Reconstruction for Security, Sustainable Peace and Equity in MENA
Building for Peace proposes a fresh approach to reconstruction, development, and the transition to sustainable peace in conflict countries in the MENA region. It argues that because conflict has changed, the ways of assessing and planning interventions should also change, as must the way governments, development actors, and donors engage in those environments.
Building for Peace advocates a more bottom-up approach to complement the existing approach centered on physical reconstruction and central government institutions. It would start with taking into account the conditions that most impinge on individuals and their communities’ human security and then devising interventions to directly address those conditions. From there, it would work with more traditional state-building platforms to weave a broader and longer-term national reconstruction built on the realities of the communities affected.
