According to official sources, India has been invited by US President Donald Trump to join the newly formed Council of Peace for Gaza. Although the administration initially focused on Gaza’s redevelopment, it is expected to have a broader mandate to address global conflicts. | Photo credit: Haseeb Alwazeer
Trump’s Peace Council is being projected by Washington as a new international body to usher in peace and stability in Gaza and beyond, prompting speculation that it could also respond to other global conflicts.
Original mandate
Originally, the new body would be charged with overseeing governance and coordinating financing for Gaza’s redevelopment as the strip was devastated during two years of Israel’s military offensive.
The US president unveiled the sign as part of the second phase of a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. In October last year, Israel and Hamas agreed to Trump’s peace plan.
India invited
The US president has invited India to be part of the new body, the sources said.
The White House has already announced that the Peace Council will play a vital role in fulfilling Trump’s 20-point plan to provide strategic oversight, mobilize international resources and ensure accountability as “Gaza transitions from conflict to peace and development.”
Twenty-point plan
The 20-point plan includes making Gaza a deradicalized terror-free zone that poses no threat to its neighbors and its redevelopment for the benefit of the people of the Gaza Strip.
The White House announced last week that it would form a founding board to realize the Board of Peace’s vision.
Main members
Executive committee members include US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, US Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff, businessman and Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner and World Bank President Ajay Banga.
The other two members of the committee are Marc Rowan, the CEO of New York-based private equity firm Apollo Global Management, and Robert Gabriel, a U.S. national security adviser.
The executive council will oversee another administrative group, the National Committee for the Governance of Gaza (NCAG).
Broader ambition
While the administration must be committed to ensuring peace and development in Gaza, a letter from Trump to Argentine President Javier Milei has clearly indicated that the ambition of the new international body will be broader.
Milei posted the letter on social media.
In the letter, Trump said the administration would seek to consolidate peace in the Middle East and would also take a “bold new approach to resolving global conflicts.”
Management statute
“The Financial Times,” citing the board’s charter, said it is “an international organization whose mission is to promote stability, restore reliable and lawful governance and ensure lasting peace in areas affected or threatened by conflict.”
“Sustainable peace requires pragmatic judgment, common sense solutions and the courage to depart from approaches and institutions that have too often failed,” the newspaper quoted from the charter.
Leadership structure
The top level of the administration will consist “exclusively” of heads of state led by Trump, the newspaper quoted a White House official as saying.
Published on January 18, 2026
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