Resilient Voices: From Poetry to Peace - SDG Media Zone | United Nations

United Nations General Assembly commemoration · February 14, 2026

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Introduction and invitation to recite poem

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Moderator introduced Maryam Boukhar Hassan (artistically Alhan Islam) as the United Nations' first global advocate for peace, referenced her poem 'peace is a verb' and asked whether she remembered the first stanza and would recite it for the audience.

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An interviewer introduced Maryam Boukhar Hassan (artist Alhan Islam), the United Nations' first global advocate for peace, who recited a stanza of her poem and described her upbringing in northern Nigeria, the founding of True My Voice and her plans to use digital storytelling and partnerships to translate lived experience of conflict into policy and action.

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