Connect-World - Global Themes - Conflict and Peace - Post-Conflict Recovery and Reconstruction: Experience and Lessons Learnt

Over the last decade, humanitarian aid donors have placed increasing importance on providing support to post-conflict situations, including recovery and peacebuilding. The followinfg provides some links to the lessons learnt from these interventions by various international donors.

UN Peacebuilding Commission The Commission was set up to make sure that states do not fall back into conflict and to pave the way towards sustainable development. Its purpose is to advise on priorities for the stabilisation and recovery of post-conflict countries, to bring together international political, donor and military efforts and, where relevant, highlight any gaps which threaten to undermine peacebuilding.

Joint Report on Transition Issues (UNDG/ECHA, 2004) - This report was compiled by the Joint Working Group on Transition Issues, which was established by The United Nations Development Group (UNDG) and the Executive Committee on Humanitarian Assistance (ECHA).

OECD

The OECD Development Assistance Committee AC Network on Conflict, Peace and Development Co-operation (CPDC) is the international forum that brings together conflict prevention and peace-building experts from bilateral and multilateral development agencies, including from the UN system, EC, IMF and World Bank. These experts meet to define and develop common approaches in support of peace.

The Fragile States Group is a forum that brings together experts on governance, conflict prevention and reconstruction from bilateral and multilateral development co-operation agencies to facilitate co-ordination and share good practice to enhance development effectiveness in ‘fragile states’.

Service Delivery in Fragile States: Advancing Donor Practice DAC Fragile States Group, OECD

How Remittances Sustain Livelihoods in War, Crises and Transitions to Peace International Peace Academy(2006). Conflicts, crises and disasters increase the number and categories of vulnerable people whose survival depends on assistance from outside sources. It has become increasingly apparent that migrant remittances have played a major role in helping individuals and communities affected by conflicts and disasters. This report explores the impact of remittances destined for countries or populations living in contexts of conflict, war-to- peace transitions, and/or crises.

Monitoring Trends: The Changing Role of the Military in Humanitarian Action (Source: ODI - Humanitarian Policy Group, Mar 2006). The research shows that while humanitarians and military actors have long shared the same operational environments, increasing support for military involvement in assistance and protection strategies is challenging the operational capacities and security approaches of the humanitarian system in new ways.

Agricultural Rehabilitation: Mapping The Linkages Between Humanitarian Relief, Social Protection and Development (Source: ODI - Humanitarian Policy Group, Apr 2006). This paper addresses the question of how to support the livelihoods of rural people who have been affected by conflict. Specifically, it focuses on how international actors might move beyond conventional seeds and tools interventions to address vulnerability and support the agricultural component of rural livelihoods in countries emerging from conflict.

Linking Relief, Rehabilitation and Development (EC, 2001)
This document examines the grey zones that arise in various types of crisis when humanitarian policy and development co-ordination programmes differ.

External Nation-Building vs. Endogenous Nation-Forming - A Development Policy Perspective (BMZ, 2004) - Broadening understanding of nation building processes and setting them in a systematic framework, the authors use case studies from Africa, the Middle East and the Balkans to illustrate the diverse aspects of the theme. The final section demonstrates how nation-building processes can be supported through the application of intelligent and sensitive policies by external actors.

Online Research Bank (ORB) is a collection of searchable databases containing bibliographies and summaries of research focused on the lives of adults and children in Northern Ireland.

Conflict and Politics in Northern Ireland (1968 to the Present) This site contains information and source material on the Troubles and politics in Northern Ireland from 1968 to the present.

Centre for the Study of Conflict (CSC) University of Ulster (1977-2000)
Research into aspects of the Northern Ireland conflict was conducted in the Centre between 1977 and 2000. The Centre's web pages provide a range of information including extracts from the publications produced by the Centre.

INCORE (International Conflict Research) was set up in 1993 by the University of Ulster and the United Nations University to undertake research and policy work that is useful to the resolution of ethnic, political and religious conflicts.

Institute for Conflict Research The Institute for Conflict Research is an independent research organisation which specialises in working on issues related to conflict, social transformation and social justice.