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dc.contributor.authorSamuels, Kirsti*
dc.contributor.editorMenocal, Alina Rochaen
dc.date.accessioned2011-05-24T09:56:20Zen
dc.date.available2011-05-24T09:56:20Zen
dc.date.issued2005-11-01en
dc.identifier.issn0961-4524en
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/09614520500296278en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10546/130726en
dc.descriptionThe overarching challenge facing the growing number of international peace-building interventions is to achieve sustainable peace. This paper illustrates this proposition through a brief investigation of the situation in Timor-Leste as the UN mission withdraws at the five-year state-building mark, and in Haiti as a ninth UN mission is established. Adopting the view that participatory democratic governance will best ensure long-term peace, the paper maintains that to build sustainable peace requires transformation on three interrelated fronts: (a) transformation of the society from one that resorts to violence to one that resorts to political means to resolve conflict, requiring that the elite negotiate and that there should be widespread social dialogue and reconciliation; (b) reform of the governance framework to seek to ensure both that a negotiated governance arrangement between parties prevents future conflict and the adoption of basic democratic governance; and (c) the creation of meaningful institutions that will be sustainable after the mission leaves. These institutions cannot be imposed from outside, but must be bodies that re able to perform their core function and are committed to doing so.<p>This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis.</p>en
dc.format.extent9en
dc.format.mimetypePDFen
dc.language.isoEnglishen
dc.publisherOxfam GBen
dc.publisherRoutledgeen
dc.relation.urlhttp://policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk/publications/sustainability-and-peace-building-a-key-challenge-130726
dc.subjectConflict and disasters
dc.subjectApproach and methodology
dc.titleSustainability and peace building: a key challengeen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.identifier.eissn1364-9213en
dc.identifier.journalDevelopment in Practiceen
oxfam.signoff.statusFor public use – can be shared outside Oxfamen
oxfam.subject.countryHaitien
oxfam.subject.countryTimor-Lesteen
oxfam.subject.keywordConflict
oxfam.subject.keywordDevelopment methods
oxfam.subject.keywordDisasters
oxfam.subject.keywordDevelopment in Practice Journal
oxfam.subject.keywordDiP
prism.number6en
prism.volume15en
dc.year.issuedate2005en
dc.year.issuedate2005en


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