Improving International Support to Peace Processes
Key Workshop Recommendations, Geneva, 19-21 September 2011
Editor(s): Simon Mason, Erwin van Veen
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich; OECD-DAC INCAF
Publication Year: 2011
Practitioners, policy-makers and researchers involved in peace processes as mediators or as development or security professionals met in Geneva from 19 to 21 September 2011 to develop recommendations on how to improve international support to peace processes. The recommendations called for developing incentives to improve international cooperation. The report also highlights how international actors should conduct joint conflict analysis and agree on a joint support strategy whenever possible. International efforts must be long enough to be effective and be better linked to existing local and national conflict resolution mechanisms. To do this, experts must have broad skill sets and be deployed in pre-existing teams.