The UN Peacebuilding Commission: A Chance to Build Peace More Effectively

Set up during 2006 with peacebuilding as its sole objective, the UN Peacebuilding Commission has the potential to use its intergovernmental voice to focus attention on the factors that could drive a renewal of conflict. In this light, Alert submitted recommendations in late 2006 on how the PBC could most effectively orientate its short and long-term support to the process of improving security and sustaining peace, for men and women, in Burundi. More widely, this publication also looks at the main challenges for the PBC and how it should focus its activities. The recommendations aim also to draw the PBC’s attention to the “where” and “how” of its engagement. This is because the way it engages with national stakeholders will be a significant determinant of progress towards peace.