The Rockefeller Brothers Fund aims at fostering long-term peace and prosperity in Europe, with a focus on successful post-communist and post-conflict transitions in the Balkans. It supports healthy democratic processes, regional myth debunking initiatives, and the development of a vibrant civil society and indigenous philanthropy in the region. The RBF is dedicated to ensuring the transformation into transparent, accountable, and responsive democracies, emphasizing ethnic, gender, age, cultural, and racial diversity, and promoting pluralistic, inclusive societies.
The Peacebuilding Program aims to tackle the complex and interconnected threats to global peace and security, such as economic inequality, distrust between states and citizens, environmental destruction, and pandemics. Recognizing that contemporary conflicts are deepening due to various factors including geopolitical rivalries and authoritarianism, the program seeks multifaceted approaches to create sustainable peace. This includes nonviolent confrontation, challenging political and economic structures, and fostering a new generation of leaders and movements for conflict transformation. There's a strong emphasis on policy analysis, collaborative networks, and defending civil society's role in ending conflict. The program's strategies focus on developing peacebuilding policies, supporting collaborative approaches for shared security, strengthening constituencies for conflict transformation, and defending civil society and human rights. Areas of specific interest include conflicts in the Middle East and South Asia, with particular focus on Afghanistan and Israel/Palestine, and efforts to reduce geopolitical tensions, such as between the United States and Iran, alongside addressing forced migration and violence dynamics.