Second Paris Peace Forum, a success for multilateralism [fr]

Paris Peace Forum – the objectives

The Paris Peace Forum is part of the momentum launched by French President, Emmanuel Macron, to reaffirm the importance of multilateralism and collective action in facing current challenges.
The second Paris Peace Forum will feature the same elements that made the first forum a successful and unique event with the same:
objectives: encouraging international cooperation and collective action for a peaceful world;
approaches: presentations, discussions and progress on innovative, real-world solutions;
ambitions: enhancing, rethinking or creating new rules, standards and best practices.

Paris Peace Forum 2019: Announcing the list of governance solutions to be showcased

About a hundred of creative governance projects from around the world were showcased at the second edition of the Paris Peace Forum.

From 11 to 13 November at la Grande Halle de La Villette in Paris, these selected project leaders will be able to showcase their innovative work in areas of peace and security, development, environment, new technologies, inclusive economy, and culture & education. It will be an opportunity for them to develop, energize, and raise visibility to their project by reaching thousands of actors from across sectors and specialties.

Discover the complete 2019 Project List

Discover the best of the 2019 Paris Peace Forum that took place on November 11-13 in Paris

Further information on the Paris Peace Forum

www.ParisPeaceForum.org

A look back at 2018’s projects

For the first Paris Peace Forum, 860 applications from 116 countries and 20 international organizations were received. 121 projects were shortlisted to be presented and discussed during the event and, of those, 10 were selected to receive year-long support. These projects include:
  projects offering normative solutions to transnational problems, such as the Digital Democracy Charter by Luminate which encourages States to adopt a series of principles guaranteeing the quality of information on the Internet and processing of data in accordance with public liberties;
  projects offering new tools, such as the World Benchmarking Alliance by Index Initiative which aims to measure businesses’ impact on the Sustainable Development Goals;
  projects focused on governance of common spaces, like Antarctica 2020 led by a diverse group of high-level influencers aiming to protect over 7 million km2 of Southern Ocean by 2020;
  local projects with potential to be reproduced in other areas of the world, such as the Climate Resilient Zero-Budget Natural Farming project in India, implemented by the government of Andhra Pradesh and proposing an innovative, scalable model of regenerative agriculture.