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This area of work integrates peacebuilding, statebuilding and security so as to ensure coherent responses to address the challenges of insecurity, state fragility and conflict. The objective is to support policy makers, operational staff and developing countries by providing them with a greater understanding of how the three areas of engagement link together. It also sets out to provide policy and programming guidance to strengthen effective and legitimate state functions, prevent conflict and promote sustainable peace and security (see also: Whole Of Government-Approaches in Fragile States).
Guidance on peacebuilding and statebuilding
Substantive work on peacebuilding and statebuilding has been carried out over previous years by the DAC Network on Conflict, Peace and Development Co-operation (CPDC) and the Fragile States Group (FSG), which came together to form INCAF. Among key products that have been produced over the past decade are the DAC guidance on Helping Prevent Violent Conflict (2001) and Concepts and Dilemmas of State Building in Fragile Situations: From Fragility to Resilience (2008). Building on these efforts, the focus for 2009/10 is to improve the understanding of peacebuilding and state building, and to produce practical guidance on how international actors can best support these efforts.
Key outputs include:
- good practices for international support to the negotiation and implementation of peace agreements and negotiated settlements;
- programming notes on international support to key state functions and recommendations on prioritisation and sequencing;
- improved knowledge on joint assessments, analysis, planning and evaluation in situations of conflict and fragility.
Security
This work stream focuses on the reality that there can be no development without security. It concentrates particularly on the dynamics of armed violence and questions of security, governance and security system reform (SSR). There is increasing awareness of the overlap between development needs and security concerns for the effective prevention of violent conflict and the long-term elimination of poverty. Security is important to the poor and other vulnerable groups, especially women and children, because bad policing, weak justice and penal systems and corrupt militaries mean that they suffer disproportionately from crime, insecurity and fear. Having produced seminal policy work on security system reform and armed violence reduction, the focus for 2009/2010 is on developing state-of-the-art outputs of use to both policy experts and headquarters, as well as security and military experts on the ground.
These products include the following:
- develop armed violence reduction progamming notes for operations on the ground, with a focus on urban violence, gangs, militia, youth,etc.;
- develop a better understanding of the role of non-state security actors on the ground;
- take forward work on sequencing in order to bridge the security gap when the peacekeepers leave;
- develop SSR work relating to gender and monitoring and evaluation;
- take forward work on civil-military relations in the spirit of a whole-of-government approach (with support from NATO);
- work on behavioural change and norm-setting through an intensive and innovative dissemination and outreach strategy at headquarhers and on the ground.
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