International Fund for Peace
From Crises to Sustainable Peace
International Fund for Peace (IF4Peace) is being established to support countries in building the national peace infrastructures needed to prevent violence, manage conflict, and sustain peace.
Why IF4Peace
The Challenge
Conflict risk is rising faster than the systems designed to prevent it. More societies are facing overlapping pressures: polarization, institutional distrust, ecological stress, information disorder, economic insecurity, and geopolitical fragmentation.
Yet most support still arrives after tensions have hardened into crisis. Countries need stronger national capacities to detect risks early, manage differences, and prevent violence before it spreads.
Our Response
IF4Peace is being built for a new age of global risk. We will support country-led efforts to sense risks early, build consensus, strengthen trusted institutions, and manage instability before tensions turn violent.
Just as Gavi and the Global Fund helped transform global health by mobilizing expertise, financing, and country-led systems, IF4Peace aims to help transform peacebuilding from episodic crisis response into sustained national capacity.
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What is needed is a new paradigm for peace, one that is holistic in scope, nationally grounded, scalable, and oriented toward the long term.
Robert J. Berg and Lord Desmond Browne
Founding Trustees, IF4Peace
Originally published in “A New Paradigm for Building Peace,” European Leadership Network, 8 December 2025
Engage With IF4Peace
Help build the next generation of peace infrastructure. IF4Peace welcomes conversations with governments, funders, companies, researchers, journalists, civic leaders, and institutions working to prevent violence and strengthen national resilience.
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