ABSTRACT
This chapter assesses the overall impact of the United Nations (UN) Peacebuilding Architecture (PBA) on the UN system and wider peacebuilding and development community over its first decade in existence. Based on this assessment, it will generate recommendations for how the PBA can be modified and adjusted to create more synergy and fusion between the UN's peace and development work. The chapter focuses on the whole-of-system impact of the PBA. It looks at the specific institutions that make up the PBA, such as the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) and Peacebuilding Fund (PBF), their origins and early history, and others looks at the impact these institutions have had in the specific countries that are on the PBC's agenda. The work of the PBC in Burundi, Sierra Leone, and elsewhere helped foster the idea of a strategic peacebuilding framework, as the overarching and integrating strategic framework for all the peace consolidation work of the government and the international community.
