Stacy Weld-Blundell
@sweldblundell
Senior Policy Adviser @ UK Mission to the United Nations NY @UKUN_NewYork. Formerly @UN in MENA. Determined optimist. Views my own. RT/like โ endorsement ๐ฌ๐ง๐
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23-05-2011 20:03:53
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Conflicts are getting more complex. Peace Operations must adapt. Investing in prevention is essential. So is giving women a bigger role. Today at #UNSC we outlined our support for holistic peace & the role of United Nations Peacebuilding AWLNetwork in buildingย lastingย peace.
Happy to host Jordan Street and Abi Watson (@abiwatson.bsky.social) of Saferworld and GPPi at UK at the UN ๐ฌ๐ง๐บ๐ณ to discuss what works - and what does not - to address threats posed by violent groups using terror tactics
Thanks UK at the UN ๐ฌ๐ง๐บ๐ณ for long-term championing of peacebuilding. Amb Ambassador Barbara Woodward highlights that prevention not only saves lives, but saves $$$ in avoided humanitarian costs. The PBF supports the UN mission to respond to conflicts everywhere.
Congratulations to โฆSwitzerlandUNโฉ ๐จ๐ญ - the country of Jean-Jacques Rousseau - on taking on the Presidency of the #UNSC and a successful debate on the importance of trust in building peace gov.uk/government/speโฆ
This #PeaceBuildingDay, the UK is proud to #InvestInPeaceย to advance: ๐๏ธPeace. ๐งโ๐คโ๐งSecurity. โ๏ธStability. Through the United Nations Peacebuilding Fund. The UK has contributed ยฃ175m to the fund since 2006, delivering for those living in conflict including in Sudan, Mali & DRC.
Great work by @Mo_UNDP and UNDP Nigeria
The impact of United Nations programmes on the ground in Papua New Guinea ๐ต๐ฌ is real. UN system integration in peace and development is taking shape, says Stacy Weld-Blundell Stacy Weld-Blundell, Senior Policy Adviser UK at the UN ๐ฌ๐ง๐บ๐ณ, after visiting ๐ต๐ฌwith Peacebuilding Fund's donor partners.
"At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them." Today in the United Nations Peacekeeping Memorial Garden, Ambassador Barbara Woodward joined representatives from the Commonwealth and beyond to pay tribute to our fallen heroes. #ArmisticeDay
Incredibly important meeting in #Damascus today, as the ICC's chief prosecutor Karim A. A. Khan KC meets #HTS leader Ahmed al-Sharaa, #Syria FM Asaad Shaibani & others. #Syria deserves all the help it can get to achieve justice & accountability.
80 years ago, after WWII, nations signed the United Nations Charter. It is the foundation of international peace and security, human rights and development. Let us unite now, as we did then, and remember the hard-learned lessons of the past. Progress is not inevitable. It takes hard work.
Tackling poverty. Driving growth. Reforming the global financial system for a fairer, more stable world. These are our aims at United Nations Financing for Development 4, beginning today in Seville.
Today Permanent Mission of Pakistan to the UN takes up the Presidency of the United Nations Security Council for July. ๐ต๐ฐ We look forward to working with you and Asim Iftikhar Ahmad, PR of Pakistan to the UN in the month ahead. ๐