A/79/334 persons have of a conflict and its consequences make it essential that policymakers include them in peacebuilding processes; any sustainable peace process must ensure the integration of their human rights and interests in the agreed outcome. 10 It is critical for peacebuilding and durable solutions planning efforts to include a multitrack and multi-stakeholder approach and emphasize the prevention and non-recurrence of conflict and displacement, in particular in contexts characterized by protrac ted displacement. Peace processes that do not adequately address the rights violations suffered by internally displaced persons and the root causes of displacement risk an eventual recurrence of conflict. 5. Peace agreements should be aimed at addressing the specific needs, rights and legitimate interests of internally displaced persons and reflect a human rights-based approach to supporting durable solutions that ensures the participation of internally displaced persons in peace processes and peacebuilding. That entails the engagement of internally displaced persons in all their diversity, including on the basis of age, gender, disability, minority status, Indigenous identity, sexual orientation and gender identity. 6. In the present report, the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons reviews approaches to ensuring the integration of internal displacement considerations in peacebuilding processes, by examining modalities for enabling the participation of internally displaced persons in peacebuilding, fostering durable solutions through peace agreements and addressing the root causes of violence and displacement, as well as by assessing the respective roles and responsibilities of national and local authorities and the international community. She highlights good practices and delivers recommendations aimed at furthering the integration of internal displacement into peace processes, as means of ensuring sustainable peace and the non-recurrence of conflict, human rights violations and forced displacement. 7. To inform the present report, the Special Rapporteur issued a call for input and held two consultations with representatives of academic and United Nations organizations. She thanks all partners and stakeholders who participated in the consultations and provided written submissions. 11 II. Legal and policy frameworks 8. In the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement, it is established that, regardless of their location and the phase of their displacement, internally displaced persons should not be discriminated against in the enjoyment of their rights to associate freely, participate equally in community affairs or vote and participate in governmental and public affairs and that they should enjoy the right to access to the means necessary to exercise those rights (see principles 22 and 29), which implies their right to equal participation in peace processes. 9. Under the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement, the primary duty and responsibility is placed on the competent authorities to establish conditions and provide the means to allow internally displaced persons to return voluntarily, in safety and with dignity, to their places of residence or to resettle voluntarily elsewhere in __________________ 10 11 4/24 Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs and the Humanitarian Policy Group of the Overseas Development Institute, “Achieving durable solutions by including displacement -affected communities in peacebuilding”, joint submission to the High-level Panel on Internal Displacement, May 2020. Unless otherwise indicated, all submissions, except where confidentiality has been explicitly requested, have been or will be posted on the web page of the Special Rapporteur’s call for input, available at www.ohchr.org/en/calls-for-input/2024/call-input-peacebuilding-context-internaldisplacement. 24-15773