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Insights, Tools and Connections for Peace-Positive Investment
Your hub for workshops, practical guidance, spotlight initiatives, and community collaboration on peace-positive investments.
What is Peace Finance?
Peace finance is a new and emerging approach that aligns capital with peace and stability. It is the intentional design of funding and capital structures so that trust, inclusion, cooperation, and legitimacy become financially material.
Peace outcomes cannot simply be attributed to financing unless these stabilising factors are meaningfully reflected in financial decisions. So, where do these factors become financially material inside funding and investment structures? This question will guide the upcoming Peace-Positive Investment Workshop Series, where we will explore how this design logic applies to real initiatives, funding models and investment structures.
Starter Toolkit
Workshops & Events
Peace Finance Workshop 1 - From Principles to Practice
Foundational understanding of peace finance concepts, frameworks, and real-world applications. Date: TBD
Peace Finance Workshop 2 Applying the Standard
Hands-on workshop applying the Peace Finance Standard to real cases. Date: TBD.
Peace Finance Workshop 3 – Community of Practice
Interactive institutional workshop for staff cohorts to explore and co-create peace-positive solutions. Date: TBD.
Co-hosted with The Hague Humanity Hub, this 75-minute introductory session marked the launch of the Peace Finance Workshop Series.
The session, held on March 10th, 2026, introduced the Peace Finance approach and explored how peace-positive design becomes relevant for real investment decisions.
Spotlight Initiatives
How DFIs are rethinking investment in fragile and frontier markets
The Africa Resilience Investment Accelerator (ARIA), a joint initiative by FMO, British International Investment, and Proparco, explores how development finance institutions can invest in fragile and frontier markets in a conflict-sensitive way.
The report highlights a growing recognition that investment decisions in these contexts are not neutral. Choices around sectors, geographies, and value chains shape inclusion, resilience, and local power dynamics.
ARIA points to the need for more adaptive investment approaches, including longer time horizons, local currency solutions, and market-creation strategies tailored to high-risk environments.
At the same time, it raises an important next step:
how these dynamics translate into investment design itself—how risk is assessed, how incentives are structured, and how capital behaves in practice.
HDP Fund
An emerging blended-finance vehicle focused on fragile and displacement-affected settings, exploring how peace-intentional design can strengthen stability, legitimacy, and investment performance. Developed by Shuraako Capital, Human Planet Ventures, and Interpeace
Peace Finance Forum 2026
The Peace Finance Forum (April 2026), held alongside the ECOSOC Financing for Development Forum, brought together a wide range of actors working to mobilise capital in fragile and conflict-affected contexts.
A high-level panel hosted at the German Mission to the United Nations was co-organized by the German Federal Foreign Office, the United Nations Peacebuilding and Peace Support Office, UNDP, and UNCDF, with support from the Governments of Japan and Norway.
The event examined why financing peace economies must become central to the Financing for Development agenda, with speakers emphasizing that peace should be treated as an investable asset and intentionally embedded in investment decision-making.
Blog / Updates
“Risk Is the Wrong Object”: Rethinking Capital for Peace
Finance keeps looking for peace downstream in risk — but peace begins upstream, in how capital is designed to behave. Discover why treating risk as the objective misses the point and how peace-differentiated finance reshapes incentives and outcomes.
Building Peace Economies: what is actually happening now, and what’s still missing
Peace already underpins economic performance, but it remains poorly articulated in financial language. This article scans emerging initiatives linking peace, risk, and investment – from funds and hubs to PeaceTech – and asks what is still missing to make peace intentional and investable at scale.
Peace Finance in 2025: From Principles to Practice
Peace finance has moved from concept to practice. In 2025, new standards, instruments, and partnerships are making peace not only possible, but investable.
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