On February 19, 2026, a new international organization, the Board of Peace, which was established a month ago, in January, on the sidelines of the economic summit in Davos at the initiative of the US President, held its first meeting in Washington. Back then, the Charter of the Board was signed by 19 countries from the Middle East, South America, Eastern Europe and Asia, and Trump noted that the Board would be "one of the most influential bodies ever created in the history of the world." Currently, it unites nearly 30 member states.
The February meeting of the Board of Peace was mainly devoted to stabilisation in the Gaza Strip. Donald Trump announced a $7 billion financial and economic assistance package prepared by member states and added that the US would contribute another $10 billion. The US President also presented a plan to deploy international stabilization forces in the Gaza Strip, to be led by the United States, and announced the Board of Peace's intentions to build a large military base for 5,000 troops in the Strip.
At first glance, this step generally corresponds to UN Security Council Resolution No. 2803 of November 17, 2025, supporting Trump's Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict. However, the reaction of the international community to the establishment of the Board of Peace was controversial and ambiguous, not without reason. The position of the global actors and the leading European countries turned out to be restrained to sceptical for many reasons, especially given the scale of the goals and objectives of the newly created Board and its statutory norms.
What are the motives, sense and purpose of this US initiative? Should the creation of the Board of Peace be seen as the beginning of large-scale reformation of the system of international institutions and the current architecture of interstate relations in general?
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