What do you understand by the term peacebuilding when applied to NGOs working in conflict areas? How can it be integrated into their development work? Discuss the challenges.
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Module: Conflict, Humanitarian Aid and Social Reconstruction Question: What do you understand by the term peacebuilding when applied to NGOs working in conflict areas? How can it be integrated into their development work? Discuss the challenges. Due Date: 23.03.04 In the same year that Boutros-Boutros Ghali initiated the Agenda for Peace (1992) and its assuaged companion, the Agenda for Development1, came a Zed books publication called The Development Dictionary (Sachs 1992). Needless to say, these perspectives were built on a number of observations in a then highly rupturing and shaky world. From the more orthodox perspectives though, these movements embodied a birth (or re-birth if you like), while for the latter school of thought they triumphantly articulated decay and death. This situation exhibited the wider realm of discourse in which NGOs as agents of 'development', specifically those NGOs working in conflict areas, were later to find particularly urbane; it is now in...

