Global Centre for Peacebuilding and Business
Helping governments, investors, businesses, and communities prevent and resolve extractives related conflict.
About
“All conflict begins with a failure to communicate.”
Cardinal Stephen Brislin
With increasing conflict and growing demand for natural resources the Global Centre for Peacebuilding & Business is dedicated to helping governments, investors, other financial actors, businesses, and communities prevent conflict.
Informed by those present in conflict environments, the Global Centre supports approaches to both reduce the risk of conflict happening, and where there is an existing conflict supports dialogue to build conditions for peace and sustainable and shared progress.
The costs of resource conflict
The costs of conflicts ripple across communities, companies, and countries.
Unresolved tensions around facilities, sites, and operations can disrupt delivery, drive up costs, and erode long-term value for investors and businesses. For governments, they can undermine public trust, fuel instability, drive violent conflict, and hinder development goals. For communities, they can threaten livelihoods and identities, stall development, and restrict access to essential resources.
Understanding these drivers is essential for everyone. Peaceful, responsible and collaborative resource management creates more secure and resilient systems for all.
Supporting peacebuilding and reconciliation within conflict impacted communities
Our ApproachThe Global Centre for Peacebuilding and Business takes the principles of peacebuilding established by faith leaders globally to help transform and resolve conflicts around natural resources and their extraction.
We envision a world where conflicts are addressed through dialogue grounded in integrity, dignity, and mutual respect. Where institutions, communities, and leaders have the trust, capability, and relationships they need to build lasting peace.
Our mission is to bridge the gap between local communities and resource-based industries, central governments and global investors to ensure meaningful and long-term community engagement.
We do this by:
- Convening diverse actors across governments, communities, industry, civil society, investors and other financial actors
- Building dialogue strategies to reduce tensions and build trust
- Sharing insights and learning from global research on conflict trajectories and scenarios, voices from those impacted by the conflict and deep local knowledge
- Strengthening systems for peaceful cooperation, so resource development contributes to long-term stability
Our current programmes
Learn more of the GCPB’s approaches in different countries:
Cornerstone Churches
The Cornerstone Churches, St Mary’s Warwick, St John’s Edinburgh, and Christ Church Winchester, play a central role in anchoring the GCPB’s work to build a movement in support of peacebuilding and reconciliation in conflict-affected communities, ensuring that peacebuilding is both locally rooted and globally connected.
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