The Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence has reviewed the government's report on Norway's international efforts in peace and conflict resolution. The government argues that peace diplomacy is central to Norwegian foreign policy and that Norway should continue prioritizing this field with adequate funding. The committee and various parties have put forward a series of proposals to strengthen and clarify Norway's approach.
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The Storting calls on the government to ratify the Kampala Amendment to the Rome Statute, enabling the International Criminal Court to prosecute crimes of aggression.
The Storting calls on the government to work toward international regulation of autonomous weapons and to pursue an international ban on the use of inaccurate explosive weapons in cities and densely populated areas.
The Storting calls on the government to assume international leadership in ensuring compliance with bans on cluster munitions and landmines.
The Storting calls on the government to sign the nuclear weapons prohibition treaty and present it to the Storting for ratification.
The Storting calls on the government to work toward NATO abandoning first-use nuclear policy and to establish Norway and the Nordic region as a nuclear-weapon-free zone.
The Storting calls on the government to present a cross-ministerial, multi-year long-term plan for peace with clear objectives, predictable funding, and defined responsibility. This plan should include strengthened Norwegian peace diplomacy, development cooperation addressing conflict drivers, support for a rules-based multilateral order, responsible arms export policy, and better integration between peace efforts and security policy.
The Storting calls on the government to strengthen the preventive dimension of Norway's peace and mediation work and to present updated procedures for early warning in conflict-prone areas.
The Storting calls on the government to clarify how diplomacy, humanitarian action, and development cooperation should be coordinated in Norwegian conflict and mediation processes, and to ensure this coordination is integrated into the Foreign Ministry's operational guidelines.
The Storting calls on the government to ensure women's inclusion and local ownership are built in as early and integral elements in Norwegian peace and dialogue processes, and to develop a plan for systematic involvement of local actors, civil society, and national mediation networks in analysis, process design, and implementation.
The Storting calls on the government to operationalize the measures in chapter 9 by clarifying what Norway should do more of, less of, and differently in its peace and dialogue efforts, and to present this to the Storting in an appropriate manner.
The Storting calls on the government to develop clear criteria for when Norway should take on, continue, or refrain from the role of facilitator in international peace and dialogue processes, and to present these criteria to the Storting in an appropriate manner.
The Storting calls on the government to strengthen the systematic learning from previous peace and dialogue processes, including those that did not achieve desired results, and to share relevant experience with the Storting in an appropriate manner.