Engagements
and
Inspirational Projects
Solstice Forum on Peacebuilding and Peaceful Coexistence
2019 Solstice Peacebuilding and Peaceful Coexistence Forum,
including the Empowerment of Women*©
Yale Divinity School, Grace Initiative Global, Harvard Program on Refugee Trauma
Smokey House Farm, Merck Forest and Farmland, Equinox Resort (VT)
Sponsorship: Ben & Jerry’s Foundation.
Bringing about a world for restored relationships, for livelihood opportunities, for nourishment every day, and for preservation of our Earth
13 December from 1:00 PM to 14 December 4:00 PM
A scientific, economic, ecological, and political understanding is critical for formulating and implementing inclusive sustainable peace and for approaches fostering coexistence. Peaceful coexistence embraces conditions affecting lives and community such as climate change; nutrition and health, and, human security. At the same time, peacebuilding incorporates processes such as reconciliation as trust building. In this continuum from peacebuilding to peaceful coexistence, we envisage inter-dependent processes and conditions, which can strengthen resilience, including in rural areas. For example, increasingly agriculture and farming are employed as a tool for both trauma healing and reconciliation as well as essential for sustenance and food security, as well as gender empowerment. At the same time, climate change may impact food production and cause insecurity.
* This design, winter moon, is based on the art work of Sabra Fields, titled New Moon.
Agriculture, Farming and Food Security & Peaceful Communities
International IDEA, Yale Divinity, Grace Initiative Global
AGRICULTURE, FARMING AND FOOD SECURITY
& PEACEFUL SOCIETIES
Agriculture, Farming and Food Security
Peaceful and Inclusive Communities
UN Headquarters: Conference Room 8
3 October 2019 - 10:00 am to 1:00 pm
In the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development[1]the international community set out to transform our world by tackling multiple challenges through holistic and synergistic mechanisms to ensure well‐being, economic prosperity, and environmental protection. Agriculture and sustainable farming represents an integral component for the global community to realize the 2030 Agenda’s interrelated transformational goals.
In the Secretary-General’s report on Agriculture, Food Security and Nutrition noted that most of the world’s 570 million farms are small and family-run; with family farms cultivating about 75% of the world’s agricultural land.[2] Also, the UN Decade of Family Farming (2019–2028) calls for Governments to develop public policies and investments to support family farming from a holistic perspective, to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals and “To Leave No One Behind.”
