GENEVA, Oct. 15 -- Sierra Leone's president told the opening of the Geneva Peace Forum on Monday that the world spends too much repairing the damage of wars and too little stopping them, and proposed a "Geneva Commitment to Prevention."

Julius Maada Bio, speaking at the Geneva International Conference Centre under the forum's motto "Choose Peace," urged governments to dedicate a progressively higher share of international assistance to conflict prevention and to set up transparent reporting that tracks early warnings and what was done about them, CGTN reported.

The forum runs from October 12 to 15, builds on twelve years of Geneva Peace Week in a new format and is organised by the Geneva Peacebuilding Platform with support from the Swis...