The Future of Peace and Security Project
In September 2025, the Alliance for Peacebuilding launched the Future of Peace and Security Project, which seeks to help international peacebuilding organizations based in the United States and beyond come together in the face of current disruptions, determine how to adapt to shifting global dynamics, and develop a compelling vision, messages, ideas, and partnerships to win wider support for peacebuilding, conflict prevention, and inclusive human security approaches.
The Future of Peace and Security Coalition
The Future of Peace and Security Coalition, comprised of over 150 international peacebuilding experts, practitioners, and organizations is mobilizing to meet this consequential moment and shape the future. Join us!
Key Objectives
Develop an innovative vision for the future of peace and security and potential indicators of “success” for the peacebuilding field over the short, medium, and long-term.
Create a working framework for operationalizing the agreed upon vision of the future of peace and security.
Identify further research and learning necessary to adapt peacebuilding and related security laws, policies, practices, and tools to meet emerging future global trends.
Develop and amplify messaging, storytelling, and narratives that creatively make the case and build support for peacebuilding across diverse audiences.
Create new partnerships and champions of and support for peacebuilding.
Key Principles
Focus on the opportunities; embrace innovation and change. The current moment provides an opportunity to assess what was and was not working well in terms of law, policy, funding, and practice and reimagine and amplify the most effective approaches. Shaping the future will require openness to new models, partnerships, and programs. Emerging technologies could provide ways to adapt and scale peacebuilding tools to prevent and reduce violent conflict.
Be confident about what we know and have learned. Peace research and practice have made significant advancements and surfaced the key factors that lead to violence and how to foster sustainable peace and security. We have more data than ever before, driving new insights, understanding about existing and emerging challenges, and critical reflections on the past, which can allow us to build a peace and security agenda that is fit-for-purpose.
Be humble about the shortcomings and limits of efforts to date. While we have learned a lot, international peace and security efforts over recent decades have yielded mixed results, and research gaps to demonstrate impact and best practices persist. Furthermore, the field of peacebuilding is still under-recognized in broader foreign policy circles and remains siloed in law, policy, and practice from other sectors. Concurrently, public skepticism of peace and security interventions and popular support for violent approaches to societal problems is increasing.
Strive for collaboration; prioritize “big tent” approaches. Competition in the face of resource scarcity can fuel innovation, but also risks diminishing the field. The bipartisan project will seek to unify efforts, break down silos, and pursue partnerships with diverse governments, institutions, sectors, and stakeholders to maximize influence, integrate peacebuilding approaches, and shape the future.
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