The Standards Committee sets the Finance for Peace Standards and certifies that suitable actions to reduce conflict risk are incorporated into an investment. Investments across asset classes that meet the Standards receive Finance for Peace certification.
The StandardsThrough its Market Network it brings investors, project developers, governments, peace experts and local partners together to put the Standards to work in real transactions.
The Market NetworkPeace measures reduce conflict risk, certification makes that reduction credible, and a market for peace-aligned finance can then form.
Peace measures, funded within the project, address conflict risk at its source. This is a financially material approach that can improve risk-adjusted returns, not an ethical screen.
Investors can only price and communicate risk reduction they can verify. The Finance for Peace Standards and independent certification, verified every year, give the market that confidence.
With a credible label, capital can flow to projects that were once too uncertain to finance, mobilising private finance for peace at scale and benefiting the communities involved.
Conflict risks are defined as risks that can lead to non-violent and violent conflicts, driven by a range of factors, including political, social and environmental factors, and that potentially can undermine a project’s viability, profitability and outcomes.
These risks can arise wherever a project affects the people and places around it, in stable as well as fragile markets, including through its value chain.
When a project is designed without an awareness of local realities, conflict risk grows step by step until it reaches the balance sheet. Peace measures address it at the first steps, where it costs least.
Illustrative chain of effects
Local realities are overlooked in project design, operations or the value chain
Benefits reach some groups and not others, land is contested, or suppliers deepen tensions
Protests, disputes or legal action
Delays, stoppages, supply shocks and cost overruns
Higher risk premiums, weaker ratings and reputational damage
Peace measures act here
Peace measures include, for example, analysis of local context and needs, consultation and agreed benefit-sharing and grievance mechanisms that work.
Certification signals that a project is taking conflict risks into account and taking measures to reduce them. It is reviewed every year by an independent verifier.
Launched at the 2026 Stockholm Forum on Peace and Development, the Standards now apply across all asset classes.
A project-level approach to pricing risk in fragile regions, so a project’s conduct, not only its country, sets its cost of capital.
How a Peace Bond can be structured so peace measures reduce risk and improve the investment case.