Video
Sustaining peace through employment and decent work
On the International Day of Peace 2022, the ILO reaffirms its commitment to peace and launches an animated video on “Sustaining Peace through employment and decent work”.
The ILO was founded by a peace treaty in 1919 with the mandate that there can only be universal and lasting peace if it is based upon social justice. In this new video, we look at the pathways through which decent work and employment can address key conflict drivers in the framework of the Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus, allowing communities to move from fragility to resilience, from conflict to sustaining peace.
The animated video covers the following questions:
The ILO was founded by a peace treaty in 1919 with the mandate that there can only be universal and lasting peace if it is based upon social justice. In this new video, we look at the pathways through which decent work and employment can address key conflict drivers in the framework of the Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus, allowing communities to move from fragility to resilience, from conflict to sustaining peace.
The animated video covers the following questions:
- Introduction: The ILO mandate on sustaining peace through employment and decent work
- The vicious cycle and virtuous circle of crisis and sustaining peace in the world of work
- How should the ILO engage in fragile settings?
- What is the role of the ILO in the Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus?
- What does is it mean to contribute to the P of the Nexus?
- How can we distinguish a conflict-insensitive intervention from one that is actively contributing to peace?
- How can decent work explicitly contribute to peace?
- Conclusion: The ILO mandate on sustaining peace