ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the ways in which UN system-wide reforms have attempted to facilitate the alignment of the UN development and peacebuilding pillars. It argues that strengthening the UN's development pillar requires an alignment of the organization's work in this area with its peacebuilding, including its humanitarian, peacekeeping, and human rights activities. Aligning the development and other pillars that support UN efforts to maintain international peace and security is not a new idea. Peacebuilding seeks to address the proximate and root causes of contemporary conflicts including structural, political, socio-cultural, economic and environmental factors. Certainly, Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member states recognize the importance of the comparative advantage of various UN funds, programs, and specialized agencies that are part of the UN development pillar. Millennium Declaration explicitly linked the three pillars of security, development, and human rights in the organization's search for a peaceful, prosperous and just world.
