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

QUNO New York newsletter from June 2011.

Features articles on:

• Building Peace: From China to Africa and Back Again
• Letter from the Director
• Peacebuilding at the UN
• Finding Hope for a Troubled World
• Preventing Election Violence in Kenya
• How to Support QUNO New York
• QUNO Staff Update
• The Changing Face of Violence

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.