Quaker United Nations Office Geneva

The Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO) in Geneva and New York seeks to bring Quaker peace and justice concerns to international processes in the areas of, peace and disarmament, human rights and refugees, climate change, and food & sustainability.

Our style of work is focussed on “quiet diplomacy” providing intellectual and physical space for building understanding, exploring alternatives, providing information and helping change attitudes, including through off the record informal small-group conversations among diplomats, UN staff, NGOs, experts and those in the field. We also use our general consultative status at the United Nations’ Economic and Social Council and our observer status in several other international bodies to make oral and written statements based on our research and experience and that of others.