Key to successfully dealing with intractable conflict problems is the ability to simultaneously mobilize the full range of available peacebuilding capabilities described in the Intractable Conflict Knowledge Base. This requires taking a "complex operations" approach to peacebuilding, which goes far beyond the traditional notion of simply bringing leaders of warring factions together at the "peace table." This program, from the University of Calgary, is one of those seeking to implement this much broader and, we think, much more effective approach.
The Peacebuilding, Development and Security Program (PDSP) is housed in the Centre for Military and Strategic Studies (CMSS) at the University of Calgary and represents a partnership between CMSS and the Institute of World Affairs in Washington, D.C.
Born out of the challenges which have risen in the contemporary international environment in devising strategies to end civil wars and build lasting and sustainable peace, the PDSP's mission includes the fostering of both practitioner-focused and scholarly research along with interagency and civil-military dialogue in order to improve the practice, and ultimately the effectiveness, of international assistance to conflict-affected countries. This will involve examining the utility and potential hazards of existing approaches and advancing the understanding of effective linkages between relief, peacebuilding, development and security. Our work aims to identify models where multiple, diverse and overlapping civilian and military streams of international assistance actually "add up" to substantial long-term positive impacts in the target countries.
For more information see the CMSS Website.
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