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Sustainable Development, Peaceful, Just and Equitable Societies

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This chapter examines the United Nations’ Agenda 2030 with emphasis on Sustainable Development Goal 16. The Agenda has introduced a new a new philosophy of prevention grounded in the pursuit of development, peace, justice, inclusive and strong institutions in all countries. Civil Society Organisations (“We the Peoples”) have been energized by SDG 16’s in giving inspirational and operational content to the concepts of peace, justice, and equitable institutions. It remains to be seen if Governments will act accordingly in the future.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    UN, The Sustainable Development Goals Report, 2019. New York, 32.

  2. 2.

    See OHCHR, Early warning and economic, social and cultural rights. Geneva (2017), p. 22.

  3. 3.

    Ibid., p. xvii.

  4. 4.

    Ibid.

  5. 5.

    Ibid., p. xviii.

  6. 6.

    Ibid.

  7. 7.

    Ibid, pp. Xvii–xix.

  8. 8.

    Ibid., p. xix.

  9. 9.

    Ibid., p. xxi.

  10. 10.

    Ibid.

  11. 11.

    See Joint UNDP-DPA Programme on Building National Capacities for Conflict Prevention – Annual Report 2017, 23 May, 2018, 11–12.

  12. 12.

    Ibid, 5.

  13. 13.

    See UNDP, Peace and Development Advisors . https://peaceinfrastructures.org/SitePages/Thematic.aspx?ld/Thematic=5.

  14. 14.

    See UNDP (2016).

  15. 15.

    UNDP Guidance Note, Strengthening Insider Mediation: Strengthening Resilience to Conflict and Turbulence. 2014.

  16. 16.

    See UNDP, Issue Brief: Rule of Law, Justice, Security and Human Rights & The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, April, 2018.

  17. 17.

    See UNDP, Issue Brief: Rule of Law, Justice, Security and Human Rights & The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, April, 2018, 5. The briefing paper details UNDP post-conflict activities in Somalia, Tunisia , Central African Republic, Liberia, Guatemala , Democratic Republic of Congo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Rwanda.

  18. 18.

    See https://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/crisis-response/how-we-do-it.html.

  19. 19.

    See UNDP, Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery – UNDP (BCPR-UNDP) PreventionWeb net.

  20. 20.

    Rangita de Silva de Alwis (2018). See also, Ahrens et al. (2019).

  21. 21.

    FFP (2018). Fund for Peace 2018 Fragile States Index. Table: State Fragility in 2018.

  22. 22.

    Sen (2011).

  23. 23.

    See Shapiro (2003, 1999).

  24. 24.

    New York University Centre on International Cooperation (2018), “Challenge Paper: Justice as Prevention. Background paper for the Task Force on Justice”, 14 December.

  25. 25.

    On 11 March, 2019, France and Peru co-hosted an Arria Formula meeting of the Security Council on “Human Rights, accountability and justice: contributions to international peace and security.”, with contributions, among others, from UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michele Bachelet. See, Security Council Report, 8 March, 2019, “Arria Formula meeting on “Human rights, accountability and justice: contributions to international peace and security.”

  26. 26.

    Dennis (1998), pp. 132–134.

  27. 27.

    United Nations (2016), p. 42.

  28. 28.

    Ibid, pp. 42–43.

  29. 29.

    United Nations (2017), pp. 50–51.

  30. 30.

    Ibid., p. 50.

  31. 31.

    United Nations (2019a).

  32. 32.

    Mc Evoy and Hideg (2017).

  33. 33.

    Hideg and Alvazi del Frate (2018).

  34. 34.

    Pathfinders (2019).

  35. 35.

    Guterres (2018).

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Ramcharan, B., Ramcharan, R. (2020). Sustainable Development, Peaceful, Just and Equitable Societies. In: Conflict Prevention in the UN´s Agenda 2030. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36510-3_2

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