The UNIDIR Roundup and Outlook 2025 looks back at a challenging year for international security and highlights how UNIDIR and the wider United Nations have worked to address an array of complex and converging global security issues.
By collaborating with an increasingly diverse network of partners around the world, we have sharpened our focus on frontier technologies, pushed the boundaries of knowledge through major conferences on key issues, put capacity-building at the core of what we do, and innovated for impact through new additions to our suite of digital confidence-building tools.
UNIDIR will continue to tackle critical issues, generate innovative solutions and foster dialogue despite division in 2025, a year that will see both the launch of our next five-year strategy and celebration of our 45th anniversary.
With the eyes of the world once again on weapons, we have both an opportunity and an obligation to remind the international community of what disarmament and arms control can do.