Annual report 2025

In 2025 levels of violent conflict continued to rise and the global aid system faced significant upheaval. In this context, supporting the work of peacebuilders around the world was more important than ever. Throughout the year, International Alert worked with communities affected by conflict and local partners to support efforts to prevent or end violence.

This year’s annual report and accounts show how Alert brought people together during a time of deepening divides.

How we worked

We implemented 55 projects across 32 countries and territories with offices in 16 countries, working through partnerships in a further nine countries and delivering research and training in a further seven countries.

Our work focused on the five objectives laid out in our 2024-2030 strategy:

1. Our peacebuilding work has remained impactful, relevant and robust, despite the need to adapt to new challenges and changing conflict contexts.
2. Our partnerships are equitable, effective, deep, diverse, and fundamental to our peacebuilding approach.
3. We have sought ways to encourage all actors in fragile and conflict-affected settings – not just peacebuilders – to contribute to peaceful outcomes.
4. We have advocated for policies and practices that support peace at all levels.
5. We have strengthened and improved the ways in which we operate as an organisation.

In each of our projects we worked closely with local partners and ensured a deep understanding of complex conflict dynamics and contexts. We facilitated inclusive community dialogue, ensuring that often marginalised groups such as women and young people could actively contribute to shaping solutions. We promoted best practice and knowledge-sharing by convening civil society and learning platforms. Our approach focused on ensuring that peacebuilding is led and informed by the people most directly affected by conflict.

Our impact

Some examples of the impact of our work include:

• training more than 600 organisations in conflict sensitivity; 
• supporting 32 civil society organisations in Lebanon to reach people as part of an emergency conflict response; 
• establishing community groups in the DRC to manage conflict, which helped to resolve 167 community-level conflicts; 
• supporting journalists from across divides in the Caucasus to promote dialogue over division; and 
• supporting eight local government councils in Nigeria to set up community-police accountability mechanisms in a process that engaged more than 35,000 people. 

We expanded our partnerships and work beyond the traditional peacebuilding sector, recognising the need for more integrated responses to ongoing and interconnected crises. This included programmes that linked peacebuilding with climate action, as well as conflict-sensitivity and peace integration support for private sector actors, humanitarian organisations and other policymakers and practitioners operating in fragile and conflict-affected settings.

Our teams continued to show that peace is possible, despite significant and complex challenges. Read the full report for a more detailed look at our work and achievements in 2025.