Secondly, peacebuilding is complex.

Rather, it is only the first step in the long, hard peacebuilding process.

11. Notes that the consolidation of the peace building process remains a significant challenge that requires a concerted national effort to guarantee the irreversibility of the peace process

13. Notes that the consolidation of the peace building process remains a significant challenge that requires a concerted national effort to guarantee the irreversibility of the peace process

We remain committed to providing resources, in a monitored and coordinated manner, to all aspects of the peacebuilding process.

We believe that such a commission would channel the peacebuilding processes by establishing close links between peacebuilding, political agreements, and short , medium and long term security and development.

Post conflict peacebuilding is an essential part of the process of restoring genuine peace and stability in countries and regions emerging from conflict.

I would have hoped that we could have now agreed to make the new Peacebuilding Commission operational.

Women remain marginalized in the process of peacebuilding and post conflict reconstruction.

He has, quite rightly, made the re establishment of confidence between the parties a sine qua non for the relaunching of the peace process.

Afghanistan has made great progress in recent years in the peacebuilding and reconstruction process.

Thus, from its inception, a mission must factor regional synergies into the peacebuilding process.

10. Emphasizes that the Commission shall work in cooperation with national or transitional authorities, where possible, in the country under consideration with a view to ensuring national ownership of the peacebuilding process

The Philippines will continue to contribute to the work of strengthening the gender perspective in all stages of the peacebuilding process.

Hence, it is imperative to ensure close coordination between those two principal organs throughout the whole process of peacebuilding.

With regard to the work of the Peacebuilding Commission, he emphasized the importance of mine action, particularly mine clearance, which could be essential in the initial stage of the peacebuilding process.

Another important consideration is that the expertise of the Economic and Social Council in the social and economic arenas should be deployed at an early stage of the peacebuilding process in order to optimize the outcome of peacebuilding efforts in the long term perspective.

Cooperation and coordination among international participants in the peacebuilding process is indispensable to achieving those objectives.

Peace, Not Process

Peacebuilding

We see the process of peacebuilding as an effort to internally improve the conditions for peace by strengthening a society's capacity to manage its conflicts without violence.

State building and peacebuilding in Afghanistan are also part of the process of addressing global challenges such as international terrorism.

The pace and nature of the peacebuilding process have to be in line with the culture of those concerned and the context within which it takes place.

The adequate financing of and meaningful implementation of disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) programmes is an essential component of peacebuilding.

Without a strategy, the whole process of post conflict peacebuilding will proceed in an ad hoc fashion, with no clear guidance or direction.

The Security Council stresses the need to ensure adequate and timely financing for peacebuilding priorities at all stages of the peace process, and stresses the need for sustained financial investment in peacebuilding over the medium to longer term period of recovery.

Recognizing with satisfaction that the United Nations has played a successful and important role in the peace process, and believing that the Organization should continue to provide assistance to Tajikistan in post conflict peace building,

Peace Process or Real Peace?

Local stakeholders need to acquire a deep sense of ownership of the peacebuilding process in order to achieve a stable and progressive future for their society.

Accordingly, the build up of the proposed peace support operation is likely to continue until October 2005, when the military component would be fully deployed.

Peacebuilding operations aim to create peace.

It had therefore been decided to establish a peacebuilding commission and a peacebuilding support office by the end of the current year.

Many emphasized the necessity to make progress in establishing the Peacebuilding Commission and the Human Rights Council and in moving management reform forward.

There is still a huge gap when it comes to making women part of peacebuilding in the public and official sense.

Post conflict peacebuilding must evolve into an economic and political process that simultaneously creates viable economies and democratic institutions.

The choice of post conflict peacebuilding as the subject of this debate is an indication of the significance that your delegation and the Council attach to that critical aspect of the peace process.

In that regard, Australia has warmly welcomed the recent successful end to United Nations peacekeeping in Timor Leste and the creation of a successor mission with a strong peacebuilding mandate.

Peace is a process.

Peacebuilding Support Unit

Peacebuilding Commission

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Similarly, it is increasingly recognized that focusing narrowly on country level peacebuilding efforts is unlikely to yield significant changes in peacebuilding outcomes, especially in the regions where conflict has interlocking political, security and economic dynamics.

Furthermore, the pace of fundraising for peacebuilding programmes is often slow and is not in keeping with the urgency felt on the ground.

That would ensure that long after the peacekeepers depart, the process of rebuilding shattered societies and lives continues.

The proposed peacebuilding commission that is addressed in the reform process of the United Nations can potentially contribute to meeting the objectives of this Conference.