India gets re-elected to UN Peacebuilding Commission for 2025-2026

By R Anil Kumar

• The Peace Building commission, established in 2005, was tasked with advising the UN General Assembly and the Security Council on issues of peacebuilding and sustaining peace

• India has been a member of the Peacebuilding Commission since its inception in December 2005

• As a founding member and major contributor to @UNPeacekeeping, India is committed to continuing its engagement with the PBC to work towards global peace and stability

• The PBC is composed of 31 Member States, elected from the General Assembly, the Security Council, and the Economic and Social Council. The top financial contributing countries and the top troop-contributing countries to the United Nations system are also members

UNITED NATIONS, New York, November 29. India on Thursday, November 28, was re-elected to the UN Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) for the 2025-2026 term, continuing its active role in global peace efforts.

The announcement was made in a post on X by the Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations, which read: “India has been re-elected to the UN Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) for 2025-2026. As a founding member and major contributor to @UNPeacekeeping, India is committed to continuing its engagement with the PBC to work towards global peace and stability.”

The Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) is an intergovernmental advisory body that supports peace efforts in conflict-affected countries and adds capacity to the international community’s broader peace agenda. India has been a member of the Peacebuilding Commission since its inception in December 2005.

The commission, established in 2005, was tasked with advising the UN General Assembly and the Security Council on issues of peacebuilding and sustaining peace.

As per their official website, the Commission aims to promote an integrated, strategic, and coherent approach to peacebuilding. It acts as a bridge between the principal organs and relevant UN entities by sharing advice on peacebuilding needs and priorities and convenes all relevant actors within and outside the United Nations.

The Commission’s cross-cutting and thematic engagements occur through country-specific and regional discussions, allowing nations to share experiences and best practices in peacebuilding.

It fosters coordinated approaches to support nationally-led peacebuilding efforts across the UN system, with a particular emphasis on mission transitions and conflict-affected areas.

To ensure collaboration among humanitarian, development, and peace actors, the Commission regularly invites briefers from the field, including representatives from peacekeeping operations, special political missions, United Nations Country Teams, and other UN political presences to participate in its country- and region-specific meetings.

The Commission is mandated to bring together all relevant actors to marshal resources and to advise on and propose integrated strategies for post-conflict peacebuilding and recovery; to focus attention on the reconstruction and institution-building efforts necessary for recovery from conflict and to support the development of integrated strategies in order to lay the foundation for sustainable development.

It is also mandated to provide recommendations and information to improve the coordination of all relevant actors within and outside the United Nations, to develop best practices, to help to ensure predictable financing for early recovery activities and to extend the period of attention given by the international community to post-conflict recovery, the Commission said.

The Commission also focuses on promoting an integrated, strategic and coherent approach to peacebuilding, noting that security, development and human rights are closely interlinked and mutually reinforcing; serving a bridging role among the principal organs and relevant entities of the United Nations by sharing advice on peacebuilding needs and priorities, in line with the respective competencies and responsibilities of these bodies.

India is among the largest contributors of uniformed personnel to UN Peacekeeping. It currently deploys about 6,000 military and police personnel to UN operations in Abyei, the Central African Republic, Cyprus, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Lebanon, the Middle East, Somalia, South Sudan, and Western Sahara.

Nearly 180 Indian peacekeepers have made the supreme sacrifice in the line of duty, the highest number by far from any troop-contributing country.