"Armed violence reduction within the post-2015 agenda" Regional Review Conference on the Geneva Declaration on Armed Violence and Development Geneva, Switzerland | 8-9 July 2014

1. Federal Department of Foreign Affairs FDFA
Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation SDC
Presentation GMH, 09.07.2014
Agenda on Global Sustainable
Development post-2015
&
Peace and armed violence reduction
Michael Gerber
Special Representative for Global Sustainable Development
Regional Review Conference on Geneva Declaration
Geneva, 9 July 2014

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Post-2015 Sustainable Development Agenda – Rationale
Nexus Peace – Development
 Conflict, violence and fragile situations = Cause
and consequence of development deficits
 Roots: lack of social justice, exclusion, poverty
 Most MDGs out of reach in fragile contexts
 Poverty significantly higher (21%) in contexts
of violence
 Slower progress – social inequality rises
 Challenges not limited to national contexts
 How to address these challenges with
new Sustainable Development Goals?

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Post-2015 Sustainable Development Agenda – SDGs
Claims and Requirements
 Address root causes
 Conflict reduction
 State capacities to withstand crises
 Human Rights
(particularly in fragile contexts)
 Personal safety
 Rule of Law
 Societies free from violence and fear thereof
 Goal on Peace and inclusive societies

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Post-2015 Sustainable Development Agenda – Stand-alone goal
Sustainable Peace and Inclusive Societies
1) improve personal safety
2) access to justice
3) address external stresses such as organized crime
 Freedom from all form of real or perceived violence, including gender-based
violence
 Ensure that formal justice mechanisms are accessible, affordable,
perceived as fair and provide remedy and reparation to victims
 Strengthen civil society organisations and national human rights institutions
 Ensure that tensions, grievances and disputes within society are being
resolved inclusively, including by appropriate reconciliation and transitional
justice mechanisms and local conflict resolution mechanisms
 Reduce and prevent all forms of organized crime and violence related to it,
including the illicit flow of goods (small arms, light weapons, drugs, natural
resources etc.) and human trafficking
 Indicators: objective and perception / measurable and universal

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Open Working Group on SDGs
 Goal 16: Achieve peaceful and inclusive societies, access
to justice for all, and effective and capable institutions
16.1 by 2030 reduce levels of violence and halve related death
rates everywhere
16.2 end abuse, exploitation, and violence against children everywhere
16.3 by 2030 reduce illicit financial flows by x% globally, increase stolen
asset recovery and return by y% globally, fight all forms of organized
crime, and reduce corruption and bribery in all its forms and at all levels
and ensure accountability and transparency
16.4-16.9: Governance / Rule of Law
16.a develop effective, accountable and transparent public institutions at all
levels including security and police forces
16.b strengthen national institutions and international cooperation to combat
crimes, including illicit flows and organized crime
Post-2015 Sustainable Development Agenda – OWG Zero Draft

6. Global Policy Making  Implementation
 Clarify value-laden concepts
(“fragility”, “security”, “stability”, “conflict”)
 Dialogue on content and substance of
potential SDG
 Address reservations re conditionality, national
sovereignity etc.
 Differentiation: universal vs. national?
 Define Means of Implementation
 Measurement / indicators  «data revolution»
 Capacity building at national level
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Post-2015 Sustainable Development Agenda – How to get there?

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