Transparency International Defence and Security’s contribution to the 2025 Peacebuilding Architecture Review (PBAR)
Good governance and strong institutions are vital in preventing corruption and the violence and insecurity that often follow. In the security and defence sectors, tackling corruption is not just about saving money—it is a crucial strategy for preventing, managing, and resolving conflict.
Despite their clear connection, anti-corruption efforts and peacebuilding remain siloed. As a result, the UN’s peacebuilding architecture—consisting in its core of the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC), the Peacebuilding Fund (PBF) and the Peacebuilding Support Office (PBSO)—is yet to define its role in addressing security sector corruption within peacebuilding and conflict prevention.
The 2025 review of the UN’s peacebuilding architecture (PBAR) presents a key opportunity to close this gap. Across three areas of change, a written submission by Transparency International Defence and Security to the review highlights how the UN’s peacebuilding institutions and the wider UN systems can improve good governance and anti-corruption in security and defence institutions to advance their wider peacebuilding and conflict prevention objectives.
