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The United Nations Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) was launched in June 2006 amid much fanfare and measured optimism. It was conceived as an institutional framework through which a greater degree of coherence would be achieved in peacebuilding and post-conflict reconstruction. On 10 March 2008, the UN Assistant Secretary-General for Peace-building Support, Carolyn McAskie, briefed the Peace and Security Council of the African Union, reiterating the significance of the PBC to Africa. Indeed, the first four countries on the PBC's agenda are African -- Burundi, Sierra Leone, Guinea-Bissau, and Central African Republic -- and seven African countries serve as members of the PBC's organisational committee. Adapted from the source document.

In the aftermath of the Cold War the hope for a more stable and just international order rapidly dissolved underneath the pressure of internecine conflicts raging on all continents. The Rwanda and Srebrenica genocides especially proved that promoting peace is a particularly fraught challenge in the face of intra-state conflict and sub-national groups that boldy confront nation-states. Tim Murithi investigates the role that ethics plays in promoting and consolidating peacebuilding, synthesizing the fields of moral philosophy and international relations through an analysis of the ethics of negotiation, mediation, forgiveness, and reconciliation. In its exploration of the extent to which ethical concerns influence and inform peacebuilding, this book contributes to a growing body of literature on ethics and international relations that enable students, scholars, and practitioners to contextualize their understanding of a principled peacebuilding.

chapter Introduction -- chapter 1 Peacebuilding as process: United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 -- chapter 2 Overcoming the harm of polarization -- chapter 3 Recognition and inclusion -- chapter 4 Justice and compassion -- chapter 5 Memory and truth -- chapter 6 Reconciliation and difference.

This volume elucidates some key ideas and practices underlying women?s peacebuilding, highlighting positive examples of their contribution to peacebuilding in conflict zones and in societies pursuing transitional justice.