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UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Wednesday urged world leaders to take concrete action and invest in peace, warning that violence, division, and conflict are deepening worldwide and that the dialogue needed to resolve them is absent.
Guterres spoke during the annual Japanese Peace Bell ceremony at UN Headquarters in New York, held ahead of the International Day of Peace on September 21. This year’s theme, “Invest in Peace: For Everyone, Everywhere, Every Day,” honors what the UN has called the “everyday architects of peace,” including volunteers, advocates, civil society leaders, and peacekeepers working at the community level.
In his remarks, Guterres said peace required active effort instead of passivity. He warned that conflicts across the globe were intensifying resulting in communities being torn apart by violence, and that the solidarity and dialogue required for viable solutions were largely absent. He noted that in places where governments were failing to secure peace, ordinary people were paving the way by raising their voices, bridging divides, and healing communities.
The Secretary-General urged leaders gathering at the United Nations in the coming weeks for the General Assembly high-level debate, which opens September 23, to follow that example by investing in health, education, nutrition, and social protection, and by building institutions people can trust. He called on governments to safeguard human rights and dignity, recommit to what he described as “the proven tools of peace,” including diplomacy, dialogue, negotiation, and peacekeeping, and to end wars and conflicts.
Guterres’s appeal comes against the backdrop of what the UN has documented as the highest number of active armed conflicts since the Second World War. His September 2025 report, “The Security We Need: Rebalancing Military Spending for a Sustainable and Peaceful Future”, found that global military expenditure reached a record $2.7 trillion in 2024, an increase of more than nine percent from the previous year and an amount equivalent to 13 times total global development aid. The report, mandated by UN member states under the 2024 Pact for the Future, concluded that redirecting even a fraction of military budgets could close critical gaps in education, healthcare, climate adaptation, and poverty reduction.
The ceremony also carried personal significance. Guterres, who leaves office at the end of 2026, told the audience it was the last time he would ring the Peace Bell but pledged he would remain committed to the cause of peace beyond his tenure. The Japanese Peace Bell was presented to the United Nations by the UN Association of Japan on June 8, 1954, cast from coins donated by delegates of 60 nations.
The UN General Assembly established the International Day of Peace in 1981. In 2001, the Assembly unanimously designated it as a period of non-violence and ceasefire. Despite the annual observance, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs estimates that more than 200 million people currently require humanitarian assistance and nearly 120 million have been forcibly displaced by war, crises, and persecution.
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Guterres spoke during the annual Japanese Peace Bell ceremony at UN Headquarters in New York, held ahead of the International Day of Peace on September 21. This year’s theme, “Invest in Peace: For Everyone, Everywhere, Every Day,” honors what the UN has called the “everyday architects of peace,” including volunteers, advocates, civil society leaders, and peacekeepers working at the community level.
In his remarks, Guterres said peace required active effort instead of passivity. He warned that conflicts across the globe were intensifying resulting in communities being torn apart by violence, and that the solidarity and dialogue required for viable solutions were largely absent. He noted that in places where governments were failing to secure peace, ordinary people were paving the way by raising their voices, bridging divides, and healing communities.
The Secretary-General urged leaders gathering at the United Nations in the coming weeks for the General Assembly high-level debate, which opens September 23, to follow that example by investing in health, education, nutrition, and social protection, and by building institutions people can trust. He called on governments to safeguard human rights and dignity, recommit to what he described as “the proven tools of peace,” including diplomacy, dialogue, negotiation, and peacekeeping, and to end wars and conflicts.
Guterres’s appeal comes against the backdrop of what the UN has documented as the highest number of active armed conflicts since the Second World War. His September 2025 report, “The Security We Need: Rebalancing Military Spending for a Sustainable and Peaceful Future”, found that global military expenditure reached a record $2.7 trillion in 2024, an increase of more than nine percent from the previous year and an amount equivalent to 13 times total global development aid. The report, mandated by UN member states under the 2024 Pact for the Future, concluded that redirecting even a fraction of military budgets could close critical gaps in education, healthcare, climate adaptation, and poverty reduction.
The ceremony also carried personal significance. Guterres, who leaves office at the end of 2026, told the audience it was the last time he would ring the Peace Bell but pledged he would remain committed to the cause of peace beyond his tenure. The Japanese Peace Bell was presented to the United Nations by the UN Association of Japan on June 8, 1954, cast from coins donated by delegates of 60 nations.
The UN General Assembly established the International Day of Peace in 1981. In 2001, the Assembly unanimously designated it as a period of non-violence and ceasefire. Despite the annual observance, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs estimates that more than 200 million people currently require humanitarian assistance and nearly 120 million have been forcibly displaced by war, crises, and persecution.
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