GPW 2025: 80 Years of the UN Multilateralism: Reinforcing a Timeless Framework for Global Peace

Taking place after the opening of the 80th session of the UN General Assembly and ahead of the UN’s 80th anniversary on 24 October 2025, this session aims to explore to what extent and how the UN remains indispensable and provides most effective pathway to address today’s complex global challenges.
As the international system faces unprecedented complexity – ranging from geopolitical power shifts and fragmentation to transnational threats such as climate change, pandemics, and digital disruption – the imperative for effective multilateralism is greater than ever. Echoing UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ assertion “the United Nations has never been more needed”, this session will examine the UN’s evolving role and effectiveness in sustaining and advancing multilateral cooperation and International Geneva’s capacity to drive it forward.

Speakers :

H.E. Ambassador Waweru
Ambassador, Deputy Permanent Representative of Kenya to UNOG in Geneva

Blandine Blukacz-Loisfert
Chief, Institutional Memory Section at UN Library & Archives Geneva

Thomas Guerber
Deputy State Secretary, Head of the UN Division, Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA).

Annika Hilding Norberg
Head of Peace Operations and Peacebuilding at the Geneva Center for Security Policy

Dr. Keith Krause
Director of the Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding at the Geneva Graduate Institute

Charlotte Lindberg Warakaulle
Director for International Relations at the European Organization for Nuclear Research

Tatiana Valovaya
Director-General of United Nations Office at Geneva

Agi Veres
Director of the UNDP Office in Geneva