Peacebuilding, Official Development Assistance, and the Sustainable Development Goals: The United Nations Peacebuilding Funding Dashboard

The field of peacebuilding—contrary to the fields of development and humanitarian action— remains to adopt data standards for what constitutes peacebuilding. The challenge relates in part to the absence of agreed-upon definitions of peace itself. Consequently, peacebuilding activities are often fragmented with limited transparency and coordination among activities and actors. Defining peacebuilding exclusively by what peacebuilders do would not capture the full breath of activities and actors that indeed contribute to peacebuilding outcomes—including actors that are not traditionally labelled as peacebuilders. Defining peacebuilding by achieved outcomes would also not be practical, given the dearth of evaluations in peacebuilding.