Peacebuilding: What is in a name?

Global Governance

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 35-58

  Barnett, Michael ^a   Hunjoon, Kim ^a   O'Donnell, Madalene ^b   Sitea, Laura ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations

^c UNITED NATIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

Peacebuilding; Peacekeeping; Postconflict reconstruction; United Nations

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947309405     PISSN: 10752846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/19426720-01301004     Document Type: Review

References (28)

1. UN, Agenda for Peace, Report of the Secretary-General, para. 21. Available at http://www.un.org/peace/reports/peace_operations/.
2. Paul Collier et al., Breaking the Conflict Trap: Civil War and Development Policy (New York: Oxford University Press and World Bank, 2003);
3. Charles T. Call and Susan E. Cook, "On Democratization and Peacebuilding," Global Governance 9, no. 2 (2003): 233-234.
4. Stephen Krasner and Carlos Pascual, "Addressing State Failure," Foreign Affairs, July/August 2005: 153-163.
5. This is a selective, rather than a comprehensive review. We have drawn from available data on official development assistance (ODA), emergency assistance, and assessed contributions to peacekeeping operations in ten postconflict countries (see Appendix 2, p. 57) to identify a list of the key bilateral and multilateral organizations involved in financing or implementing international "peacebuilding" efforts. Appendix 3 (p. 58) lists the actors included in the survey: the United Nations, World Bank, IMF, European Commission, United States, France, Germany, Japan, UK, and Canada. The list of the dozens of documents we reviewed and that inform our analysis are available from Michael Barnett.
6. We also detect moments when tightly networked agencies attempt to distinguish themselves and protect their turf by developing distinctive definitions of peacebuilding and alternative concepts.
7. Agenda for Peace, para. 21.
8. "Report of the Secretary-General on the work of the Organization, Supplement to an Agenda for Peace: Position Paper of the Secretary-General on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the United Nations," A/50/60-S/1995/1, 3 January 1995.
9. Charles Call, Institutionalizing Peace: A Review of Postconflict Peacebuilding Issues for DPA, January 2005, unpublished paper on file with Barnett, pp. 3-4.
10. "UN, Report of the Panel on United Nations Peace Operations," October 2000. Accessed at http://www.un.org/peace/reports/peace_operations/.
11. "Statement by the President of the Security Council," 20 February 2001, S/PRST/2001/5.
12. Cited from Call, Institutionalizing Peace: A Review of Postconflict Peacebuilding Issues for DPA, unpublished paper on file with Barnett, p. 4.
13. See Appendix 1 (p. 56) for a list of different areas, activities, and descriptions. Table 2 identifies the prioritization of areas of involvement by organizations in their official documentation.
14. "Role of the UNDP in Crisis and Post-Conflict Situation" (DP/2001/4).
15. Susan L. Woodward, "Peace Operations: the Civilian Dimension, Accounting for UNDP and the UN Specialized Agencies," Discussion Paper, Copenhagen Seminar on Civilian Capacity for Crisis Management, 8-9 June 2004.
16. This tracks broadly with what the Secretary-General calls the "stages of recovery," including early and medium-term recovery issues and the transition to development. "Explanatory Note of the Secretary-General," 19 April 2005.
17. Anthony Giddens, Sociology, 2nd ed. (New York: Polity Press, 1993), p. 309.
18. For related arguments, see Roland Paris, At War's End (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004);
19. Robert Orr, "The United States as Nation Builder," in Robert Orr, ed., Winning the Peace: An American Strategy for Post-Conflict Reconstruction (Washington, DC: CSIC Press, 2004), p. 11;
20. and Jens Meierhenrich, "Forming States After Failure," in Robert Rotberg, ed., When States Fail (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003), pp. 155-156.
21. Roland Paris, At War's End;
22. Frances Fukuyama, International Order and State-building (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003).
23. Roland Paris, At War's End;
24. Jens Meierhenrich, "Forming States After Failure," in Robert Rotberg, ed., When States Fail, pp. 155-156.
25. Joseph Strayer, On the Medieval Origins of the Modern State (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1973), p. 5.
26. Cited in Jens Meierhenrich, "Forming States After Failure," in Robert Rotberg, ed., When States Fail, pp. 155-156.
27. World Bank, Post-Conflict Fund, A Trust Fund for Assisting Conflict-Affected Countries, August 2004, available at http://lnwebl8. worldbank.org/ESSD/sdvext.nsf/67ByDocName/PCFAnnualReport2004/$FILE/ Annual+Report+PCF+04 (lowresolution).pdf.
28. USAID Budget, Transition Initiatives, 2006, available at http://www.usaid.gov/policy/budget/cbj2006/ti.html.