Work package 3: Policies and Strategies

Objectives

Identify best practices and mechanisms in promoting peace while responding to demands for accountability and human rights protection
Assess coercive strategies in addressing security threats and challenges
Assess DDR and its contribution to peacebuilding, as well as effects on promotion of human rights
Analyse to what extent the development of rule of law promotes peacebuilding
Assess the practical and theoretical connections between political, legal, social, welfare and cultural institutions as envisaged in the peacebuilding model
Analyse to what extent international norms pertaining to just and durable peace are diffused in contemporary peace support operations

Guidance paper (September 2008):
Chandra Lekha Sriram, Johanna Hermann, Olga Martin-Ortega, Evaluating and comparing peacebuilding strategies and transitional justice.
Working Paper No. 1 (May 2009)
International peer reviewed articles on the legal accountability of states and IOs in post-conflict peacebuilding scheduled for February 2010.
Policy-oriented documents with recommendations for states, international organisations and donors on general peacebuilding strategies scheduled for the autumn of 2010.

Uppdaterad: 2009-09-30

Work package leader

Chandra Lekha Sriram, professor
University of East London
Centre on Human Rights in Conflict
C.Sriram@uel.ac.uk

Lunds universitet Box 117, 221 00 Lund. Telefon: 046-222 00 00