President Akufo-Addo and the Chair of the Board of Trustees of the African Centre for Constructive Resolution to Disputes (ACCORD) & Global Peace, Mrs. Graça Machel, will jointly host the inaugural Global Peace Inter-Generational Dialogue in Accra.

The Dialogue, which is scheduled for May 6, at the Kempinski Hotel in Accra, will set the tone for a global discussion amongst Young Future Leaders, City Mayors, Captains of Business and Civil Society Leaders to deliberate on their aspirations for what a better world should look like.

About 500 delegates drawn from different sectors of the country are expected to attend the event including members of the Diplomatic Corp.

The Accra Inter-Generational Dialogue is a follow-up to the announcement made by Nana Akufo-Addo, as the Co-Chair of the UN SDG Advocates Group, on December 2, 2018, at the Global Citizen’s Festival in Johannesburg, South Africa, that in 2019, Ghana would host the inaugural Inter-Generational Dialogue in Accra City, to help forge the connection between peace and development in the country and worldwide. 

Background

Global Peace was launched on July 27, 2018, by the Chair of ACCORD’s Board of Trustees, Mrs. Graça Machel at a luncheon hosted by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa for 20 Heads of State attending the 2018 BRICS Plus Summit.

Mrs. Graça Machel subsequently introduced Global Peace, on September 24, 2018, to the world community at the United Nations (UN) Headquarters during the Nelson Mandela Peace Summit.

The initiative was then launched by Dr. Vasu Gounden, Founder and Executive Director of ACCORD, in October 2018 at the African Union, in Addis Ababa.

Global Peace is an initiative led from the Global South and Africa and is at the forefront of building a new discourse and narrative on global issues.  

Inter-Generational Dialogues

Throughout 2019, Global Peace will convene a series of Inter-Generational Dialogues that will be held in a minimum of 100 cities across the world.

Facilitated through the Global Peace Secretariat, based at the ACCORD Headquarters in Durban, South Africa, local volunteers and community interlocutors will organise a 2-hour interactive session, where young future leaders will dialogue with current leaders on their aspirations for what a better world should look like.

The dialogue will be guided by a set of questions that will involve local and global issues and be based largely on advancing the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). 

The future of global peace

The aspirations and outputs from the dialogues, held globally, will be collated into a Global Peace Charter which aims to be adopted at the Global Peace Dialogue in November 2019 in Durban, South Africa and presented to the UNSG.

The UNSG will be requested to host the first Global Peace Forum in New York in 2020 on the 75th Anniversary of the founding of the United Nations.