PARIS PEACE FORUM

About:

• The Paris Peace Forum is an international summit founded in 2018. It will be an annual event.
  
  
• Every year, it will be attended by representatives from Nations, international organizations civil society for the purpose of promoting peace.
  
  
• The initiative taken by the French government is to serve as a painful reminder of the two world wars and the current threats to peace and harmony in the current world.
  
  
• Key highlights:
  • The 2018 summit is being attended by 70 global leaders to look at the challenges to the multilateralism from growing protectionism.
    
    
  • In a veiled dig at Donald Trump's America-first policies and scepticism toward multilateralism, German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned that "lack of communication and unwillingness to compromise" can have deadly consequences.
    
    
  • UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres also warned of "parallels" between the present day and the unstable and dangerous 1930s.