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Announcements and events from Investing for Peace, a curated resource library, and the foundational documents behind I4P.

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Announcements & events

Resource library

Key documents shaping the field of peace finance

Our selection of key documents on private investment, blended finance and peace in fragile and conflict-affected settings.

  • Africa Resilience Investment Accelerator (ARIA) (2023). Conflict sensitivity: practical measures for private sector clients.Produced with the IFC and EIB; authored by Dieu-Donné Gameli.  ·  Open source →
  • Africa Resilience Investment Accelerator (ARIA) (2026). Applying conflict sensitivity and building resilience through private sector investment.Produced by ARIA (BII, FMO, Proparco) and IFC.  ·  Open source →
  • African Development Bank Group (2022). Bank Group’s strategy for addressing fragility and building resilience in Africa 2022–2026.Three priorities: institutional capacity, resilient societies, and catalysing private investment.  ·  Open source →
  • African Development Bank Group & Interpeace (2023). AfDB and Interpeace join hands to promote peace finance in Africa [press release].MoU with the Finance for Peace Initiative, plus a joint Mozambique research project.  ·  Open source →
  • Basile, I. & Neunuebel, C. (2019). Blended finance in fragile contexts: opportunities and risks.OECD Development Co-operation Working Paper 62. Paris: OECD Publishing.  ·  Open source →
  • Collier, P., Gregory, N. & Ragoussis, A. (2019). Pioneering firms in fragile and conflict-affected states.Policy Research Working Paper 8774. Washington, DC: World Bank Group.  ·  Open source →
  • European Investment Bank (2022). EIB strategic approach to fragility and conflict.The Bank’s first such strategy. Luxembourg: EIB.  ·  Open source →
  • Ganson, B. (2026). A peace-positive enterprise for the Global South: problem statements and paths forward conceptualized through a mediation lens.European Journal of Futures Research, 14(1), Article 22.  ·  Open source →
  • Independent Evaluation Group (2022). The IFC’s and MIGA’s support for private investment in fragile and conflict-affected situations, FY2010–21.Washington, DC: World Bank.  ·  Open source →
  • International Finance Corporation (2019). Generating private investment in fragile and conflict-affected areas.Washington, DC: IFC.  ·  Open source →
  • Interpeace & African Development Bank (2024). Investing in prevention: scaling up peace — a call to action for DFIs [concept note, UNGA79 side event].The clearest statement of AfDB’s peace-positive investment positioning.  ·  Open source →
  • Kaye, J. L., Hannachi, J. & Jacquand, M. (2021). The conditions for successful investments in fragile and conflict-affected states.TrustWorks Global with NIRAS, commissioned by FMO.  ·  Open source →
  • Miklian, J., van Dorp, M. & Katsos, J. (2025). Unlocking the peace premium: an evidence-based review of the potentials and pitfalls of private sector finance for conflict transformation.London: LSE IDEAS, commissioned by Finance for Peace (Interpeace).  ·  Open source →
  • OECD (2019). DAC Recommendation on the Humanitarian–Development–Peace Nexus, OECD/LEGAL/5019.Eleven principles across coordination, programming and financing.  ·  Open source →
  • OECD (2025). States of Fragility 2025.A spectrum of extreme, high, and medium-to-low fragility across 177 contexts; six dimensions across 56 indicators.  ·  Open source →
  • Proparco (2024). Acting in fragile contexts: financing, partnerships, innovation.Private Sector & Development, No. 41. Paris: Proparco.  ·  Open source →
  • United Nations (2025). 2025 Review of the UN Peacebuilding Architecture.Twin General Assembly and Security Council resolutions adopted 26 November 2025.  ·  Open source →
  • United Nations & World Bank (2018). Pathways for peace: inclusive approaches to preventing violent conflict.Foundational joint prevention study; exclusion and grievance as the central causal claim.  ·  Open source →
  • United Nations Global Compact & PRI (2010). Guidance on responsible business in conflict-affected and high-risk areas.Still the reference point for investor-facing conflict-sensitivity expectations.  ·  Open source →
  • United Nations Secretary-General (2023). Our Common Agenda Policy Brief 9: A New Agenda for Peace.Contains a dedicated financing-for-peace section.  ·  Open source →
  • Wadley, I. (2026). The +P peace impact framework: field testing and peer insights.Geneva: Peace Dividend Initiative.  ·  Open source →
  • World Bank Group (2020). World Bank Group strategy for fragility, conflict and violence 2020–2025.The four-pillar framing under which IFC FCS work sits.  ·  Open source →

Foundational documents

On Investing for Peace

The principal analyses and studies underpinning I4P:

  • GFFO Discussion Paper (2020). Options for Innovative Funding in Support of United Nations Peacebuilding.Authored by Pierre Van Hoeylandt, Anne Le More and Ian D. Quick.  ·  Download PDF →
  • Investing for Peace (2022). Feasibility study.Produced for the German Federal Foreign Office; authored by Lions Head Global Partners.  ·  Download PDF →