Activity reports are finalized every two years, summarizing the previous two-year workstreams. The 2022 Activity Report of the Geneva Peacebuilding Platform summarizes the Platform's activities and opens its 2022-2023 Programme. The report is structured along the three work streams of the programme, which are:
- Convening and incubation;
- Community management; and
- Geneva Peace Week.
The report also highlights key items, including major leadership transitions, substantive achievements, and new innovations.
Leadership Transitions
In early 2022, Dr. Annyssa Bellal became Executive Director of the Platform, concluding the 18-month long leadership transition period and strategic positioning exploration that began in December 2020. After three successful years steering the Geneva Peace Week through multiple transitions and a pandemic, Danson Gichini concluded his role as Geneva Peace Week Lead. He was replaced by Dany Diogo, incoming Project Lead for Geneva Peace Week. In order to assist the core team for the successful delivery of the 2022 edition of the Geneva Peace Week, two additional part-time roles were fulfilled by Maria Baltag, in charge of all Administrative and Financial aspects and Yasmeen Chaudhry in the capacity of Communications and Outreach Coordinator, starting from the later part of July 2022. Annika Erickson-Pearson, Community Management Lead, remained with the platform throughout the year.
Activities
GPW22: After two editions that were held almost fully online due to the global pandemic, considerable efforts were made to offer as many traditional in person events as possible. GPW22 consisted of 34 workshops (16 in-person and 18 online sessions), 9 High-Level panels, 21 Digital Series productions generating over 1900 streams and listens as of 11 January 2023, and involved 2,860 sessions attendance from over 119 countries.
Community management: After a year of successful pilot testing in 2020 and 2021, the Platform invested considerable energy into its most robust community of practice: Environment, climate, conflict, and peace (ECCP) and launched a White Paper on the Future of Environmental Peacebuilding.
Convenings: In addition to a variety of book talks and presentations, GPP also advanced networking between professionals and academics working on peace and security dynamics in China (Beijing-Geneva Digital Briefings on Sustaining Peace and Preventive Diplomacy), and it facilitated informal exchanges between peace forum organizers to nurture exchange and collaboration between them (Peace Forum Network).
Read the 2022 Report and browse the previous years' reports below:
Activity Reports
