"The world stands today at the dawn of a decisive decade - a moment of consequence and peril, of profound pain and extraordinary possibility," President Biden
declared in April. These words came just two months into
Russia's war on Ukraine and during a time of concern for Western countries as
China flexed its muscular diplomacy in the Pacific Islands region. Biden's statement also sets the scene for the U.S. administration's new approach to peacebuilding, which aims to prevent conflict from erupting in fragile states by disrupting drivers of instability.