Publication Date: February 8, 2021

Publisher: Alliance for Peacebuilding

This Congressional Briefing Book provides the 117th Congress with peacebuilding and conflict prevention recommendations to help build peace and reduce global violence. It includes Seven Ways the 117th Congress Can Build Peace:

1. Fully Fund and Ensure Successful Implementation of Foreign Policy Priorities

2. Prioritize Peacebuilding in Foreign Assistance Appropriations

3. Robustly Resource and Ensure a Multi-Sectoral and Integrated COVID-19 Strategy

4. Reintroduce and Adopt the Youth, Peace, and Security Act

5. Rebalance and Right-size Counterterrorism and Preventing/Countering Violent Extremism Laws, Policies, and Programs

6. End Arms Sales to Countries Violating International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law

7. Ensure Robust Funding and Oversight of Foreign Assistance and Diplomacy in Priority Conflict-Affected and Fragile States and Regions