On 3 June 2025, the Geneva peacebuilding Platform (GPP), together with the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) and the Austrian Institute for International Affairs (oiip), convened the third edition of GPF Meets meets Vienna at the Park Hyatt Vienna. Bringing together diplomats, practitioners, researchers, representatives of international organizations, civil society actors and peacebuilding experts. The event provided a platform to strengthen connections between Geneva and Vienna’s multilateral communities and to explore practical approaches to addressing today's complex peace and security challenges.
As one of our main initiatives GPF Meets extends the Forum’s mission beyond Geneva by fostering dialogue between different multilateral hubs and peacebuilding ecosystems. Following successful editions in Addis Ababa in 2025 and New York in 2023, the Vienna edition continued to build bridges between international policy communities, creating opportunities for collaboration, knowledge exchange and joint action on pressing global challenges.
The 2025 edition attracted strong interest, with 323 registrations and a total of 401 session attendances, including 337 in-person participants and 64 online participants across six panels and roundtable discussions.
