Looking Back When Looking Forward: Peacebuilding Policy Approaches and Processes in Africa
Publisher: Journal of Peacebuilding & Development
Author(s): Walter Lotze and Cedric De Coning
Date: 2010
Topics: Assessment, Cooperation, Governance, Monitoring and Evaluation, Programming
The United Nations, through the creation of the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) and the Peacebuilding Fund (PBF), has attempted to institutionalise sustained attention to and the provision of the required resources in post-conflict situations in its work, and to foster greater levels of coherence and coordination, at the very least at the interagency level. Yet until the 2009 ‘Report of the Secretary-General on Peacebuilding in the Immediate Aftermath of Conflict’ (UN 2009), little guidance was available from within the UN system on peacebuilding policy approaches, prioritisation or sequencing due to the need to assess and harmonise the existing work of the various organs and agencies of the UN before issuing systemwide policy guidance.