ABSTRACT
How do the UN’s sustaining peace resolutions relate to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and to what extent do they interact? An analysis of relevant data makes the potential connection between the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and sustaining peace clearer: approximately 1.8 billion people, including half of the world’s extremely poor, live in fragile and conflict-affected settings. 1 Without significant new action, the forecasts for 2030, the deadline that the international community of states has set for achieving the SDGs, indicate an increase to 2.3 billion and over 80 percent of the world’s poorest people. Migration is an additional factor that has a significant impact on sustainable development, with an estimated 272 million people on the move, 2 of which 70.8 million are forcibly displaced because of conflict or other crises. 3 These facts point to an urgent need for an approach that links sustaining peace with the 2030 Agenda and the UN’s work on supporting development. Hence, the crucial question is: to what extent are efforts to advance these agendas pursued in tandem?
