Peace Building

1. Peace-Building for Sustainable
Development

2.  Peace-building is a term
describing outside
interventions that are
designed to prevent the
start or resumption of
violent conflict within a
nation/community by
creating a sustainable
peace

3. Peace-building activities address the root
causes or potential causes of violence,
create a societal expectation for peaceful
conflict resolution and stabilize society
politically and socioeconomically

4. Peace-building, peace-making and
peace-keeping
 Peace-making involves stopping an ongoing
conflict
 Peace-building happens before a conflict starts
or once it ends
 Peace-keeping prevents the resumption of
conflict; it does not address the underlying
causes of violence or work to create societal
change, as peace-building does. It also differs
from peace-building in that it only occurs after
conflict ends, not before it begins

5. Components of peace-building
 Create an environment that supports durable
peace
 Reconcile opponents
 Prevent conflict from reoccurring
 Integrate civil societies
 Create rule of law mechanisms
 Address underlying structural and societal
issues

6. Peace-building must address
 Functional Structures

7.  Emotional Conditions

8.  Social Psychology

9.  Social Stability

10.  Rule of Law

11.  Ethics and cultural
sensitivities

12. Three dimensions of peace-building
1st
dimension
• Taking away weapons
• Re-integrating former combatants into civilian
society

13. 2nd
dimension
• Rebuilding basic facilities, transportation and communication
networks, utilities
• Developing rule of law and public administration
• Building educational and health infrastructure
• Providing technical and capacity-building assistance for
institutions
• Creating legitimate (democratic ,accountable) state
institutions

14. 3rd
dimension
• Trauma counselling
• Community dialogue
• Building bridges between different communities
• Increasing human rights
• Gender empowerment
• Raising environmental awareness
• Promoting economic development
• Developing a civil society and private sector that can represent diverse
interests and challenge the state peacefully

15. Group discussion
 Group 1: Discuss different ways of Re-
integrating former combatants into civilian
society.
 Group2: What is the best form of education
for survivors?
 Group 3: Suggest ways peace can be
maintained in communities in Nigeria

16. key to building a long-term sustainable
peace.
 Respected local figures
 Public dimension
 Story-telling and airing of grievances
 Emphasis on relationships
 Reliance on local resources

17.  sustainable development is the development
that meets the needs of the present, without
compromising the ability of future
generations to meet their own needs

18. RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PEACE
AND DEVELOPMENT

19.  Sustainable development, if achieved,
contributes decisively to the dissipation, if not
the elimination, of several primary causes of
conflict

20.  If a sustainable development strategy has
been successful in terms of the reduction of
poverty, the levelling of social inequalities,
and the optimum allocation of scarce
resources, then certainly many of the
situations that exacerbate conflict between
different groups, communities, and
nationalities will be avoided.

21. Discussions + Questions