As the international community embarks on the task of defining the post-2015 Development Goals, we are yet to see if armed conflict and sustainable peace will be included.
However, there is a growing recognition of the links between peace, security and development. Today our partner in Colombia, Rosa Emilia Salamanca, is speaking at an event organised by the President of the UN’s General Assembly. She will be speaking on the need to include gender, violence and peace in the post-2015 framework.
Conciliation Resources has participated in various efforts to define the framework. Read our latest overview of how violence and peace can truly be at the heart of the UN’s post-2015 development goals here.
The statement follows a joint Conciliation Resources / Saferworld paper, which outlines what a gender, violence and peace approach would look like in the post-2015 framework.
Rosa Emilia is part of a group of women in Colombia who have launched a new peacebuilding initiative, called the Ethical Pact for a Country in Peace.
The Pact calls on Colombian society, policymakers and the international community to support the ‘transformation’ of Colombian society to a peaceful one, by signing up to 15 actions.
The Ethical Pact for a Country in Peace’s approach acknowledges that peace is more than just the absence of violence and must include the underlying causes of conflict. This is an approach that we share, and one that we believe must be reflected in the post-2015 framework.