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Addressing Fragility through Integrated Peacebuilding
February 2025
Stockholm
SIPRI
The world today is facing unrelenting and interrelated environmental, ecological, demographic, socio-economic and political pressures that challenge resources at local, national, regional and global levels. Addressing these crises requires integrated approaches that respond to their compounding nature as well as new funding modalities to spur effective collaboration.
This SIPRI Insights on Peace and Security paper explores both the opportunities and processes for reforming aid provision in fragile settings. The paper advocates for an integrated peacebuilding approach that tackles multiple complex issues together in a collaborative, long-term and interlinked manner. It outlines necessary changes at the political, donor and organizational levels to make this approach a reality.
Table of contents
I. Introduction
II. The need to act
III. Towards aid effectiveness
IV. Conclusions
ABOUT THE AUTHOR(S)/EDITORS
Dr Dylan O’Driscoll is an Associate Senior Fellow in the SIPRI Middle East and North Africa Programme.
Ottilia Anna Maunganidze is the Head of Special Projects at the Institute for Security Studies. She advises on institutional strategy, coordinates cross-cutting work and explores new and emerging areas.
Dr Markus Mayer is the Head of the Crisis Response and Peacebuilding Unit at the German Development Cooperation (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit, GIZ). For over 20 years he has worked on issues related to poverty and economic dimensions of conflict, including peace process management and business for peace interventions in fragile settings.