ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses the conceptual development of the term "peacebuilding" in Boutros-Ghali's An Agenda for Peace and how it evolved in its 1995 Supplement for An Agenda for Peace and in its 1994 An Agenda for Development. It discusses the timing and sequence of UN activities and analyzes what his proposals for "an integrated approach to human security" and "an integrated approach to development" mean in practice. The "post-conflict" qualification was designed to contrast it with "preventive diplomacy", an ongoing and fundamental UN peacebuilding activity. The chapter also addresses the issue of local "ownership" of policies and strategies for peacebuilding, and analyzes the arguments of the Secretary-General for the UN to be able to draw on resources of the UN system as a whole for this purpose. It presents additional points made by academics and practitioners highlighting the economic aspects of peacebuilding, which reflect mostly their own expertise and the institutional mandate of their own organizations.
