The Dialogue, which is scheduled for 6th May, 2019 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 H.E. Nana Akufo-Addo, as the Co-Chair of the UN SDG Advocates Group, on 2nd December 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 world-wide.

BACKGROUND: Global Peace was launched on 27 July 2018, by the Chair of ACCORD’s Board of Trustees, Mrs. Graça Machel at a luncheon hosted by
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa for twenty Heads of State attending the 2018 BRICS Plus Summit. Mrs. Graça Machel subsequently introduced Global Peace, on 24 September 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 fore-front 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 a 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 organize 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 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.
Thank you.

SIGNED

Mr. Kobla Asamani
Convener and Special Advisor to the Secretary General
All - Africa Students Union

Mr. Peter Kodjie
Convener and Secretary General
All - Africa Students Union

Chief Nathaniel Ebo Nsarko
Convener and Executive Director
Millennium Promise Alliance

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