Business and International Crimes
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.
Launched in March 1998, PIN facilitates thematic meetings, or Forums, which involve peace implementation practitioners, meaning decision makers, policy makers, planners, and managers with experience of the implementation of international assistance in post-conflict situations. These practitioners include foreign ministry officials, representatives of bilateral aid agencies, officials of multilateral organisations (IMF, UN, World Bank, etc), and project managers from both donor and recipient countries. The participants, normally fifteen - twenty people per Forum, are invited to compare their experiences of the implementation of international assistance in peace implementation or peace-building. Based on this discussion, participants are asked to suggest options for best practice in future peace implementation situations. The aim is to help strengthen international multilateral action by exploring practical options for making international assistance more effective, more responsive and more appropriate.
PIN's Forums facilitate discussions of the policies and practices of implementation from a comparative "lessons-learned" perspective. PIN forums are empirically driven, involving donors, implementers and recipients in a dialogue based on operational experience. PIN's value - for policy and implementation, as well as for research - lies in the fact that PIN is centred around practitioners. By providing a neutral venue for the exchange of lessons learned amongst the participants, PIN Forums place practitioners at the forefront of the learning process. Similarly, each Forum seeks to promote best practices and the possibility of organisational learning by engaging the key relevant people and institutions in the development and preparation of the Forum. Selected researchers with an interest in Forum topics are also invited to the Forums as observers.
2002 is the final year of the Peace Implementation Network, Phase 1. Two Forums will be organised in this year.
PIN - Forums 1998 - 2000
Forum I:
The Special Representative of the Secretary-General: Shaping the UN's Role in Peace Implementation, 8-9 July 1998, New York
Forum II:
Public Sector Finance in Post-conflict Situations, April 1999, Washington D.C.
Forum III:
Microdisarmament: The Politics and Practices of Small Arms and Light Weapons Disarmament, 21 and 22 September 1999, Montreal
Making Return Sustainable: Coordinating Multilateral, Regional, National
and International Institutions in Post-Conflict Return Processes, December
7 - 8, 2000, Brussels
Information Needs for Planning Post-Conflict Reconstruction, April 24-25 2003, Oslo