On 19 July, PHAP and ICVA organized an online event exploring how peace actors see their role in the nexus – including both what humanitarian and development actors can learn from peacebuilding and how peacebuilding efforts can better work towards shared outcomes with other actors in the nexus.

This fourth session of the learning stream on the "nexus," featured Scott Weber of Interpeace, who provided an overview of peacebuilding work in ongoing emergency contexts. Anna Chernova shared some of the experiences of Oxfam and how they have been integrating peacebuilding in their work as a multi-mandated organization. Rabia Nusrat of International Alert also shared her perspectives on how humanitarian organizations interact with peacebuilding in emergency contexts in Asia.

Follow-up responses

Read the written responses to the follow-up questions by the guest experts

Recommended resources

• Anderson, Louise Riis, “The HIPPO in the room: The pragmatic push-back from the UN peace bureaucracy against the militarization of UN peacekeeping”, International Affairs, February 2018.
• Bernstein, Tanja “Reforming the United Nations’ Peace and Security Pillar”, Centre for International Peace Operations, 2017.
• Buchanan, Elysia, "Hungry For Peace: Exploring the Links between Conflict and Hunger in South Sudan”, Oxfam, February 2018. 
• Baumann, Max-Otto. "Mission Impossible? Country-Level Coordination in the UN Development System", German Development Institute, 2018.
• Cliffe, Sara. “The SG’s report of UN Development System reform - 5 key ideas and 5 questions”, Centre on International Cooperation, 10 July 2017.
• Inclusive Peace and Transition Initiative, "Briefing Note: Preventing Violence through Inclusion", Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, January 2018.
• Jenks, Bruce and Jennifer Topping. “Financing the UN Development System: Pathways to Reposition for Agenda 2030,” Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation and United Nations MPTF Office, September 2017.
• Ross, Nick , “Civil Society’s Role in Monitoring and Verifying Peace Agreements: Seven Lessons from International Experiences,” Inclusive Peace and Transition Initiative, The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, January 2017. 
• United Nations, “Report of the High-Level Independent Panel on United Nations Peace Operations,” United Nations, 16 June 2015.
• United Nations, “The Challenge of Sustaining Peace: Report of the Advisory Group of Experts for the 2015 Review of the United Nations Peacebuilding Architecture,” United Nations, 25 June 2015.
• United Nations, “Preventing Conflict Transforming Justice Securing the Peace: A Global Study on the Implementation of the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325,” United Nations, 2015.

During the event additional resources were mentioned by speakers and participants. For recommended resources added on this topic, you can go here.

Target audience and event access

This event is relevant for anyone working in crisis response contexts seeking a stronger understanding of the humanitarian-development-peace nexus, but is particularly targeted to those working in international and national NGOs. The event is also open to the public.

Learning stream on the humanitarian-development-peace nexus

As part of the learning stream on the humanitarian-development-peace nexus, this event will be the fourth session of five live interactive online learning events that ICVA and PHAP will be organizing in the coming months. The purpose of these sessions is to provide NGOs and aid workers with a stronger understanding of the efforts to overcome the divide between the humanitarian, development, and – when appropriate – peace communities.