Peacebuilding and Policy Resources

December 2011 - This document provides a brief overview of the eight typical phases of an Interpeace peacebuilding process.

December 2010 - This report is a contribution to a broader UN-led reflection and wider consultation about the type, quality, expertise and availability of civilian experts to support the immediate capacity development needs of countries emerging from conflict. This document presents the results of a civil society survey and summarises the responses of 34 civil society organisations.

December 2010 - The purpose of the 2010 Interpeace Partners Forum was to identify perspectives and discuss strategic approaches on how to connect statebuilding and peacebuilding processes. Elections are an example of a commonly used statebuilding tool that can make or break the peace in fragile societies. This document summarises the discussion.

Author: Koenraad Van Brabant

2010 - This document in the 'What is Peacebuilding?' series explains the concept of social capital in greater detail. By doing so it draws on the works of Pierre Bourdieu and Robert Putnam.

Author: Koenraad Van Brabant

2010 - This document in the 'What is Peacebuilding' series sheds light on the relationship between statebuilding and peacebuilding. The document stresses the differences and similarities of these two processes and how they can complement each other.

Author: Koenraad Van Brabant

2010 - This document in the 'What is Peacebuilding?' series focuses on the concepts of 'Do no harm' and conflict sensitivity.

Author: Koenraad Van Brabant

2010 - This document in the 'What is Peacebuilding?' series examines different perspectives on peacebuilding that as a consequence have different implications for the peacebuilding practice.

Author: Koenraad Van Brabant

2010 - This document in the 'Peacebuilding How?' series examines the value of systems analysis over 'traditional' frameworks for conflict analysis. It provides a detailed outline of the steps in systems analysis in conflict.

Author: Koenraad Van Brabant

2010 - This document in the 'Peacebuilding How?' series takes a closer look at the concept of local ownership. It tries to fill the analytically vague concept of local ownership with meaning and analyses some of its key implications.

Author: Koenraad Van Brabant

2010 - This document in the 'Peacebuildiing How?' series examines a key issue in peace practice. It looks at the concepts of 'external' and 'internal' actors or of 'insiders and 'outsiders' and suggests the establishment of collaboration and effective peace partnerships.

Author: Koenraad Van Brabant

2010 - This document in the 'Peacebuilding How?' series takes a closer look at the criteria that are currently being used to assess and evaluate peacebuilding efforts. The report takes a closer look at the five criteria produced by the Reflecting on Peace Practice (RPP) Programme and the criteria developed by the OECD Development Assistance Committee.

Author: Koenraad Van Brabant

2010 - This document in the 'Peacebuilding How' series visualizes the major dimensions that need to be considered when designing or assessing a peacebuilding intervention. The central question is whether the peacebuilding intervention is 'strategic', which requires a credible argumentation linking it to an analysis of the conflict dynamics.

Author: Koenraad Van Brabant

Author: Koenraad Van Brabant

2010 - This document in the 'Peacebuilding How?' series summarizes a number of broad critiques on contemporary peacebuilding. The document looks at peacebuilding at a generalized level and therefore does not constitute a critique of every individual peacebuilding effort.

June 2010 - This report provides a summary of the discussions that took place at a joint workshop co-hosted by Interpeace and the Peacebuilding and Stabilization Unit of the Government of the Netherlands on peacemaking, peacebuiling and development on 8 June 2010 in Geneva, Switzerland.

December 2009 - The purpose of the 2009 Interpeace Partners Forum was to provide a space for reflection on the questions and challenges related to peacebuilding and statebuilding. Approximately 40 people from different sectors (governments, UN, EU, NGOs) came together to discuss the question how groups that have an influence in making or breaking the peace can be integrated into the peacebuilding process. This document summarises the discussion.

November 2008 - The purpose of the 2008 Interpeace Partners Forum was to provide a space for reflection on the questions and challenges related to the nexus between peacebuilding and statebuilding. About 35 people from different sectors, including governments, UN, EU and NGOs came together at the Partners Forum. This document summarises the discussion that was stimulated by case study presentations on certain challengs of state- and peacebuilding in Guinea-Bissau, Liberia and the Somali Region.

Author: Koenraad Van Brabant

November 2008 - The purpose of this paper is to clarify how Interpeace's programmatic work relates to the question of peacebuilding and statebuilding.

Author: Koenraad Van Brabant

June 2006 - This report synthesizes insights into the nexus 'human (in)security and urban spaces' that emerged from six rapid 'case studies'. The towns and cities examined in this report are: Bissau (Guinea-Bissau), Bujumbura (Burundi), Burao (Somaliland), Galcayo (Puntland and South-Central Somalia), Guatemala City (Guatemala) and Mogadishu (South-Central Somalia).