Will the first International Peacebuilding Week make a difference?

Something is stirring in the politics of peace.

After years in which conflict response has felt like firefighting, urgent, reactive, never quite enough, the policy world is suddenly moving fast.

This week brought the World Bank's Fragility Forum, which is held every two years, and with it, a refreshed strategy for the World Bank to work in fragile and conflict-affected settings.

And the Bank is not alone.

In late April, the EU adopted Council conclusions that framed so-called fragility as one of the defining challenges of our time and commits the EU to work differently to better prevent and tackle the causes of crisis.

We are recording just before the forum opens and ahead of the first-ever International Peacebuilding Week.

This is a new annual moment for peace that has been mandated by the UN Security Council and the General Assembly.

The timing is no accident.

From Gaza to Sudan, Ukraine to Myanmar, the DRC and beyond, today's conflicts are exposing the limits of crisis response alone.

Humanitarian needs are climbing, consensus phrase, and the money for prevention stays far too thin.

This needed change.

We treat peacebuilding as a technical craft, but the real questions are political.

Who gets to define peace? Who sits at the table? And how do we finance prevention when the system rewards emergency response? That is the test for International Peacebuilding Week.

Can it become for peace what Climate Week has become for climate action, or will it stay inside a specialist bubble? To explore these questions, I'm joined by four guests with very different vantage points.

Elisabeth Spehar, UN Assistant Secretary-General for Peacebuilding and Peace Support; Michael Keating, Executive Director of the European Institute of Peace and former UN Special Representative of the Secretary General in many conflict-affected countries; Habib Ur Rehman Mayar, Deputy General Secretary of the G7+ Secretariat; and last but not least, Marisa Vasquez, Head of Policy of ODI's Global Risk and Resilience team.

Thank you all for joining us.