04.02.10 In Pursuit of Peacebuilding for Perpetual Peace
Where the UN’s Peacebuilding Architecture Needs to Go
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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.
This paper suggests that the new focus on the immediate aftermath of conflict supported by the UN’s Peacebuilding Architecture (PBA) crowds out important debates surrounding potential core drivers or building blocks of sustainable peace. The paper examines five core drivers of peace sustainability
, briefly assesses the PBA and its vision as laid out in the new Secretary General’s report on ‘Peacebuilding in the Immediate Aftermath of Conflict’, before discussing six key areas that fall under the two streams of knowledge development and management
and coordination, advising and capacity development
aimed at strengthening the PBA’s potential contributions to supporting national efforts, globally, to sustain peace.
The Future of the Peacebuilding Architecture Project
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This paper suggests that the new focus on the immediate aftermath of conflict supported by the UN’s Peacebuilding Architecture (PBA) crowds out important debates surrounding potential core drivers or building blocks of sustainable peace. Strengthened efforts are needed to conceptually and practically link this ‘early recovery’ period with longer-term peace. To respond to new and changing contexts and live up to its mandate to support peace sustainability, the PBA will need a robust strategy and structure that allows it the dynamism and flexibility needed to be responsive and effective, learning and incorporating lessons along the way. This will require the PBA to scale up in certain areas, acquiring critical skills and substantive knowledge to ensure its three bodies add value in peacebuilding contexts and better achieve their mandates. Only then will the PBA have the legitimacy and leverage it needs to play more strategic advisory and coordination functions, supporting the Secretary General in coordinating the system on matters of peacebuilding.
The paper examines five core drivers of peace sustainability
, briefly assesses the PBA and its vision as laid out in the new SG’s report on ‘Peacebuilding in the Immediate Aftermath of Conflict’, before discussing six key areas that fall under the two streams of knowledge development and management
and coordination
, advising and capacity development
aimed at strengthening the PBA’s potential contributions to supporting national efforts, globally, to sustain peace.
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