Over two and a half years have passed since the first peacebuilding report wa...

Over two and a half years have passed since the first peacebuilding report was commissioned. That report was commissioned as a result of concerns about the support provided by the international community, including particularly the UN, to countries emerging from conflict. Many of the issues that it identified were not new. But the process gave fresh impetus to the effort to resolve familiar problems of fragmentation, weak leadership, lack of strategy and sluggish deployment of civilian experts and finance. The same is true for the women and peacebuilding report. Many of the issues in this good report are also not new. The problem has been delivery, not ignorance of the issues.