It is time to stop fighting violence with violence, to stop investing trillions in war and pennies in peace.

It’s time to #MoveTheMoney.

According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), in 2015 global military expenditure was USD1.6 trillion.

But gender equality and peace remain drastically under-funded.

Only two per cent of aid to fragile states in 2012-2013, for example, targeted gender equality as a principal objective, according to the Global Study on UN Security Council Resolution 1325.