On 17 November, the African Union Peace and Security Council and the United Nations Peacebuilding Commission held their Eighth Annual Joint Consultative Meeting in Addis Ababa. The session coincided with the AU Post Conflict Reconstruction and Development Awareness Week and Youth Peace and Security Month. It was co chaired by Amb. Churchill Ewumbue Monono, Permanent Representative of Cameroon to the AU and PSC Chair for November 2025, and Amb. Ricklef Beutin, Permanent Representative of Germany to the UN and Chair of the UNPBC.
Focusing on Youth, Development, and Peacebuilding, the meeting stressed the need to recognize Youth as co-architects of peace, not passive participants, and emphasized gender-responsive approaches, digital governance, and effective use of social media to advance peacebuilding and sustainable peace.
Both the AUPSC and UNPBC members acknowledged that predictable financing and national ownership of peacebuilding processes are the core imperatives of peacebuilding. On the country specific and sub-regional agenda, the meeting discussed the situation in South Sudan, Sahel and the Lake Chad Basin region. The meeting reaffirmed the AU–UN partnership as central to advancing peacebuilding priorities in Africa. Read the full joint statement in English and French.
