While there are exciting developments on sustaining peace issues, important questions remain: what can be done that has not been tried before? And, vitally, how to ensure national actors—states and societies—are steadfastly in the driver’s seat of action?
Tag: peacebuilding
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While North Korea’s missile program, the shift in US policy in the international arena, and the ongoing conflicts in Syria and Yemen occupied the attention of news media in 2017, Global Observatory readership was dominated by articles on the UN.
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Whether it is strategic analysis, conflict prevention, or simply prevention for sustaining peace in the pursuit of a surge in diplomacy for peace, none is achievable without adequate and predictable resources.
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The concept of sustaining peace has gained traction since it was introduced by the Advisory Group of Experts’ Review of the UN Peacebuilding Architecture in 2015.
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The UN Peacebuilding Commission is now examining where and how it can contribute to better management of natural resource development as part of its newly enhanced mandate to seek prevention of global conflict.
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During the General Assembly debate following the adoption of the resolution, most member states hailed the conceptual shift from peacebuilding to sustaining peace as transformative and forward-looking.
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One of the main reason positive peace is judged as better strategy for moving the prevention agenda forward is its universal applicability and the fact that it is not confined to conflict-ridden countries. More importantly, it calls on the responsibility of all the world’s citizens to act as its proactive agents.
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According to Saba Ismail, co-founder and Executive Director of Aware Girls—a youth-led organization working for women’s empowerment and gender equality in Pakistan—young women are in turn the group most excluded from peacebuilding.
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The UN’s new resolution on youth, peace, and security is not without its flaws in terms of guiding future policy. A potential major issue is that it sets the age range of youth as 18-24 years of age.
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Head of the UN High-Level Independent Panel on Peace Operations (HIPPO), José Ramos-Horta, discusses the challenges of peace operations reform.
