Entwicklungstagung 2025

Aktuelles – Entwicklungstagung

“Peace, justice and stable institutions.”

Weighty words make up the 16th goal of the Sustainable Development Goals: Peace, justice and strong institutions. It formulates a grand vision, as peace and justice are ancient dreams of humankind. As the penultimate goal, it brings together more dimensions than any other of the United Nations‘ 17 Sustainable Development Goals. At first glance, these dimensions do not seem to fit together. However, upon closer examination, it becomes clear that almost all of the other SDGs cannot be achieved without inclusive, effective and accountable institutions. Many goals are invalid or even nullified without peace, while achieving them would bring great progress for justice. In this respect, SDG 16 is the central building block of the entire SDG architecture.
In the current global political situation, we see the following three dimensions as central to the debate at the Development Conference:

1. peace and conflict management

2. geopolitical interests and authoritarian tendencies

3. justice and environmental justice

SDG Goal 16, the theme of the Austrian Development Conference 2025 in Innsbruck, opens up a broad field of debate and discussion on fundamental questions of human development and liberation, but also on specific development policy strategies. The aim is to create positive images of sustainable development that also encompass legal dimensions and are strong enough to stand up to one-sided appropriation and thus productively support and stimulate the development debate!