The following is a resolution that was authored by me (Delegate of China) and it deals with the role of civil society in conflict prevention and the pacific settlement of disputes. I won BD at the MUN (IRMUN)!

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S/RES/2134 (2023) 18-06872
Committee: United Nations Security Council (UNSC)
Agenda: The role of civil society in conflict prevention and the pacific settlement of disputes
Author: China
Signatories: Qatar, Russia, Ecuador, Switzerland, Pakistan, Israel, UAE, USA, Egypt,
India, Ghana, Albania, South Africa, Germany, UK, Japan
The Security Council,
Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations in its attempt to
prevent conflicts and settle disputes peacefully,
Solemnly Reaffirming its Resolutions 1325 (2000), 1366 (2001), 1625 (2005) and Recollecting
Resolution 2282 (2016),
Deeply concerned by the high human cost and suffering caused by armed conflicts, and
recognizing the significant number of simultaneous security and humanitarian crises that the
world currently faces, and the strain that this places on the resources of the United Nations’
system,
Recognizing that conflict resolution, peace and security, human rights and the active
participation of the civil society are interlinked and mutually reinforcing,
Reaffirming the important role of the civil society in peacebuilding and noting the
substantial link between the civil society’s full and meaningful involvement in efforts to
prevent, resolve and rebuild from conflict and those efforts’ effectiveness and long term
sustainability, and stressing, in this regard, the importance of the civil society’s equal
participation in all efforts for the maintenance and promotion of peace and security and the
need to increase the civil society’s role in decision-making with regard to conflict prevention,
resolution and peacebuilding,
Reaffirming the important role, the youth and women can play in the prevention and
resolution of conflicts and as a key aspect of the sustainability, inclusiveness and success of
peacekeeping and peacebuilding efforts,
Recognizing that the scale and nature of the challenge of sustaining peace calls for close
strategic and operational partnerships between the United Nations, national governments
and other key stakeholders, including but not limited to international, regional and sub-
regional organizations, international financial institutions, civil society organizations/non-
governmental organizations, women’s groups, youth organizations, and the private sector,
taking into account national priorities and policies,

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1. Declares the creation of a ‘Call for Proposals’ program in recognized conflict-affected
areas, to support CSOs/NGOs working to enhance the meaningful participation and
decision-making of the society in general, and the youth and women in particular, in
conflict prevention processes by gaining awareness of their concerns and proposed
strategies for conflict prevention. The ‘Call for Proposals’ program should seek to select
NGOs/CSOs that are eligible for sponsorship by the UNSC through the following 2
rounds:
(a) Submission and assessment of a concept note:
Committees constituted by the UNSC at the global and sub-regional levels,
using common criteria for review, assess the proposal’s quality and potential
for results. Successful applicants are invited to develop full proposals;
(b) Appraisal of full proposals
A list of proposals is selected and the grants are then disbursed accordingly;
and to disburse the grants to the qualifying local organizations in the affected areas
through the following 2 funding streams:
(a) Programmatic funding from 30,000 USD to 200,000 USD:
To finance programmatic activities of CSOs/NGOs aimed at enhancing the
meaningful participation and decision-making of the civil society in conflict
prevention processes in the impacted area;
(b) Institutional funding from 5,000 USD to 30,000 USD:
To reinforce the institutional capacity of local CSOs working on the
implementation of the Children, Women, Peace, and Security Agenda in the
impacted areas to ensure that they are able to sustain themselves and to
improve their contributions there;
2. Underscores the importance of women’s leadership and participation in conflict
prevention, resolution and peacebuilding, and recognizes the continuing need to
increase representation of women at all decision-making levels in national, regional and
international institutions and mechanisms for the prevention and resolution of conflict,
and the consideration of gender-related issues in all discussions pertinent to sustaining
peace;
3. Endorses* the creation of an advisory committee comprising a fixed number of female
representatives from various conflict-affected regions in the immediate future, to share
experiences and to develop a common platform for proposing peaceful conflict
prevention/resolution measures, for formulating mechanisms to end impunity for crimes
committed against women in war and for optimizing resources to support women’s
peacebuilding work;
*(With reference to operational clause 2)

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4. Endorses the publicising of Security Council Resolutions 1325 (2000) and 1366 (2001),
which advocate for the inclusion of civil society in conflict prevention efforts, to the end
of increasing public awareness pertaining to the cause;
5. Emphasizes the urgent need for the mitigation of competition for donor funding among
NGOs/CSOs as it severely undermines cooperation among them, subsequently leading to
the unnecessary duplication of efforts and initiatives;
6. Affirms the need for ‘UN Special Representative Committees’ to be constituted at the
earliest and dispatched to conflict affected areas to execute duties essential to achieving
the ultimate goal of conflict prevention and the pacific settlement of disputes, including
but not limited to the following:
(a) Conducting regular meetings with political parties, trade union leaders,
religious heads, media personalities, journalists and other key actors in the
conflict affected area, that can serve as a moderating force and mobilising
their resources and expertise to promote non-violence;
(b) Convening national youth meetings, undertaking projects to motivate the
youth to form new conflict prevention-oriented NGOs and encouraging
established NGOs/CSOs that have initiated educational projects;
7. Emphasizes the urgent need for the deployment of handpicked ‘UN Capacity Building
Teams’ to as many conflict affected areas as possible to resolve the surmounting issue of
a dearth of personnel skilled in conflict prevention in CSOs/NGOs by spreading
awareness about international human rights and conflict resolution/prevention
instruments by organizing problem-solving workshops, conflict resolution trainings, etc.
so that they do not end up unintentionally worsening tensions by intervening in conflict
situations without the requisite skills;
8. Declares the creation of ‘UN Media Monitoring & Support Cells’ for conflict affected
areas to achieve the following objectives pertaining to the prevention of incitement and
the prevention of the spreading or justification of hate, violence and armed conflict
through media outlets:
(a) To hold media organisations operating in conflict-affected areas
accountable for their reporting, to ensure that the media does not incite
civil/political violence, does not exaggerate conflicts and also includes
coverage of peace initiatives as well;
(b) To provide adequate financial aid to independent NGOs/CSOs, that work
towards developing media-based programmes in conflict affected areas to
achieve the noble objective of promoting tolerance and peace along with
coverage, by featuring the best media-based programs on UN News/Radio;

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9. Recognizes the urgent need to commission surveys in conflict-affected communities to
identify demands for nonviolence;
10. Stresses that constructive collaboration between international civil networks including
but not limited to ‘The International Crisis Group (ICG)’ and ‘The Global Partnership for
the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC)’ and the United Nations Security Council must
be promoted for achieving the following objectives:
(a) Facilitating extensive fact-finding missions in conflict affected regions;
(b) Clarifying and strengthening relations between the civil society in conflict
affected areas and the UN and its agencies;
(c) Building better relations with the governments of conflict affected areas
and jointly setting regional agendas pertaining to the prevention and pacific
settlement of conflicts;
11. Authorizes the creation of ‘voluntary civilian peacekeeping forces’ that will invite willing
civilians in conflict-affected areas to apply to assist the ‘UN Peacekeepers/Blue Helmets’
in establishing and maintaining the minimum level of security that enables people to feel
safe enough to move around, organize and take effective action to defend human rights
and promote peace and in enabling other peace-making and peace-building activities to
take place by performing functions including but not limited to the following:
(a) Monitoring, protective accompaniment and inter-positioning - i.e.,
physically positioning themselves between opposing forces to prevent
violent attack;
(b) Being present during and constructively contributing to
negotiations/diplomatic talks between UN Peace-keeping Forces and the
armed factions/belligerents engaged in conflict to the end of reaching
comprehensive agreements on new state structures and other key issues at
the heart of conflict;
12. Encourages constructive collaboration with the governments, NGOs and CSOs of war-
torn nations to the end of jointly developing common regional textbooks and
educational materials for students, comprising factually-based accounts of disputed
histories and contentious issues so as to provide balanced information and analysis for
preventing the youth from getting politically motivated due to influenced narratives;
13. Encourages the initiatives of CSOs and NGOs to transmit facts and memories to future
generations in order to prevent a repeat of past crimes including but not limited to
memorials, peace museums, and commemorative events;

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14. Encourages the creation of ‘UN Interfaith Dialogue Cells’ in conflict-affected areas to the
end of facilitating cooperative, constructive, and positive interaction/reconciliation
between individuals/entities representing different religious beliefs/faiths, with the aim
of promoting the prevention and peaceful resolution of conflicts that arise along
religious lines;
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