Business and International Crimes
Peace Operations
Peace Implementation
Peace Implementation Network
The Peace Implementation Network (PIN) explores the policies and practices of
international assistance in support of the implementation of peace agreements.
The objectives of PIN are to strengthen international assistance in post-conflict
situations through dialogue on the international experiences of the past decade.
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Policy Advocacy and Facilitation
in Haiti
Late in 1997, PICCR was asked by the International Peace
Academy (IPA) to participate in a series of Consultations amongst Haitians concerning
the political impasse in Haiti. PICCR's experience of facilitation in conflict
situations was one source upon which IPA sought to draw in order to provide a
perspective to the Haitian participants in their attempts to grapple with a political
crisis which had stalled economic development in that country. <more>.
Gendering
Human Security: From Marginalisation to the Integration of Women
in Peace-Building
During violent conflicts women are victims and survivors,
but also fighters, leaders and activists. Yet, too often the memory of women's
agency in conflict is short. Societies emerging from conflict may experience a
redefinition of the role and status of women in society, resulting in the marginalisation
or isolation of women from key peace-building processes. The resources of knowledge
and capacity that women have developed during conflict are either lost or neglected.
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UN reform
Command
from the Saddle
A Peace Implementation Network Forum on the Role of
the Special Representative of the Secretary-General: Shaping the UN's role in
Peace Implementation
On 8 - 9 July 1998, the role and function of the Special
Representative of
the Secretary-General (SRSG) in United Nations' peace-building
missions was
examined at a special forum organised by Fafo. Former and present
SRSGs attended the Roundtable. The report Command from the Saddle - Managing United
Nations Peace Operations summarise the discussions and recomandatiuons fromt eh
meeting.
Conjurers hat
Financing
United Nations Peace-building in Operations Directed by Special Representatives
of the Secretary-General
In The Conjurers' Hat, authors Dirk Salmons and Dennis
Dijkzeul examine the financing of ten missions led by SRSGs during the period
1992-2001. The report also describes the internal reform processes related to
the financing of peacekeeping and peace-building, including the impact of the
Panel on UN Peace Operations in 2000 and the different voluntary funding mechanisms
that have arisen over the years in support of peace operations.
Conflict Prevention
Friends Indeed; The United Nations,
"Groups of Friends" and the Resolution of Conflict
This
project involve comparative analysis of the instances in which Friends' groups
(or other analogous groups such as the Core Group on East Timor) have been employed
to further United Nations peacemaking. It will also involve the development of
observations regarding the circumstances within which groups of Friends may be
most usefully engaged within a peace process and how they may be structured to
do so. The project is undertaken by Visiting Fellow
Teresa Whitfield at the
Center on International Cooperation at New York University, and is supported by
Fafo, among others.
Knowledge for what
A paper for discussion of Policy Research on Conflict Prevention and Peace-building
Policy research in the areas of conflict prevention and peace-building has
come to engage an increasing number of independent research institutions, and
national and international public agencies. An impressive array of policy studies
has been produced, generating a number of perspectives and prescriptions, all
intended to improve our understanding of, and action in relation to, violent conflict.
Yet, there is no clear understanding of how knowledge, policy-making and practice
have interacted to date and how they might be made to interact more effectively
in the future.