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A UN Peacebuilding Commission: what could be its core functions?
08/07/2005 By Peter Wallensteen
This comment focuses on the conflict preventive role of the future Peacebuilding Commission. For it to be effective it would need to have an independent analytical capacity.
Such a capacity would make it possible for the Commission to bring awareness, commitment and resources to situations that may otherwise develop into severe crises.
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Bio author: Peter Wallensteen
Co-director of the Uppsala Conflict Data Program and Coordinator of The Special Program on Implementing Targeted Sanctions. His current research includes Conditions for Conflict Prevention, Trends in Conflict, Peace and Security, Targeted Sanctions and the UN System.
