter newsletter is available below. This issue includes reflections and updates from QUNO staff who attended...
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Sustaining Peace: How can human rights help?
Sustaining Peace: How can human rights help? 2016 – 2020 retrospective builds on learnings from a joint project with the...
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QUNO Participates in the Global Launch of the UN Community Engagement Guidelines
As a member of the Joint UN-Civil Society Working Group that developed the Guidelines, QUNO representative, Megan Schmidt, delivered this...
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United Nations Community Engagement Guidelines for Peacebuilding and Sustaining Peace
As the Secretary-General boldly states in his 2020 report on Peacebuilding and Sustaining Peace, “civil society engagement and participation is...
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Building Peace during the Pandemic โ A Conversation between QUNO and the UNPBSO
In recognition of the impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on global peace and security, the United Nations (UN) Peacebuilding Support...
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Working Paper: Exploring barriers to justice and sustainability in economic systems
This analysis is a work in progress that has been prepared as a working document by QUNO’s Sustainable and Just...
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Building Peace through Reconciliation
Every five years the UN undertakes a review of the Peacebuilding Architecture (PBA) to assess the system’s progress towards peacebuilding and sustaining peace...
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Geneva Reporter
QUNO's December 2019 issue of the Geneva Reporter newsletter is available below. This special issue highlights some of the ways the Quaker commitment...
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Geneva Reporter
QUNO's August 2019 issue of the Geneva Reporter newsletter is available below. This issue features: an update from our Human Rights & Refugees...
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In & Around the UN
Read QUNO New York's quarterly newsletter, In & Around the UN, featuring articles on: The newly established QUNO Alumni Network (QAN) Shared...
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Integrating Human Rights and Sustaining Peace
This report brings together the learning from a project undertaken from February 2017 to April 2018 to explore the Universal...
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Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and Sustaining Peace: An introduction
This joint publication by the Quaker United Nations Office, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung and Lancaster University demonstrates how economic, social and cultural rights...
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Building Sustainable Peace: How inclusivity, partnerships and a reinforced UN Peacebuilding Architecture will support delivery
Following extensive interview and desk based research, QUNO and the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC) released their report,...
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