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der-sensitive Peace-building the impact of peacekeeping ope- cal community and representatives
with regard to conflict resolu- rations, to ensure that the mission of civil society revealed that: it is
tion, Representation of women in does no harm and to devise better difficult to interact with UN per-
post-conflict governance, the rule protection strategies.” This com- sonnel who seemed remote and
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of law and economic recovery . mitment is important during the distant; Communication is often
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Finally, during these years, so peace operation, since the manda- frustrated by language barriers; Pe-
many lessons were learned and tes of the Security Council must be acekeeping operations do not take
the discourse of cultural relativism adapted to the needs of that par- time to understand existing capa-
gained strength, the 2015 Nyakhat ticular territory. Mandates must be bilities, “They simply replace local
Report was a more people-cen- aligned with local capacities and structures with exogenous ones” .
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tered document. It provided a
more upward view, inviting the STRATEGIC ADVISING IS A TOOL USED BY THE
UN to work on conflict preven- INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY TO BUILD THE
tion and mediation, establi-
shing more comprehensive and CAPACITY OF GOVERNMENTS TO GOVERN SO-
inclusive political and diploma- CIETIES EMERGING FROM CONFLICT OR TRAN-
tic solutions. This perspective
seeks to understand a country’s SITIONING FROM AUTHORITARIAN TO DEMO-
justice system as part of its cul- CRATIC REGIMES
ture. According to the Nyakhat
report, “Lasting peace is not
achieved through military and te- deficits, not the other way around . Particularly prior to the release of
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chnical agreements, but through However, despite the boom in the the Brahimi report in 2000, cri-
political solutions”. Therefore, “Po- term “local” at the UN and the ticisms of peace-building were
litical solutions must always guide speech of many organizations, growing . Most of the problems
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the design and implementation of the Nyakhat Report recognizes addressed are still present today,
UN peacekeeping operations” . “the UN Secretariat is not yet a as demonstrated by the 2015
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According to the Report, peaceke- field-focused or field-enabled en- Nyakhat Report. Among the is-
eping operations must not only tity” . Operations and other actors sues faced by UN peacekeeping
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consult local people, but also in- still act as if post-conflict countries operations are developments to
clude them in their work and in are blank pages and people are cover vast terrain making access
the decision-making process. It projects and are therefore unable to the dispersed population diffi-
says that working with local com- to set priorities for themselves and cult; The challenge of identifying
munities allows missions “to mo- their country . The Report also no- local representatives who actually
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nitor how local people experience tes that several actors from the lo- speak for a particular group and
getting involved with a particular
network of people who speak En-
glish or French; The lack of clarity
on how to help the local popula-
tion and promote truly consultati-
ve processes; And the difficulties
of executing a transparent process
that does not raise concerns with
host government . In light of this,
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the UN peace speech has to be
constantly questioned and revised.
However, as stated in the Nyakhat
Report, the goal of peacekeeping
operations should be less prioriti-
zed, less tasks and better sequen-

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