Peacebuilding and statebuilding
The core concern of peacebuilding is putting in place processes that help end violence, address conflict and repair relationships. The focus of statebuilding is enhancing governance, state capacity and state-society relationships. While by its nature statebuilding can be a conflict inducing process, there is a clear connection between peacebuilding and statebuilding.
Our publication Renegotiating the political settlement in war-to-peace transitions (pdf download only) explores the ‘political settlement’ as a potentially crucial though little understood element linking the two processes.
The International Dialogue on Peacebuilding and Statebuilding
Conciliation Resources is part of the Civil Society Advisory Group to the International Dialogue on Peacebuilding and Statebuilding. The International Dialogue is an intergovernmental initiative that was established as an outcome of the High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Accra in September 2008. It is jointly chaired by a partner and donor country (currently East Timor and the UK).
The purpose of the International Dialogue is to examine good practices and key bottlenecks in international support for peacebuilding and statebuilding. It also aims to generate consensus around fundamental priorities and objectives in these areas.
As part of this process, Conciliation Resources is making the case that peacebuilding approaches are key – a focus on inclusion and participation can lead to more effective and responsive institutions capable of addressing conflict.
So far we have contributed to:
- The International Dialogue on Peacebuidling and Statebuilding in Monrovia, Liberia in June 2011. Read the Civil Society Input Documents
- Working Group on Political Dialogue meeting in Paris, France, December 2010.
- The International Dialogue on Peacebuilding and Statebuilding in Dili, Timor Leste in April 2010. Read the Civil Society Organisation Paper and the Dili Declaration.
For more information please contact Sophie Haspeslagh.
