‘Break the cycle of violence’ through prevention and peacebuilding, Security Council told

Elizabeth Spehar, Assistant Secretary-General for Peacebuilding Support, addressed the Council’s high-level debate on the UN Secretary-General’s

Launched in July 2023, the policy brief shows how conflict prevention and peacebuilding can help to reverse the trend towards violence while reducing the human and economic costs of war.

Break the cycle

“Prevention and peacebuilding can break the cycle of violence and lay the…