Finance for Peace launched in London

Finance for Peace’s objective is to create a market for peace-aligned investments, which incorporates peacebuilding work in the projects being funded.

Our mission is to create market integrity through setting standards for peace-aligned finance that strengthens community resilience, reduces risks, and delivers long-term value for investors and society.

We also bring investors, project owners, peacebuilders, and other stakeholders together through our market network. In addition, we create and support publicly available research on peace-aligned finance.

Peace and stability are critical requirements for long-term economic growth and prosperity, and almost 75% of the world’s population living in extreme poverty reside in fragile and conflict-affected countries. Social and political risks related to fragility block investment from reaching these places.

Finance for Peace aims to address these fundamental problems and market failures by establishing norms, standards, and guidance, conducting research and building a market network across the financial sector, government, civil society, and peacebuilding sectors. 

We seek to create incentive structures and an enabling environment for a new category of financial investment that demonstrably builds peace, and to leverage the energy, wisdom, and resources of supporting organisations and individuals to create a collective impact for peace. 

Our goal is to become a global public good with a strong orientation to the finance sector, seeking to bridge the different forms of knowledge between finance, peacebuilding, companies, and governments.