President Donald Trump holds the charter during a signing ceremony for his Board of Peace initiative at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2026 in Davos-Klosters, Congress Centre, Switzerland, 22 January © World Economic Forum / Valeriano Di Domenico (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, cropped from the original)

Trump’s new Board of Peace plan challenges UN peace roles well beyond Gaza

The BPP Executive Director, Dr Brian Brivati, argues that most of the international legal questions raised by “Trump’s Board of Peace” (BoP) and the related National Committee for the Administration of Gaza (NCAG), flow from the BoP Charter, which purports to supply authority for Gaza’s transitional governance while also gesturing toward a far broader conflict-resolution role.

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