This document discusses peace-building and its relationship to sustainable development. It defines peace-building as outside interventions designed to prevent conflict by creating sustainable peace. Peace-building addresses root causes of violence, creates expectations for peaceful conflict resolution, and stabilizes societies politically and economically. It differs from peace-making, which stops ongoing conflicts, and peace-keeping, which only prevents conflict resumption. Peace-building must address functional structures, emotional conditions, social psychology, social stability, rule of law, and cultural sensitivities. It involves disarming combatants, rebuilding infrastructure, developing rule of law and institutions, counseling, community dialogue, and promoting economic development and civil society. Sustainable development contributes to reducing poverty, inequalities,
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
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
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.