Diane Hendrick from QUNO Geneva and Camilla Campisi from QUNO New York participated in a meeting in Uppsala, Sweden entitled ‘Towards a Comprehensive Strategy for Inclusivity: Strengthening the role of local perspectives in peacebuildling,’ co-organized by the Geneva Peacebuilding Platform and the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation.

QUNO was invited to brief the Security Council Working Group on Conflict Prevention and Resolution in Africa on the topic of the role of Governance and Institution-Building in Conflict Prevention.

The first-ever Human Rights Council Panel on Children of Parents Sentenced to the Death Penalty or Executed took place on 11 September 2013 in Geneva.

QUNO participated in an Informal Climate Change Equity Dialogue convened by the ACT Alliance, and facilitated a roundtable discussion on equity and trust building.

QUNO and the Civil Society Platform for Peacebuilding and Statebuilding hosted a High Level  Side Event on “Stability & Peace: Finding the Heart of Sustainable Development" at Scandinavia House in New York in the opening week of the 68th Session of the UN General Assembly, featuring civil society representatives from Kenya, Liberia and Nigeria, the Director General of the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, a leading Chinese academic, and Jan Naidoo from South Africa. Ninety diplomats, UN staff and civil society representatives attended. 

QUNO held - together with CARE International, Catholic Relief Service, CGIAR Challenge Programme on Water and Food; Howard G. Buffett Foundation; International Institute for Environment and Development and International Union for Conservation of Nature - a seminar on “Water Management and Peacebuilding: Connecting the Local to International Policy” at the Stockholm World Water Week in September. The seminar shared examples of policy and practice that bring water, land and food management together with peacebuilding and rights-based approaches.

Read QUNO Geneva's newsletter for the period July to October 2013. Features stories:

• Children of parents sentenced to death or executed
• New framework for trade and investment in agriculture
• Conscientious objection to military service
• New energy on nuclear disarmament
• Highlights from QUNO New York

QUNO attended the UNFCCC Joint Workshop on the Framework for Various Approaches, Non-Market-Based Approaches and the New Market Mechanism in Bonn, Germany.

Lindsey Cook, representing QUNO, highlighted that current global emission rates are at "top end of ... emissions scenarios", likely leading to increased temperatures of 4.2 to 5 centigrade by 2100. She encouraged negotiators to act on the "small window to keep rising global temperatures below 2.6 degrees Centigrade", and spoke of negotiators’ "extraordinarily privileged position to act positively".