Building a more secure world • Director Robin Geiss
Geneva, Switzerland
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Tech-facilitated gender-based violence escalates from online to real-world harm, and excludes women from peacebuilding processes.
UNIDIR’s factsheet outlines actions for governments, civil society and industry to prevent these risks.
👉 Read more: unidir.org/TFGBVfactsheet
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Welcome to UNIDIR, Major Cyrille Kablan Nouoma! 🇺🇳🤝
Cyrille joins us as a Fellow in our Weapons of Mass Destruction Programme, bringing expertise in forensics, biological threat detection and biosecurity.
🔗 Learn more: unidir.org/Cyrille-Nouoma
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☕At yesterday’s Espresso for Equality session, the #INTGenderChampions welcomed Shimona Mohan (@Shimona_) and Hana Salama to present @UNIDIR's new factsheet on Technology-facilitated gender-based violence and its implications for International Peace and Security.
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🌊 Did you know that 99% of intercontinental data travels through subsea cables?
UNIDIR’s Researcher Wenting He reflects on why these cables matter and why countries should work to protect this critical undersea infrastructure.
🔗 unidir.org/maritime
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🌐 UNIDIR is at Trust Valley Days 2026!
Today, we are joining @TrustValleyCH and 900+ participants from the public and private sectors, academia and startups to explore digital trust, security and resilience in the agentic era.
Learn more about our work: unidir.org/SecTec
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UNIDIR Director Robin Geiss met with Namibian Ambassador Elvis Toolouta Shiweda to discuss our ongoing partnership, particularly with the International Women’s Peace Centre in Namibia.
We look forward to further advancing peace and security efforts together 🇺🇳🤝🇳🇦
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📡 What is the electromagnetic spectrum and why does it matter for peace, security and disarmament?
Ahead of UNIDIR’s Innovations Dialogue on 11 November, explore electromagnetic disruptions and what comes next for the disarmament community.
🔗 unidir.org/EMS-explainer
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📸 We asked our #OS26 Youth Video Competition winners, Ali and Joel, to bring us with them to UNIDIR’s Outer Space Security Conference. Here’s what they captured across the two days!
📖 Read about their experience: unidir.org/OS26-winners
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This week, the High Representative for Disarmament Affairs @INakamitsu delivered remarks to the 2026 Disarmament Orientation Course - an annual programme held with @UNIDIR to introduce newly arrived diplomats in Geneva to #disarmament topics.
Video link: video.un-arm.org/hr-video-me…
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That’s a wrap on week 1️⃣ of UNIDIR and @ODA_Geneva's Disarmament Orientation Course!
Delegates explored the multilateral disarmament machinery, the Conference on Disarmament and conventional weapons, including humanitarian disarmament and arms control instruments 🇺🇳
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🇯🇵 UNIDIR was pleased to welcome a delegation from the Hiroshima Platform for Peace Studies and Education.
Discussions focused on AI, cybersecurity, nuclear disarmament, outer space and opportunities for possible collaboration on peace and disarmament 🤝🇺🇳
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🌐 What can cyberspace teach us about developing norms for AI in the military domain?
UNIDIR’s latest publication by @beyzaunal examines how lessons from ICT security norms could inform future discussions on military AI.
🔗 Learn more: unidir.org/Cyber-to-AI
ALT Cover of a UNIDIR publication titled “From Cyberspace to AI” featuring a dark blue design with cybersecurity-themed digital graphics and an AI-focused military technology interface.
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💭 What does peace look like to you?
On #InternationalDayofPeace, revisit how young people answered through photos in UNIDIR’s Youth Visions of Peace campaign with @100cameras and @warchild.
Because peace is built with young people, not just for them.
🔗unidir.org/youth-visions
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Peace is in dangerously short supply.
But around the world, people are showing that we are not powerless.
Volunteers, advocates, civil society leaders, peacekeepers & peacemakers are bridging divides, uniting communities & pushing for dialogue.
On #PeaceDay, let's be inspired by their courage & call on world leaders to invest in a peaceful future for all.
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UNIDIR and @ODA_Geneva seventh annual Disarmament Orientation Course kicked off today! 🇺🇳🤝
Over the coming days, diplomats and officials newly arrived in Geneva will explore disarmament, arms control and today’s evolving security landscape.
Learn more: unidir.org/DOC2026
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⚛️ Could the convergence of quantum technologies and AI reshape military innovation?
UNIDIR’s primer explores potential defence applications of quantum-AI convergence and the risks it may create for transparency, accountability and responsible use.
🔗unidir.org/QuantumAI
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How can localization support inclusive implementation of the Convention on Cluster Munitions?
In Vientiane, UNIDIR brought together diplomats, mine action operators and researchers to explore how localization connects with gender equality and inclusion.
unidir.org/VientianeCall
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ALT Panel of six speakers at the 3rd Review Conference on Cluster Munitions discussing inclusion and gender equality in Vientiane, Vietnam.
ALT Five panel speakers stand in front of a conference stage with a large screen about gender equality in cluster munitions policy.
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Parents in Iraqi communities indicate they continue to feel uncomfortable with their children going to the same school as those of returnees from Syria.
UNIDIR’s report unpacks the social acceptance of returnees from Al-Hol Camp.
📖 unidir.org/acceptance
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🎓 New to the Geneva disarmament scene?
Hear from Mahmoud ElNasharty (@PMEgypt_Geneva 🇪🇬) on how the UNIDIR-@ODA_Geneva Disarmament Orientation Course helped him stay on top of developments across the different disarmament areas
🔗 unidir.org/DOC2026
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