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UN PhotoTowards advancing the Pact of the Future: security and justice provision as a means to reducing all forms of violence (SDG 16.1) (HLPF 2024 Side Event)
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To prevent and address many of the grievances that drive violence and conflict, justice systems must ensure accessibility, accountability and equality before the law, while placing checks on the use of power by security actors and other branches of government. Good governance, including in justice and security sectors, is thus vital for preventing violence, promoting peace, and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
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Within this context, the (draft) Pact for the Future (PftF) and the New Agenda for Peace (NA4P) present a vision for how the international community can more effectively prevent violent conflict and sustain peace. The New Agenda for Peace is the main peace and security input from the Secretary-General for Member States consideration ahead of the Summit of the Future in September 2024, during which the PftF will be formally adopted as a blueprint for strengthening implementation of existing international commitments and taking concrete steps to be better prepared to respond to emerging challenges and opportunities.
With the above in mind, this side event will bring together representatives of Member States, international organisations and civil society to examine how and through which ways equitable justice and security provision can support progress towards reducing all forms of violence, advancing the Pact for the Future, and enabling the achievement of other SDGs. In doing so, it aims to foster reflection on lessons from security sector reform and justice reform hich are of relevance to the broader discussions of Member States in the run up to the Summit of the Future and the adoption of the Pact for the Future.