The Future of the UN Peacebuilding Commission
Formålet med prosjektet er å fremme kreativ nytenkning om mellom- og langsiktige roller for FNs fredsbyggingskommisjon (PBC), med spesiell vekt på hvordan dette organet kan bidra til ”bærekraftige” fredsbyggingstiltak og resultater.Forskningsprosjektet ble igangsatt av Centre for International Policy Studies (CIPS) ved universitetet i Ottawa, med støtte fra Carnegie Corporation of New York. NUPI ble invitert til å delta som institusjonell partner. Deltakere
Cedric H. de Coning
Eli Stamnes
Istedenfor å befatte seg med PBCs daglige operasjoner, tar prosjektet sikte på å stille mer langsiktige, strategiske spørsmål om hvilken rolle PBC bør ha om fem til ti år fra nå? Eller sagt på en annen måte: Hvor ambisiøse mål bør PBC kunne sette seg på mellomlang og lang sikt?
For å besvare disse spørsmålene vil prosjektet fokusere på PBCs bidrag til ”bærekraftig fredsbygging”. Problemet med bærekraft dreier seg ikke bare om behovet for kontinuerlig internasjonalt tilsyn med land i risikosonen, men også (og mer fundamentalt) om behovet for en varig fredsbyggingspolitikk og strategier som kan føre til holdbare resultater i vertslandene selv. Arbeidet med fredsbygging har lenge vært preget av svakheter ved begge disse aspektene ved bærekraft: Den internasjonale oppmerksomheten har vist seg å være flyktig, og resultatene av fredsbygging har ofte vært overflatiske. Om vi tenker oss PBC om fem eller ti år, vil et hovedspørsmål være hvordan Kommisjonen på en bedre måte kan håndtere problemet med bærekraft.
Internasjonalt anerkjente eksperter på fredsbygging vil bidra med analyser til prosjektet, og den enkelte bidragsyter vil bli bedt om å tenke kreativt rundt spørsmålene ovenfor.
Prosjektets nettsted: http://statebuilding.org/pbc.html
Finansiering
The project was co-organized by the Centre for International Policy Studies (CIPS) at the University of Ottawa and the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI), with the support of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, Norwegian Peacebuilding Centre (Noref), and the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade.
Publikasjoner
- Tschirgi, Necla (2010). Escaping Path Dependency: A Proposed Multi-Tiered Approach for the UN’s Peacebuilding Commission. NUPI-notat: . 24 sider. This paper argues that unless the Peacebuilding Commission adopts a ‘multi-tiered approach’ which is designed to better identify and respond to multiple peacebuilding challenges, it will remain a marginal actor in an already overcrowded peacebuilding field.
- Rettberg, Angelika (2010). The Private Sector, Peacebuilding, and Economic Recovery: A Challenge for the UNPBA. NUPI-notat: . 34 sider. The paper focus on two aspects of the private sector-peacebuilding relationship. First, it will examine difficulties related to promoting economic recovery by stimulating domestic and international private sector actors in conflict or post-conflict countries to produce and invest in order to reinvigorate economies. Second, the paper will discuss aspects directly related to engaging the private sector in peacebuilding tasks.
- McCandless, Erin (2010). In Pursuit of Peacebuilding for Perpetual Peace: Where the UN’s Peacebuilding Architecture Needs to Go. NUPI-notat: . 37 sider. 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.
- McAskie, Carolyn (2010). 2020 Vision: Visioning the Future of the United Nations Peacebuilding Architecture. NUPI-notat: . 29 sider. 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.
- de Coning, Cedric H. (2010). Clarity, Coherence and Context: Three Priorities for Sustainable Peacebuilding. NUPI-notat: . 31 sider. This paper will focus on three challenges that should inform the 2010 Review of the UN Peacebuilding Commission, namely: (1) developing the UN peacebuilding concept and operational model; (2) significantly stepping-up efforts to improve system-wide coherence; and (3) seriously implementing the principle of local ownership.
- Jenkins, Rob (2010). Re-engineering the UN Peacebuilding Architecture. NUPI-notat: . 37 sider. This paper argues that if the Peacebuilding Commission and the Peacebuilding Support Office are to avoid longterm institutional decline, they will, over the next five to ten years, need to position themselves to play new roles – in terms of mandate, resources, procedures, and partnerships.
- Stamnes, Eli (2010). Values, Context and Hybridity: How can the insights from the liberal peace critique literature be brought to bear on the practices of the UN Peacebuilding Architecture?. NUPI-notat: . 33 sider. The authors of the liberal peace critique literature argue that local ownership should mean taking the recipient societies’(rather than simply governments’ and elites’) understanding of the problems and solutions as the starting point of peacebuilding.
- Aning, Kwesi , Ernest Lartey (2010). Establishing the Future State of the Peacebuilding Commission: Perspectives on Africa. NUPI-notat: . 26 sider. The paper discusses the strategic role of the Peacebuilding Commission as a vital component in the attainment of the new peacebuilding vision and architecture and examines its potential implications for sustainable peace in Africa.
- Biersteker, Thomas, Oliver Jütersonke (2010). The Challenges of Institution Building: Prospects for the UN Peacebuilding Architecture. NUPI-notat: . 17 sider. The United Nations peacebuilding architecture is a new and relatively recent institutional creation. To address the issue of what role the UN peacebuilding architecture could realistically be expected to perform ten years from now, this paper briefly examine what different theories have to tell us about the origins of new institutions, their operational dynamics, their challenges, their constraints, their pathologies, and their realistic possibilities.