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How a rural women’s cooperative in a former conflict zone formed the heart of a new business partnership. During Liberia’s long civil war Lofa County was synonymous with inter-ethnic rivalry and violence. As thousands of people fled across the border to Guinea or Sierra Leone, or were displaced internally, farms were abandoned or taken over […]

Reflections from the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting January 2024, held under the theme: Rebuilding Trust.  A better calibration of entrepreneurs, businesses, and investors in frontier markets can help shake off the doom and gloom of global fragility and build a safer world. Although conflict is on the rise, at the grassroots in many countries […]

Geneva, 3rd October 2023 – The Peace Dividend Initiative (PDI), a not-for-profit foundation dedicated to harnessing market forces for peace, and Symbiotics, the leading market access platform for impact investing, today announced the Peace Venture Fund, a partnership between the two organizations to invest in peace-supporting businesses and support entrepreneurs in fragile and at-risk countries. […]

For the United Nations (UN), the year 2020 marked the beginning of a new era of conflict and violence, characterized by a proliferation of entrenched conflicts among non-state actors, an ever-present threat of terrorism, and soaring rates of urban, domestic, and gender-based violence. Since the release of the 2020 report, the gravity of these trends […]

Para leer la versión en español, por favor siga este enlace. For many years, Asdrúbal and Segundo lived and fought in the rugged jungles of southwestern Colombia as members of the FARC guerrilla group at war with the state. Now, in those same jungles around Meta and Tumaco, they are turning cocoa beans into gourmet […]

As the world leaders gather in Davos under the theme ‘Cooperation in a Fragmented World’, PDI’s CEO, Liam Foran, explains why it’s more important than ever to give the private sector a new voice in peace-making operations and to harness innovative finance to support entrepreneurs for peace.