TIME TO TURN AROUND: - THE DECLINE OF UK PEACEBUILDING - Even as global peacefulness has declined for ten of the past 14 years, UK spending on civilian

According to the Institute for Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Economics and Peace, ‘the average level of global peacefulness THE DECLINE OF UK the UK spent a greater percentage of its aid budget on civilian has deteriorated for ten of the past 14 years’. [...] We will increase our efforts emphasis on addressing the drivers of conflict (such instability, conflict and human suffering’, but fails 50 per cent of its budget in fragile on security and justice, which will further help as grievances, political marginalisation and criminal to transfer the earlier commitment to spend the states and regions. [...] The study establishes that efforts must be sustained, inclusive, and targeted.’ 1 Prioritise high-level peace and conflict 2020: the OECD States of Fragility report states that ‘[v]iolence is cyclical and protracted, meaning that the benefits of preventing prevention objectives within future foreign it, both in terms of lives and money saved, are significant and compounding each year. [...] 3 Increase the proportion of peacebuilding spending focused on gender equality as Core and secondary peacebuilding is an alternative measure of peacebuilding spending to the narrower OECD code ‘civilian a principal objective to 15 per cent, in line peacebuilding, conflict prevention and resolution’ which includes spending on 16 programming areas that contribute to peace, with UN targets. [...] The UK increased the proportion of its peacebuilding spending which supports gender equality as a principal objective from just Ensure that other UK interventions, one per cent in 2016 to seven per cent in 2019, but it still has a way to go to be on a par with other donors and to meet the United 6 including defence, diplomacy and Nations’ own 2010 recommended target of 15 per cent of peacebuilding.