04.02.10 2020 Vision
Visioning the Future of the United Nations Peacebuilding Architecture
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This Working Paper is one of nine essays that examine the possible future role of the UN’s peacebuilding architecture. They were written as part of a project co-organized by the Centre for International Policy Studies at the University of Ottawa and the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs. All of the contributors to the project were asked to identify realistic but ambitious “stretch targets” for the Peacebuilding Commission and its associated bodies over the next five to ten years. The resulting Working Papers, including this one, seek to stimulate fresh thinking about the UN’s role in peacebuilding.
Despite the overwhelming impact of major global crises, the actual number of conflicts has been reduced significantly since the end of the cold war. At the same time too many post-conflict countries either fall back into violence or fail to get on the path to sustainable peace. More is now understood about the link between global security and the lack of economic and social investment. This combination of analyses has provided the impetus behind the development of peacebuilding as a field in its own right and the creation of new international architecture.
The Future of the Peacebuilding Architecture Project
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Despite the overwhelming impact of major global crises, the actual number of conflicts has been reduced significantly since the end of the cold war. At the same time too many post-conflict countries either fall back into violence or fail to get on the path to sustainable peace. More is now understood about the link between global security and the lack of economic and social investment. This combination of analyses has provided the impetus behind the development of peacebuilding as a field in its own right and the creation of new international architecture.
The Peacebuilding Architecture was launched following the UN World Summit, 2005. Its main goal is to bring increased strategy, resources and coherence to political, peacekeeping, development, humanitarian and human rights activities designed to keep countries on a sustainable road to peace.
To move forward the PBA must develop a more aggressive approach as follows:
- be more proactive in its relations with the Security Council, particularly in building understanding of the fundamental link between security and development;
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implement its mandate to mobilize predictable resources for peacebuilding;
take a longer view of peacebuilding which encompasses all aspects of the spectrum of peace activities, including peacemaking and preventive development investment in fragile states;
- seek to become the focal point in a global system defining and supporting peacebuilding policy, research and applied techniques;
- support the creation of UN mandated integrated peacebuilding missions, raising resources and bringing all the operational actors to the table in a supportive and coherent manner.
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