Peacebuilding
Peacebuilding is a complex, long-term endogenous process. It involves a range of measures targeted to both reduce the risk of lapsing or relapsing into violent conflict by addressing the deep-rooted, structural causes of conflict and strengthen national capacities at all levels for conflict management, with the aim of laying the foundation for sustainable peace. See also sections on peacekeeping, peace processes and conflict.
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Statebuilding and Peacebuilding in Situations of Conflict and Fragility
| Date added: | 27/10/2011 |
Author: Huma Haider
Institution: Conciliation Resources
Publication date: October 2010
Related categories: Governance, peace processes, comprehensive approach
Read full text here: http://www.gsdrc.org/docs/open/CON87.pdf
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This topic guide supplement provides a comprehensive overview of the literature on the statebuilding-peacebuilding interaction and serves as an introduction for addressing these processes in practice. In addition, the report provides links to additional documentation on specific topical areas, including donor and NGO approaches; understanding the dynamics of conflict and fragility; inclusive political settlements and peace processes; peace dispute resolution and capacities for peace; and, core state functions and public expectations.
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Ripples Into Waves: Locally Led Peacebuilding on a National Scale
| Date added: | 22/02/2011 |
Author: Carolyn Hayman
Institution: Peace Direct and Quaker United Nations Office
Publication Date: 2010
Keywords: Peacebuilding, Conflict
Read Full Text: http://www.insightonconflict.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Ripples-into-Waves-concept-paper.pdf
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This Paper discusses the role of local rather than international players in peacebuilding initiatives. The Paper uses four case studies of Mozambique, Somaliland, Kenya and Guyana which have all, more or less, been locally led. The Paper sets out steps to move from current practice of marginalising local peacebuilding efforts to making them a more central element of any strategy for managing conflict. The Paper is useful for conflic... Read More
Report of the Secretary-General on peacebuilding in the immediate aftermath of conflict
| Date added: | 23/02/2011 |
Author: Secretary-General
Institution: United Nations
Publication Date: 2009
Keywords: Peacebuilding, Conflict
Read Full Text Here: http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/4a4c6c3b2.html
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The report focuses on the challenges that post-conflict countries and the international community face in the immediate aftermath of conflict, defined as the first two years after the main conflict in a country has ended.
Reflecting on past peacebuilding experience, national ownership of the peacebuilding process is underscored as the key imperative to peacebuilding. The report also identifies the immediate post-conflict period as offering a window of opportunity to provide basic security, deliver peace dividends, sho... Read More
Peacebuilding Commission Working Group on Lessons Learned - Gender and Peacebuilding
| Date added: | 05/04/2011 |
Title: Peacebuilding Commission Working Group on Lessons Learned - Gender and Peacebuilding - Enhancing Women’s Participation
Author: UN Peacebuilding Support Office
Institution: UN Peacebuilding Commission
Publication Date: 29 January 2008
Keywords: Peacebuilding; Gender
Read Full Text Here: http://www.un.org/en/peacebuilding/pdf/doc_wgll/wgll_gender_pbc_summary.pdf
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This document is the Chair’s summary of a meeting of the Peacebuilding Commission’s (PBC) Working Group on Lessons Learned on Gender and Peacebuilding. The meeting was addressed by four experts, followed by discussions on gender and peacebuilding generally as well as speci... Read More
Peacebuilding and Organised Crime: The Cases of Kosovo and Liberia
| Date added: | 05/04/2011 |
Author: Nika Strazisar Teran
Institution: Swiss Peace
Publication Date: 2007
Keywords: Peacebuilding; Conflict; Kosovo
Read Full Text Here: http://www.swisspeace.ch/fileadmin/user_upload/Media/Publications/WP1_2007.pdf
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This Paper examines the impact of activities of organised crime on peacebuilding efforts in the cases of Kosovo and Liberia. The cases offer examples of how different types of organised crime can have devastating effects on peacebuilding. The Paper also briefly identifies tools available to the international community to fight against organised crime. The Paper is useful for those seeking to better understand the challenges of organised crime to peacebuilding generally, as w... Read More
Local Business, Local Peace: The Peacebuilding Potential of the Domestic Private Sector
| Date added: | 18/02/2011 |
Author: International Alert
Institution: International Alert
Publication Date: 2006
Keywords: Peacebuilding, Economic Recovery
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This extensive study highlights the potential of the domestic private sector to contribute to lasting peace as part of a collective effort. It makes the case that business is often tightly bound up in conflict dynamics, and is at the same time able to play an important role in addressing these at different levels.
The study sets out ideas and strategies as to how local businesses can play a more constructive role in conf... Read More
Community Engagement Approaches to Peacebuilding in Conflict-Affected and Fragile Contexts
| Date added: | 22/02/2011 |
Author: Huma Haider
Institution: Governance and Social Development Resource Centre (GSDRC)
Publication Date: 2009
Keywords: Peacebuilding, Community Engagement
Read Full Text Here: http://www.gsdrc.org/docs/open/EIRS8.pdf
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The impact of violent conflict and fragility on a country’s society, economy and political governance is devastating and encompassing. The ‘community’ has often proven to be resilient in such contexts, providing survival and coping mechanisms for insecurity and fragility. Experience has shown that even in areas of sheer desolation, social life and organisational systems can readily re-emerge within community networks. Growing attention has thus been paid in recent... Read More
Building Peace from the Ground Up
| Date added: | 05/04/2011 |
Institution: Religions for Peace - Conflict Transformation Working Group
Publication Date: 2002
Keywords: Peacebuilding; Community Engagement
Read Full Text Here: http://religionsforpeace.org/file/resources/reports/rpt-building-peace.pdf
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As conflict changes, so does the role that civil society can and must play in the process of peace-building. Wars fought within the confines of national boundaries leave no person untouched. Communities, families and individuals are forever changed. The process of healing and reconciliation requires collaboration between the UN, governments and civil society. Together they can address the complex array of social, political and economic factors that lead to conflict, and help rebuild the human relationships and commu... Read More
Building Peace Across Borders
| Date added: | 23/02/2011 |
Institution: Conciliation Resources Accord Series
Publication Date: 2010
Keywords: Peacebuilding, Community Engagement
Read Full Text Here: http://www.c-r.org/our-work/accord/pdfs/index.php (requires registration to read)
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Armed conflict does not respect political or territorial boundaries, but forms part of wider, regional conflict systems through dynamics that cross borders: refugee flows, ‘nomadic’ armed groups, narcotic or criminal networks, illicit trade in ‘blood diamonds’ or small arms or cross-border political, economic and social ties. This publication argues that there is a policy gap across borders and in borderlands which governance and diplomacy can struggle to reach. This is because conflict response strategi... Read More