At the United Nations launch of the inaugural Peacebuilding Overview Report during Peacebuilding Week, one figure stood out: the world spends one dollar on peace for every hundred dollars it spends on the military.
That imbalance has persisted for two decades. It is not an accident. It is what happens when military spending is treated as necessary and peacebuilding as optional.
The launch event, framed around the theme “Investing in Peace When the World Pays for War,” introduced the first report in a new Peacebuilding Overview series, Building Peace in a Changing World. It arrives when the need for peacebuilding is rising and the political appetite for funding it is falling. Conflicts are at their highest number since systematic data collection began. Nearly two billion people now live in countries affected by fragility, conflict, or violence. At the same time, the money available to help societies prevent violence, recover from war, and rebuild trust is shrinking. Läs artikel