Date/Time
Date(s) - Thursday - Jun 26, 2025 - Friday - Jun 27, 2025
All Day
Categories
Neutrality Colloquium: A Call to Action for Active Neutrality & World Peace (JUNE 26 & 27, 2025)
The Neutrality Colloquium will take place in Geneva, Switzerland on June 26-27, 2025. This forum seeks to promote active neutrality as a key strategy for global stability and sustainable development in response to increasing geopolitical tensions, militarization, and humanitarian crises.
A concrete Action Agenda will be developed to promote neutrality in the short, medium, and long term, with recommendations for governments and organizations. The event will bring together academics, activists, and government officials to collaboratively build strategies for peace.
This Neutrality Colloquium serves as a crucial step towards advancing peace, justice, and sustainability, setting the stage for the Second International Neutrality Congress in 2026.
Register here
The objectives of the Neutrality Colloquium include:
- Advocating for active neutrality within the international system.
- Analyzing the impacts of militarization on peace, economy, and the environment.
- Examining the media’s role in shaping war narratives and public opinion.
- Promote dialogue between state and non-state actors for the construction of non-intervention policies and sustainable peace. Designing political and diplomatic proposals for strengthening neutrality and non-alignment.
Impacts:
- Political: Increase the visibility of active neutrality, influence global political agendas, and promote dialogue for non-intervention policies.
- Social: Raise awareness about militarization, strengthen peace movements, and highlight the Global South’s struggles for sovereignty.
- Academic: Generate critical knowledge, foster interdisciplinary research, and influence evidence-based policies.
- Environmental: Advocate for eco-friendly alternatives to mitigate the environmental damage caused by conflicts.
The forum will produce several outputs, including:
1) A Public Declaration promoting neutrality for peace and Position Paper with concrete proposals to organizations such as the UN and the European Union.
2) Academic Publications and the creation of an International Neutrality Actors’ Network to coordinate future peace actions.
Register here
Schedule
Thursday, June 26: 9:30 to 19:00 at Route de Marsillon 40 1256 Troinex
09.30 – Arrival at the farm, registration and forming focus groups according to the colloquium themes.
10.00 – Welcoming words from the organizers and special guests.
Presentation of the global situation and specific countries in the area of neutrality.
12.00-13.30 – Lunch
13.30 – 17.30 – Focus group discussions in areas corresponding to the objectives of the colloquium. Topics for discussion include:
- Current Neutrality Practices
- Digital Neutrality in the Age of Cyberwarfare and AI Militarization
- Neutrality and Media
- Neutrality and Common Security in a Militarized World
- Building a New Non-Aligned Movement
17.30-19.00 – Dinner
Friday, June 27: 9:30 to 19:00 at Route de Marsillon 40 1256 Troinex
09.30 – Arrival at the farm
10.00-13.00 – Preparing presentations of the main ideas and conclusions of each focus group
13.00 -14.00 – Press-conference at the Swiss Press Club
13.00-14.00 – Lunch
14.00-17.30 – Resume discussion conclusions by each focus-group representative
Creation of the Action Plan for the International Congress for Neutrality 2026.
17.30-19.00 – Dinner
Organizing Institutions: Global Veterans Peace Network (GVPN), World BEYOND War, Inter-University Network for Peace (REDIPAZ), International Peace Bureau, Transnational Institute, Colombia Peace Agreement, Geneva Center for Neutrality.