QUNO & the U.N. Peacebuilding Commission
| | Local Rwandans relax by the river. QUNO has worked to promote
sustainable peace in Africa's Great Lakes region. Credit: Aletia Dundas |
While all areas of QUNO’s work are seen as important in building peaceful institutions, countries and individuals, the programme on the Peacebuilding Commission is concerned specifically with linking Quaker peace work on the ground to the peacebuilding work of the United Nations.
The United Nations Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) was created in 2006 to support the transition of countries from post-conflict to sustainable peace. The PBC, an advisory body of the Security Council and the General Assembly, aims to marshal resources at the disposal of the international community to advise and propose integrated strategies for post-conflict recovery.
The substantive work of the PBC takes place in country-specific meetings. These meetings serve as a forum to coordinate interaction between the concerned country, countries with post-conflict experience, providers of military personnel and civilian police to UN missions, and major financial contributors. The first two countries that the PBC is providing advice on are Burundi and Sierra Leone.
In seeking to bring the broad resources of the UN system to bear on the needs of countries emerging from violent conflict and to seek to guarantee that peace processes are not reversed, country strategies will focus on issues related to the following four broad areas of concern:
- Security and Public Order
- Justice and Reconciliation
- Governance and Participation
- Social and Economic Well-being
QUNO is engaged in both New York and Geneva with UN Peacebuilding Commission issues. In New York, QUNO has been working with other NGOs in seeking to ensure that civil society organizations are well-integrated into the work of the Peacebuilding Commission. In Geneva, QUNO and a number of other Geneva-based organizations have been seeking to develop a Geneva “platform” to successfully add the contribution of a broad range of Geneva agencies to the work of the PBC. In both New York and Geneva, staff are in active contact with Quaker peacebuilding groups in Burundi and elsewhere to bring the voice and experience of relevant Quaker work to the attention of the Peacebuilding Commission.
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The links below provide more information about the UN Peacebuilding Commission and Quakers:
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