Global Centre for Peacebuilding and Business
Helping governments, investors, businesses, and communities prevent and resolve extractives related conflict.
About
“All conflict begins with a failure to communicate.”
Cardinal Stephen Brislin
Natural resources are essential to human development and global progress. Increasing global demand for resources is driving ambition and scale in extraction.
However, conflicts occur more frequently around extractive sites, where extreme disparities between scarcity and abundance fuel unrest.
The Global Centre for Peacebuilding & Business is dedicated to helping governments, investors, businesses, and communities prevent conflict. We build dialogue strategies that reduce risks and strengthen resilience, creating the conditions for sustainable and shared progress.
The costs of resource conflict
The costs of conflicts ripple across communities, companies, and countries.
Unresolved tensions around facilities, sites, and operations can disrupt delivery, drive up costs, and erode long-term value for investors and businesses. For governments, they can undermine public trust, fuel instability, drive violent conflict, and hinder development goals. For communities, they can threaten livelihoods and identities, stall development, and restrict access to essential resources.
Understanding these drivers is essential for everyone. Peaceful, responsible and collaborative resource management creates more secure and resilient systems for all.
Together we can invest in peace and support communities globally
Our ApproachThe Global Centre for Peacebuilding and Business takes the principles of peacebuilding established by faith leaders globally to help transform and resolve conflicts around natural resources and their extraction.
We envision a world where conflicts are addressed through dialogue grounded in integrity, dignity, and mutual respect. Where institutions, communities, and leaders have the trust, capability, and relationships they need to build lasting peace.
Our mission is to bridge the gap between local communities and resource-based industries, central governments and global investors to ensure meaningful and long-term community engagement.
We do this by:
- Convening diverse actors across governments, communities, industry, and civil society
- Building dialogue strategies to reduce tensions and build trust
- Sharing insights and learning from global research, lived experience, and local knowledge
- Strengthening systems for peaceful cooperation, so resource development contributes to long-term stability
Our current programmes11
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Cornerstone Churches
The Cornerstone Churches, St Mary’s Warwick, St John’s Edinburgh, and Christ Church Winchester, play a central role in anchoring the GCPB’s work to build a movement in support of peacebuilding and reconciliation in conflict-affected communities, ensuring that peacebuilding is both locally rooted and globally connected.
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