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5895th Meeting (AM & PM)
At Peacemaking, Peacekeeping, Peacebuilding Crossroads, Road Taken Must Lead Rapidly to Nationally Owned, Sustainable Peace, Says Secretary-General
Emphasizing the critical importance of post-conflict peacebuilding in laying the foundation for sustainable peace and development after the scourge of war, the Security Council today invited Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to provide advice within 12 months to the relevant United Nations organs on how to best support national efforts to secure lasting peace more rapidly and effectively, including by scaling up coordination, civilian deployment and financing.
In a presidential statement that capped a daylong open debate on post-conflict peacebuilding, Karen Pierce of the United Kingdom, which had convened the session, said that the Council recognized that helping States to recover from conflict and build sustainable peace was a major challenge for the international community, and stressed the need to ensure that finances were available from the outset for recovery and peacebuilding activities to meet immediate needs and to lay a solid foundation for longer-term reconstruction and development.
Further, the Council stressed that an effective response required political, security, humanitarian and development activities to be integrated and coherent, including in the first phase of integrated mission planning. It encouraged the Secretary-General to advise the relevant United Nations organs on how best to take forward those issues, taking into consideration the views of the new Peacebuilding Commission, how to coordinate peacebuilding activities and encourage the mobilization and most effective use of resources for urgent peacebuilding needs.
Emphasizing the importance of national ownership and the primary responsibility of national authorities emerging from conflict for peacebuilding and sustainable development, the Council also expressed its intention to support those efforts and encouraged other actors to do the same. The Council encouraged efforts to address the urgent need for rapidly deployable civilian expertise and stressed that the critical role for such expertise was working in cooperation with national authorities to strengthen national capacities.

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