Background paper: Voices of civil society organizations on peacebuilding and statebuilding
March 2010
'Peacebuilding is a life time mission, rather than a project or a program' - this paper presents these and other observations made during the consultation of civil society organisations by Interpeace.
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This paper summarises the results of a consultation with 49 civil society organisations (including Conciliation Resources) by Interpeace. The emerging themes were then used as input into the International Dialogue meeting on Peacebuilding and statebuilding to be held in April 2010.
Central observations from the consultation were that peacebuilding and statebuilding: (1) are processes and process matters; (2) should be complementary and mutually reinforcing processes but tensions arise; and (3) need to be internally-led and externally-supported.
The report also includes annexes with a list of the participating organisations and the questions they were asked.