United Nations: Web links and publications relating to conflict prevention and fragile states

Links:

• United Nations - Homepage
  • Report of the UN Secretary General In Larger Freedom: Towards Development, Security and Human Rights for All (March 2005)
  • Report of the UN Secretary General's High Level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change: A More Secure World: Our Shared Responsibility (December 2004)
• United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
  • Bureau for Development Policy (governance)
  • Oslo Governance Centre
  • Governance in Poor Countries
• United Nations High Commission for Refugees

• United Nations Economic and Social Development
• Departments of the UN Secretariat
• Department of Political Affairs
• United Nations Children's Fund
• United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
  • ReliefWeb -  Clearinghouse for information on humanitarian emergencies and natural disasters
• United Nations Office for Project Services
• World Food Programme

Publications:

Conflict Prevention

Understanding conflict prevention and peace-building:

• Conflict Analysis Framework (follow-up from the Joint UNDG-ECHA Working Group on Transition, 2004)
• Practical Guide to Multilateral Needs Assessment in Post-Conflict Situations - (UNDP, UN Development Group, World Bank 2004)
• An Operational Note on Transitional Results Matrices: Using Results-Based Frameworks in Fragile States (UNDG /World Bank 2005).
• Security Council Presidential Statements on peace-building, particularly the statement of 20 February 2001
• Security Council resolution 1325 on women, peace and security (2000)
• Prevention of Armed Confict (2000)
• The Millennium Declaration (2000)
• The Brahimi Report on UN Peace Operations (2000)
• UNHCR’s Operational Framework for Repatriation and Reintegration Activities in Post-Conflict Situations (1998)
• Supplement to an Agenda for Peace (1994)
• An Agenda for Peace. Preventive Diplomacy, Peacemaking and Peacekeeping (1992)
• UNIFEM

Political and governance issues:

• Democratic dialogue network
• UNDP dedicated website on civil society organisations (CSOs)
• UNHCR, UNESCO, UNDP, UNFPA, UNICEF and UNIFEM (1998) Best Practices in Peacebuilding and Non-Violent Conflict Resolution, Some Documented African Women’s Peace Initiatives
• UN Non-governmental Liaison Service
• Report of the Panel of Eminent Persons on United Nations regarding Civil Society Relations

Security system reform (including justice):

• UN Development Programme (UNDP) - Bureau for Development Policy: Democratic Governance Group, and its Oslo Governance Centre
  • Access to Justice – a practice note (2004)
  • Human Rights – a practice note (2005)
• UNDP Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery
  • Small Arms Unit 
• UN Department of Disarmament Affairs:
  • Gender Perspectives on Small Arms 
• UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations: Gender Resource Package for Peacekeeping Operations, Chapter 19, Gender and the Legal and Judicial System (2004)
• UN International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women: Framework for Gender Security Sector Reform
• Report of the UN Secretary-General on the rule of law and transitional justice in conflict and post-conflict societies (3 August 2004)
• UN Human Rights Committee - General Comment No. 31 on Article 2 of the Covenant: The Nature of the General Legal Obligation Imposed on States Parties to the Covenant 
• Report of the Conference on Gender Justice in Post-Conflict Situations, “Peace Needs Women and Women Need Peace” (2004)

• World Health Organisation: World report on violence and health (2002)

Environment, conflict and peace:

• UN Global Compact 

• UN Environment Programme - Post-Conflict Assessment Unit 

• United Nations Office for West Africa

Social drivers of conflict:

Fragile States:

Defining difficult partnerships or fragile states: