The International Dialogue on Peacebuilding and Statebuilding

There is increasing evidence that the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) will not be achieved in many fragile and conflict-affected countries without more coherent national and international actions on statebuilding and peacebuilding.

It is against this background that donor governments and partner countries committed to establishing an International Dialogue on Peacebuilding and Statebuilding at the Third High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Accra in 2008. The International Dialogue was formally launched on 4 December 2008 in Paris. Following up on the Accra commitments, the International Dialogue on Peacebuilding and Statebuilding offers a new opportunity for policy discussions aimed at improving national and international efforts in fragile and conflict-affected situations.

It will examine bottlenecks to and good practices in effective international support for peacebuilding and statebuilding in a range of countries. The Dialogue aims to reach consensus on a set of objectives and principles that should help focus national and international efforts at the country-level. These outcomes will be presented to the 4th High Level Forum in 2011 and feed into other relevant policy debates, including the forthcoming review of the MDGs.

So far, 40 donor governments, partner countries and international organisations have joined the International Dialogue on Peacebuilding and Statebuilding. The International Dialogue is currently co-chaired by the United Kingdom and the Democratic Republic of Congo, the OECD provides the Secretariat for the process.

Please find the concept note for the International Dialogue on Peacebuilding and Statebuilding in English and French here. This concept note was adopted at the 2nd preparatory meeting for the International Dialogue by participating countries and organisations, and with support from the OECD, on 18 March 2009 in Geneva.