12 Jul 2012

UN / PEACEBUILDING

The Security Council today turned its focus to an examination of the UN’s continuing efforts in peace-building in post-conflict situations. UNTV

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STORY: UN / PEACEBUILDING
TRT: 2.22
SOURCE: UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / SPANISH / NATS

DATELINE: 12 JULY 2012, NEW YORK

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FILE – 2011, UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS, NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters

12 JULY 2012, NEW YORK

2. Wide shot, Security Council Chamber full
3. Cutaway, delegates
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
"The international community has long recognized the challenging, multi-dimensional character of the transition from conflict to sustainable peace and development. Security Council mandates have grown in scope.  Our field missions now perform an unprecedented variety of tasks."
7. Cutaway, delegates
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
"We have much work ahead of us.  But if the UN family, Member States and the wider multilateral system work together in support of nationally owned strategies, we can have an impact far greater than any single entity could achieve on its own.  That is what we owe the peoples we serve, and we look forward to deepening this work together."
9. Cutaway, delegates
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Abulkalam Abdul Momen, Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations:
"It is essential that the countries on the agenda of the PBC do not relapse into conflict. Therefore, we must continue to maintain our focus on enhancing the PBC's impact in the filed. This impact should be ideally manifested through empowering national actors to own and lead the peacebuilding process; and through ensuring that the UN and other key actors are positioned to support this endeavour."
11. Cutaway, delegates
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Joachim von Ambsberg, Vice President and Head of Network, Operating Policy and Country Service, World Bank:
"The New Deal –and the WDR- calls for the international community to re-examine the way it engages in situations of fragility and conflict. Challenges facing fragile and conflict-affected countries cannot be resolved by short term or partial solutions in the absence of institutions that provide people with security, justice and jobs. Development assistance must support peace-and-state-building goals."
13. Cutaway, delegates 
14. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Maria Angela Holguin, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Colombia – President of the Security Council for the month of July:
"Deepening peacebuilding means modifying traditional attitudes and adjusting to countries and regions that are ever more autonomous in the international system, with shifting balances of power that invite the strengthening of dialogue and political solutions on issues that were habitually resolved through sanctions or confrontation."
15. Cutaway, delegate
16. Wide shot, Security Council

STORYLINE:

As the United Nations (UN) Council met today (12 July) to discuss the UN's peacebuilding architecture, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon noted the international community had long recognized the challenging, multi-dimensional character of the transition from conflict to sustainable peace and development.

Stating also that "we have much work ahead of us," Ban told the meeting, chaired by Foreign Minister María Ángela Holguín of Colombia -which holds the rotating Council presidency for this month- that if the UN family, member states and the wider multilateral system worked together in support of nationally-owned strategies, the impact would be "far greater than any single entity could achieve on its own".

Ambassador Abulkalam Abdul Momen of Bangladesh, who serves as Chair of the Peacebuilding Commission, said it was essential that countries on the Commission's agenda did not relapse into conflict, making it vital to continue to maintain the focus on enhancing the PBC's impact in the field.

Joachim von Ambsberg, of the World Bank said that the 'New Deal' agreed upon at lasts year's Conference on Aid Effectiveness in Japan and the World Development Report on Conflict, Security and Development called for the international community to re-examine the way it engaged in situations of fragility and conflict.

Saying that challenges faced by fragile and conflict-affected countries could not be resolved by partial solutions in the absence of institutions that provided people with security, justice and jobs, he said that "development assistance must support peace-and-state-building goals."

Holguin said that deepening peacebuilding meant modifying traditional attitudes, shifting balances of power that invite the strengthening of dialogue and political solutions on issues that were habitually resolved through sanctions or confrontation.

The cornerstone of the UN's peacebuilding architecture is the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC), which was set up in 2005 to help struggling States avoid slipping back into war and chaos by providing strategic advice and harnessing expertise and financing from around the world to aid with recovery projects.

The Commission currently has six post-conflict countries on its agenda – Burundi, Central African Republic (CAR), Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia and Sierra Leone – and its efforts are supported by the Peacebuilding Support Office. Countries can also avail themselves of financial assistance from the Peacebuilding Fund to jump-start rebuilding projects.

Filed under 01.03.00 - MAINTENANCE OF PEACE AND SECURITY .