S/RES/2282 (2016)
the outbreak, escalation, continuation and recurrence of conflict, addressing root
causes, assisting parties to conflict to end hostilities, ensuring national
reconciliation, and moving towards recovery, reconstruction and deve lopment, and
emphasizing that sustaining peace is a shared task and responsibility that needs to be
fulfilled by the government and all other national stakeholders, and should flow
through all three pillars of the United Nations’ engagement at all stages o f conflict,
and in all its dimensions, and needs sustained international attention and assistance,
Reaffirming the primary responsibility of national governments and authorities
in identifying, driving and directing priorities, strategies and activities for sustaining
peace, and in this regard, emphasizing that inclusivity is key to advancing national
peacebuilding processes and objectives in order to ensure that the needs of all
segments of society are taken into account,
Stressing that civil society can play an important role in advancing efforts to
sustain peace,
Recalling General Assembly resolution A/70/1, entitled “Transforming our
world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, which adopted a
comprehensive, far-reaching and people-centred set of universal and transformative
Sustainable Development Goals and targets,
Emphasizing the importance of a comprehensive approach to sustaining peace,
particularly through the prevention of conflict and addressing its root causes,
strengthening the rule of law at the international and national levels, and promoting
sustained and sustainable economic growth, poverty eradication, social
development, sustainable development, national reconciliation and unity including
through inclusive dialogue and mediation, access to justice and transitional justice,
accountability, good governance, democracy, accountable institutions, gender
equality and respect for, and protection of, human rights and funda mental freedoms,
Recognizing that peacebuilding is an inherently political process aimed at
preventing the outbreak, escalation, recurrence or continuation of conflict, and
further recognizing that peacebuilding encompasses a wide range of political,
developmental, and human rights programmes and mechanisms,
Recognizing that an integrated and coherent approach among relevant political,
security and developmental actors, within and outside of the United Nations system,
consistent with their respective mandates, and the Charter of the United Nations, is
critical to sustaining peace, and essential for improving respect for human rights,
advancing gender equality, empowering women and youth, strengthening the rule of
law, eradicating poverty, building institutions, and advancing economic
development in conflict-affected countries,
Welcoming the work of the Peacebuilding Commission as a dedicated
intergovernmental advisory body to bring a strategic approach and coherence to
international peacebuilding efforts, and recognizing the valuable work done in all its
configurations and meetings,
Recognizing the need for United Nations peacebuilding efforts to have
adequate, predictable and sustained financing in order to effectively assist countries
to sustain peace and prevent the outbreak, escalation, continuation and recurrence o f
conflict,
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