The United Nations peacebuilding architecture—consisting of the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC), the secretary-general’s Peacebuilding Fund (PBF), and the Peacebuilding Support Office (PBSO)—is undergoing its fourth review since its creation in 2005. The purpose of the Peacebuilding Architecture Review (PBAR) is to strengthen the UN’s capacity to prevent conflict and build sustainable peace. Unlike previous processes, this […] The post Whose Peace Is It, Anyway? Defining Ownership in...| IPI Global Observatory
Celtel and Search for Common Ground partnered to expand mobile connectivity in conflict-affected areas, strengthening communication, connecting communities, rebuilding trust, and supporting economic recovery in post-war Sierra Leone.| Vision of Humanity
IGAD is pushing for an increasingly gender-inclusive peacebuilding in Kenya, as well as its other East African members states.| Peace News Network
Lush Cosmetics' partnership with Colombia’s Peace Community demonstrates how core business activities can become direct peacebuilding mechanisms and support non-violent economic alternatives in conflict-affected areas.| Vision of Humanity
As peace operations falter worldwide, Namibia’s lasting success shows peacekeeping must be more than a crisis response; it must be a sustained, strategic commitment. Read more.| Vision of Humanity
While nations focus on spending on defence, a network of quiet changemakers is growing, people at the grassroots who refuse to accept conflict as inevitable.| Vision of Humanity
By shifting our perspective, we can uncover pathways for more equitable, locally driven peace initiatives that challenge, rather than reinforce, colonial frameworks.| Contending Modernities
Without critical analysis of the gendered, racialized, and sexualized asymmetry of power . . . interreligious peacebuilding serves only a heteropatriarchal neocolonialism.| Contending Modernities
