2022•12•07

A new UNU-CPR discussion paper provides practical policy options that the G7 can adopt to strengthen its global conflict prevention and resolution role. Specifically, the paper focuses on how the group and its individual countries can achieve their peace and security goals via investment in the multilateral system.  

Publication follows a shift in the global strategic and security environment following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and recent G7 meetings on peace and security.

Conflict Prevention and Resolution in a Multipolar World: Priorities for the G7 was commissioned by the German Federal Foreign Office (GFFO).

The paper offers an analysis of today’s conflict trends; highlights the role of negotiated, non-military settlements to disputes; argues the business case for G7 engagement in multilateral conflict resolution; and maps the multilateral conflict resolution architecture and the UN Secretary-General’s call for a ‘New Agenda for Peace.’ Finally, it proposes a framework for G7 policymaking that will position the group to engage with multilateral conflict resolution.

The overarching message is that the G7 can more effectively reduce the risks of large-scale violent conflict through targeted investments in multilateral peacemaking and peacebuilding, including via the New Agenda for Peace process.

Read Conflict Prevention and Resolution in a Multipolar World: Priorities for the G7 here.