Trump’s Board of Peace to settle conflicts around the world
Countries on US President Donald Trump’s newly created Peace Board could gain an indefinite seat if they contribute $1 billion to the budget within a year, according to draft charter published by the Times of Israel.
The Israeli newspaper published the full draft on Sunday.
The 13 episodes also show that the U.S. government wants to greatly expand the board’s authority beyond its focus on pacifying and rebuilding the Gaza Strip.
According to the draft, the Council will deal with crises and conflicts around the world.
So critics are already talking about a possible rivalry with the United Nations, which Trump has repeatedly criticized as dysfunctional.
This critique is echoed in the preface, which states that “lasting peace requires pragmatic commonsense solutions and the courage to depart from approaches and institutions that often fail.”
The document also emphasizes the need for “a more agile and effective international peacebuilding body.”
Under the current concept, the board will focus primarily on the Gaza conflict.
The body is part of the second phase of Trump’s peace plan for the Gaza Strip, which calls for a permanent end to the war and the disarmament of the Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas, which Hamas rejects. The body will oversee the new transitional government on the coastline.
Recently, many heads of state and prime ministers have been invited by Trump to join the so-called Peace Board.
Invitations were sent to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Argentine President Javier Milei and Hungarian Prime Minister Orbán.
The draft states that Trump will chair the council and only the heads of state and prime ministers he invites can become members. Regular membership expires after three years unless countries contribute $1 billion to the council’s budget.
Changes to the document may be decided by a two-thirds majority of the members, with the additional approval of the president. It is also stated that the Peace Board will be dissolved at a time “deemed necessary or appropriate by the president.”
