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'For Our Future': Global NGO launches landmark report advancing UN Pact for the Future
The launch event brings together representatives from Member States, international organisations, and civil society, creating a dynamic multi-stakeholder platform for dialogue on progressing conflict resolution, sustainable peace, inclusive development, and minority rights protections, underscoring broad international support for the report's findings.
Founded in 2016 by James Holmes , with a mission to promote evidence-based, community-centred reconciliation and peacebuilding, ICO has sustained engagement with the UN for many years, holding .
The UN Pact for the Future marked a historic milestone, uniting Member States around an ambitious set of shared commitments – from advancing sustainable development and strengthening international peace and security, to transforming global governance so that it better serves historically marginalised communities.
While its adoption marks an important moment of global consensus, the real challenge now is translating the Pact's guiding principles into meaningful action.
Through its 'Best Practices' blueprint, the report distils ICO's nearly a decade of accumulated expertise into a structured, adaptable methodology designed to equip policymakers around the world with the tools they need to implement the Pact's goals effectively.
Drawing on its direct, on-the-ground engagement across regions such as the , , and , ICO has developed a distinctive, holistic approach to securing sustainable peace and minority rights that integrates high-level diplomacy with grassroots empowerment, ensuring that the voices of marginalised groups – including women, youth, ethnic and linguistic minority communities – remain central to both conflict resolution and long-term peacebuilding.
The organisation's work is guided and supported by its distinguished Ambassadors, including , former President of the 76 United Nations General Assembly, and , former President of the UN Economic and Social Council, both of whom bring unparalleled experience in multilateral diplomacy and international development.
Their work with ICO underscores the organisation's commitment to bridging global aspirations with practical, context-specific, and localised action, helping Member States and communities translate the Pact's ambitions into tangible, locally grounded progress.
The report offers actionable frameworks that empower governments, civil society, and local actors to confront the social, political, and economic drivers of conflict with confidence. It demonstrates how inclusive, adaptable, and evidence-based strategies can translate the aspirations of the UN Pact into practical measures while having regard for, and reflecting, the intricacies of diverse local contexts.
The report features a series of compelling case studies that highlight its innovative approach.
ICO has been active in facilitating behind the scenes dialogue in the region between parties who have held high office in an attempt to support the international community's efforts to find a lasting peaceful resolution and revitalise multilateral cooperation towards that goal.
Across extensive ICO engagement programmes illustrate how marginalised groups can actively participate in, influence, and improve governance through fora for non-majority representation and engagement with government institutions, while in , ICO-facilitated projects have strengthened cross-community dialogue and inter-ethnic exchanges in historically divided settings.
In , community-led initiatives demonstrate the power of inclusive economic development in delivering capacity reinforcement and capacity building in conflict-affected areas, supporting more inclusive, effective, and transparent governance. This widened participation through new and innovative programmes such as the creation of 'Gender Coordination Committees', within local councils, which brought previously marginalised and disenfranchised women and girls into formal decision-making spaces.
These cases reflect ICO's distinctive model: a careful balance of high-level diplomacy and grassroots inclusion, linking peacebuilding with economic revitalisation, and empowering local communities to address the root causes of conflict through sustained reconciliatory dialogue that had previously remained out of reach for many communities.
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Further information regarding ICO Case Studies can be found on:
International Communities Organisation (ICO) is a London -based international organisation with (United Nations Economic and Social Council) .
Through the belief that communities can come together and achieve peace, based not on one group's views prevailing over another, but by constructing a shared vision for a better future.
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