STOCKHOLM - The ninth annual SIPRIS’s Stockholm Forum on Peace and Development will convene in a hybrid format on 23–25 May 2022.

This year’s Forum will explore solutions and ways to address human security challenges in the light of environmental degradation and climate change.

Recent floods, forest fires and droughts—and their association with human induced global warming—suggest that human security can no longer be guaranteed by tweaking the margins of existing solutions.

Environmental degradation and climate change are affecting human security in diverse ways. Sudden extreme weather events may generate or amplify local grievances and, additionally, the massive changes needed to protect the biosphere require a global transition to a sustainable and just world economy with green policies, institutions and processes by public and private actors.

Save the date for the 2022 Stockholm Forum to explore solutions and ways to address these challenges. From grassroot and corporate action to global policy decisions, diverse stakeholders and participants will explore policy approaches to address the intersection between environmental stress, human security and socio-intercultural interactions.

The Forum will address how to enable an environment of peace: what needs to change within the economy, institutions, governments, organizations, companies and societies to sustain the natural environment, biodiversity, human progress and peace according to the goals set out in Agenda 2030?

For each of the days of the 2022 Stockholm Forum, the format will combine open high-level policy debates with invitation-only sessions, roundtables, workshops, debates, fireside chats and spotlight presentations. The Forum, co-hosted with the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, will work with partners to foster open exchange with the wider peacebuilding community through in-person and online sessions, sharing lessons learned on ways towards an environment of peace.