Building Peace-Positive Markets: The Intersection of Gender, Conflict Prevention, and the Environment (A Path to Ottawa Event)

May 27, 2026 | Alliance for Peacebuilding and Women
online
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 With escalating climate threats, deepening conflict risks, and persistent gender inequities, siloed approaches to peacebuilding and development are failing. The intersection of environmental crises, armed conflict, and gender inequality creates compounding vulnerabilities, but also unprecedented opportunities for integrated solutions that generate both peace dividends and financial returns. This 90-minute dialogue convenes unexpected allies—environmental peacebuilders, private sector investors, and gender equality advocates—to build shared language and identify common goals. The session will explore how capital mechanisms and community-led enterprises, particularly those centering women and youth, can create de-risked investment opportunities in fragile- and conflict-affected regions and how new cross-sector alliances can unlock sustainable investment where it's needed most. Facilitated discussion will highlight practical paths forward for translating peacebuilding concepts (social cohesion, conflict sensitivity) into investor frameworks (risk mitigation, ROI) and structuring capital that ensures women and youth are decision-makers and equity holders, not just beneficiaries.   

Please join the Alliance for Peacebuilding and Women for Women International on May 27th 10am EDT for a virtual roundtable discussion on "Building Peace-Positive Markets: The Intersection of Gender, Conflict Prevention, and the Environment".

Please register here.