Authors : Celestine Okechukwu, Nwosu

Volume/Issue : Volume 11 - 2026, Issue 4 - April

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DOI : https://doi.org/10.38124/ijisrt/26apr349

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Abstract : This paper examines the new paradigms in global peace financing with particular focus on how the United Nations is evolving from peacekeeping to peacebuilding or sustaining peace in the face of growing global peace and security challenges. The central argument of the paper is that for decades, the United Nations was preoccupied with the financing of peacekeeping operations while marginalizing the financing of peacebuilding in the maintenance of peace and security. This wasthe case despite the fact that peacekeeping was, and still is a costly strategy for achieving peace. Worse still, conflicts persisted after many decades of peacekeeping involving substantial peace financing. However, it is noteworthy and commendable that since the early 1990s, the United Nations recognized the inadequacy of peacekeeping and ushered in a paradigm shift, prioritizing peacebuilding. In pursuance of peacebuilding, the United nations has established an array of peace financing institutions and various streams for mobilizing funds for peace keeping. Anchored on Integrative Peace Theory (IPT) and utilizing secondary data, the paper highlights the burdens and limitations of financing peacekeeping and argues that the United Nations’ refocusing on the financing of peacebuilding is a timely and the most effective strategy for achieving sustaining peace if it is well implemented. Given its intertwinement with conflict prevention, sustaining peace, peace education, and a culture of peace, peacebuilding can offer a more enduring pathway for achieving peace and security in the world generally, and Africa in particular. Therefore, peace financing should be directed to the issues of conflict prevention, peace education and the fostering of a peace culture.

Keywords : The United Nations, Peace and Security, Sustainable Development, Peace Financing, Peacebuilding, Sustaining Peace.

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