Dear Reader,

If you are 25 or younger then UNA Coventry invite you to submit a short essay with the title "The Role of Young People in Building Peace". You could win a small cash prize and a certificate. Details below.

In addition to that, UNA Coventry are busy preparing other exciting activities for you to take part in during Coventry Peace Festival in November.

And remember we are still running UN75 sessions at 2-4pm UK time on the first Wednesday of every month during 2020. Join in a global conversation about what kind of world you want and what the UN should be doing to make it a reality simply by visiting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/71964075097

Read all these stories and more by following the links below.

Please stay safe and be considerate of others.

Philip Brown

Secretary, UNA Coventry Branch
philip@unacov.uk

Recent News Highlights

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Young People’s Peace Essay Competition 2020

In November 2020 the United Nations Association Coventry Branch will run the world’s first Young People’s Peace Essay Competition the winners of which will be announced during Coventry Peace Festival. They invite young people aged up to 25 to submit their essays of up to 500 words on the subject: The Role of Young People in Building Peace The prizes …

Peace Word Searches

Word searches are a great literacy exercise for children and are used both in homes and schools. On this page, the United Nations Association will publish word searches that encourage younger children to think about the word "peace" and ideas associated with this word. They are due to be published on 1 November 2020 as part of Coventry Peace Festival.

Free Website Training School

Coventry Lord Mayor’s Committee for Peace and Reconciliation are working with the United Nations Association Coventry Branch to create a free school which will train volunteers in how to create and manage websites, email, video and a number of other key skills that are in wide use around the world. The aim is to train volunteers who will want to …

Forthcoming Events

If you have an idea for an event you want us to organise, please contact events@unacov.uk

UN75 TeleConversation October 2020

Participate in UN75, the biggest-ever global conversation on the role of global cooperation in building the future we want. These teleconversations will be held on the first Wednesday of every month during 2020. Why #UN75? Tackling issues such as COVID-19, the climate crisis, inequality, new patterns of violence and the major changes we are seeing in population and technology in …

United Nations Day Teleconversation

UN Day is 24 October 2020, the 75th anniversary of the day the UN Charter entered into force in 1945. To mark its 75th year, the UN is running UN75 to gather people's opinions about how the UN should develop in the future. Why #UN75? Tackling issues such as COVID-19, the climate crisis, inequality, new patterns of violence and the …

Coventry Young People’s Peace Essay Competition - Deadline for Submissions

31 October is the deadline for young people to submit their essays of up to 500 words from young people aged up to 25 on the subject The Role of Young People in Building Peace The prizes for the 3 winners aged 17-25 will be: £50, £25 and £10 plus a winner’s certificate. The prizes for the 3 winners aged …

Coventry Peace Festival 2020

In 2020 the annual Coventry Peace Festival will be held from 1 to 15 November. This year will be the 80th anniversary of the Coventry Blitz, on 14-15 November, which is the event the Peace Festival was set up to remember. The programme has still not been announced but we expect it to be published on Coventry City Council's website.

Launch of Peace Word Search Puzzles

On 1 November, United Nations Association Coventry Branch will launch its brand-new series of word search games for young people (and others) on the theme of peace and reconciliation. Both online and printable versions will be published at unacov.uk/peace-word-searches. Word searches are a great literacy exercise for children and are used both in homes and schools. Schools who have registered …

Geneva Peace Week 2020

Geneva Peace Week 2020 will be held from 2 to 6 November in Maison de la paix, Chemin Eugene-Rigot 2, 1202 Genève, Switzerland and online. In 2020 the theme of GPW is Rebuilding trust after disruption: Pathways to reset international cooperation. For more information visit https://www.genevapeaceweek.ch/gpw20 Geneva Peace Week (GPW) is a leading annual forum in the international peacebuilding calendar in which …

Peace and the UN - a Presentation for Secondary Schools

On 3 November the United Nations Association Coventry Branch will run an online presentation aimed at secondary school students describing how the United Nations acts to prevent wars between nations and to end them once they have started. It will discuss how and why the UN was formed, what successes and failures it has had in preventing and ending wars …

Coventry Peace and Climate Change Lecture 2020 by Sir David King

12 November will present a rare opportunity to hear the UK's ex Chief Scientific Adviser and Special Representative for Climate Change share his insight and wisdom. Some people claim that Covid19 is the world’s biggest threat since the end of World War II. It has galvanised governments into action because it is an immediate and obvious danger. But, within a …

2020 Young People’s Peace Essay Competition - Award Ceremony

At an online event on 15 November, United Nations Association Coventry Branch will announce the winners of the 2020 Young People’s Peace Essay Competition and they will be invited to read their essays on the subject: The Role of Young People in Building Peace The prizes for the 3 winners aged 17-25 will be: £50, £25 and £10 plus a …

Anniversary of First UN General Assembly Meeting

The first meeting of the General Assembly was held in Westminster Central Hall, London, on 10 January 1946. The Security Council met for the first time a week later in Church House, Westminster. 10 January was also the date of the founding of the UN’s predecessor, the League of Nations, which was founded on 10 January 1920. The League of …

COP26

United Nations Climate Change and the UK and Italian Governments announced on 1 April that the 26th Conference of Parties due to be held in Glasgow in November (COP26) has been postponed due to COVID-19. It is now scheduled for 1-12 November 2021. Deferring the meeting should not mean deferring climate action, according to a leaked letter signed by Cop26 …

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