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UN SUSTAINING PEACE STRATEGY

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

AND STRATEGIC ADVISING:

THE GENDER PERSPECTIVE

Community engagement and renewed political commitment zed that some areas have made
strategic advising: effectiveness on the part of Member States to more progress than others and
through people oriented appro- important institutional changes reinforced the need for the Uni-
ach - case study using a gender and greater financial support. ted Nations, Member States and
perspective with military teams The 2000 United Nations Brahimi other institutions to work together
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engaged in a UN mission Report introduced a new genera- . In 2012, in the second progress
tion of international peace opera- report, the Secretary General re-
By Karla Pinhel Ribeiro tions, offering a more robust and ported that there were improve-
Marcia Andrade Braga coherent international response ments in: Leadership teams on
to violent conflicts. Although, the the ground; Mission evaluation,

In October 2014, the United concept of some elements of ope- planning and strategy; The provi-
Nations Secretary-General, Ban rations was too closely linked to a sion of international support and
Ki-moon appointed the Indepen- Western vision of technical stren- the development of national ca-
dent High Level Panel on Peaceke- gthening of institutions through the pacities and called for a more
eping Operations to examine the training and restructuring of the inclusive approach to peace-bu-
current status of UN peacekee- local police; Promotion of judicial ilding that facilitates broad natio-
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ping operations. The Panel was and penal reform; Providing tech- nal ownership of a lasting peace .
chaired by the former President nical assistance for democratic de- In addition, in 2010, the Secre-
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of Timor-Leste and the Nobel Pri- velopment , the Report responded tary-General published a Report
ze José Ramos-Horta and the re- to the challenges that the UN faced on the Participation of Women in
port is a continuation of the 2000 in the years prior to its publication. Peace-building, containing a Se-
Brahimi Report, which called for The first report in 2010 recogni- ven-Point Action Plan for Gen-

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