{"id":24908,"date":"2026-10-27T13:03:41","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T12:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.peaceagency.org\/?p=24908"},"modified":"2026-10-27T13:06:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T12:06:19","slug":"when-aid-falls-peace-picks-the-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peaceagency.org\/en\/when-aid-falls-peace-picks-the-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"When Aid falls, Peace picks the bill"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"24908\" class=\"elementor elementor-24908\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-300ec3b e-flex e-con-boxed sc_layouts_column_icons_position_left e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"300ec3b\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9e188de elementor-drop-cap-yes elementor-drop-cap-view-default sc_fly_static elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"9e188de\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;drop_cap&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><i>Conflict and violence are reaching historic levels; however international aid is being slashed. The reduction of development, humanitarian and peacebuilding assistance weakens the economic and institutional foundations that support peace and prevent conflict.<\/i><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7c2e7a0 e-flex e-con-boxed sc_layouts_column_icons_position_left e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"7c2e7a0\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ce4e274 sc_fly_static elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"ce4e274\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h5 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">A more violent world<span style=\"font-size: 20px\"><\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8047312 sc_fly_static elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"8047312\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sixty-five conflicts. Eighty years. Around 245,000 people killed. In 2025 we counted<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.cloud.prio.org\/files\/6f3c619f-6267-4d6b-be19-7bb16dfad782\/Conflict%20trends%20A%20global%20overview%201946-2025%20-%20PRIO%20Paper%202026.pdf?inline=true\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">65 state-based-conflict<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the highest figure for the last 80 years -just after WWII-, and last year approximately<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.cloud.prio.org\/files\/6f3c619f-6267-4d6b-be19-7bb16dfad782\/Conflict%20trends%20A%20global%20overview%201946-2025%20-%20PRIO%20Paper%202026.pdf?inline=true\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">245.000 deaths from organised political violence<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0 The estimated economic cost of violence is close to<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visionofhumanity.org\/maps\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">USD 22 trillion, over 10% of global GDP<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. At the same time,<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oecd.org\/en\/data\/insights\/data-explainers\/2026\/04\/a-historic-decline-in-foreign-aid-preliminary-2025-oda-data.html\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">official development assistance fell by 23%<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oecd.org\/en\/data\/insights\/data-explainers\/2026\/04\/a-historic-decline-in-foreign-aid-preliminary-2025-oda-data.html\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Humanitarian Aid by 36%<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Confused with the numbers? Of course we are, the numbers do not seem to make sense.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6bee1e5 sc_fly_static elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"6bee1e5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h5 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">The economics of resilience\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px\"><\/span><\/h5>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-06de84b sc_fly_static elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"06de84b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Economic fragility does not automatically create conflict. However it weakens the mechanisms societies have available to manage tension. A society with inequality, poverty, unemployment or lack of public services is less resilient to face crisis or shocks and can exacerbate political instability or even violence.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400;\">Development aid is one of the tools available to address these vulnerabilities. By reducing poverty, sustaining public services, expanding education and creating economic opportunities, it can strengthen institutions and give people a greater stake in stability. Yet this form of preventive investment is being heavily cut.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400;\">Once conflict arises, people suffer, services are interrupted, people flee and seek refuge, markets contract and livelihoods disappear. Humanitarian assistance becomes critical to keep peoples alive and preserve dignity. Yet humanitarian aid, also that one, has been decimated by 36%.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400;\">Similar pattern affects<\/span><a style=\"font-size: 16px; background-color: #ffffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oecd.org\/en\/publications\/peace-and-official-development-assistance_fccfbffc-en.html\"> peacebuilding<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400;\">. Conflict prevention funding was in 2023 less that 4% of all aid, and peace related Official Aid to highly fragile countries were at its second lowest since 2004. It looks, reconciliation, dialogue, social cohesion and mediation are considered as optional, even they are crucial.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400;\">Out of the confusion one could thing that is bad luck, that there is lack of money.<\/span><a style=\"font-size: 16px; background-color: #ffffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sipri.org\/media\/press-release\/2026\/global-military-spending-rise-continues-european-and-asian-expenditures-surge\"> Global military expenditure has increased uninterruptedly for eleven consecutive years, reaching 2.8T USD in 2025<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400;\"> or more than 500 times development aid to fragile countries. It is not about comparing budgets, but it is about how we decide insecurity is going to be managed and peace achieved.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6ebebf5 e-flex e-con-boxed sc_layouts_column_icons_position_left e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"6ebebf5\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c01857b sc_fly_static elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"c01857b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h5 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">The price of peace<\/h5>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b4d6bd2 sc_fly_static elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"b4d6bd2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We want a peaceful world, or so we say, yet we are in the process of stripping away many of the systems that support peace: we increase military expenditure, we reduce assistance to victims, and we slash the investment in the resilience of countries and communities. <\/span><b><i>Of course you are confused! <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Are we stupidly assuming that is better to manage insecurity once violence has begun than to prevent the violence from emerging?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But we are not na\u00efve, we know money can\u2019t buy peace by itself. Diplomacy is needed, dialogue is indispensable, accountability is fundamental, mediation is essential. But all those tools are of little use when the societies are struggling to survive, legitimacy of institutions have evaporated and is fear and not hope in the hearts of the people. Political agreements to last require social and economic foundations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Peace requires more than absence of violence. Peace requires economies that provide opportunities and fulfil needs, institutions that serve citizens, public services that act as a equaliser and as buffer against those in despair, and communities that can face crisis without collapsing, hope on the future. Aid is one contributor of those requirements. Cutting aid therefore does not only reduce assistance, but it also reduces the chances of preventing conflict and violence, ending it when appears and sustaining peace afterwards. If we dismantle the pillars of resilience, how we will claim surprise, or pretend to be confused, when peace becomes fragile?<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fa07dfb e-flex e-con-boxed sc_layouts_column_icons_position_left e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"fa07dfb\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cf45104 e-con-full e-flex sc_layouts_column_icons_position_left e-con e-child\" data-id=\"cf45104\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-640d212 elementor-widget__width-auto elementor-widget-divider--view-line sc_fly_static elementor-widget elementor-widget-divider\" data-id=\"640d212\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"divider.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-divider\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-divider-separator\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8ee5e52 sc_fly_static elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"8ee5e52\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h6 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">About the author: <b>Fran Equiza<\/b><\/h6>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3a62502 sc_fly_static elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3a62502\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Fran Equiza<\/strong> brings three decades of humanitarian and development experience to his work on dialogue, peacebuilding, and artificial intelligence. A former UNICEF Representative in Afghanistan, Syria, Mali, and the Central African Republic, UN Deputy Humanitarian Coordinator, and Oxfam Regional Director, he has negotiated with governments, armed actors, and communities to sustain humanitarian access and essential services. He has complemented this experience with professional education in peacebuilding, mediation, and negotiation. 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