               United Nations                                                                    S/RES/2282 (2016)
               Security Council                                                Distr.: General
                                                                               27 April 2016




               Resolution 2282 (2016)
               Adopted by the Security Council at its 7680th meeting, on
               27 April 2016

                    The Security Council,
                    Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
                     Reaffirming its resolutions 1645 (2005), 1646 (2005) and 1947 (2010), and
               recalling its resolutions 2171 (2014), 1325 (2000) and its subsequent resolutions,
               and 2250 (2015) and the Statements of the President of the Security Council
               S/PRST/2001/5, S/PRST/2011/4, S/PRST/2012/29 and S/PRST/2015/2, and
               recalling General Assembly Resolutions A/69/313, A/70/6 and A/70/1,
                    Taking note of the report of the High-Level Independent Panel on Peace
               Operations (A/70/95-S/2015/446) and the report of the Secretary-General on the
               Implementation of the Recommendations of the High-Level Independent Panel on
               Peace Operations of 17 June 2015 (A/70/357-S/2015/682) and the report of the
               Secretary-General of 17 September 2015 (S/2015/716) submitting the results of the
               Global Study on the implementation of resolution 1325 (2000), and encouraging
               coherence, synergies, and complementarities in taking them forward,
                     Recognizing that development, peace and security, and human rights are
               interlinked and mutually reinforcing,
                    Reaffirming its primary responsibility for the maintenance of international
               peace and security, in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations,
                     Deeply concerned by the high human cost and suffering caused by armed
               conflicts, and recognizing the significant number of simultaneous security and
               humanitarian crises that the world currently faces, and the strain that this places on
               the resources of the United Nations’ system,
                    Recalling the determination of the peoples of the United Nations to save
               succeeding generations from the scourge of war, further recalling the determination
               to establish a just and lasting peace all over the world in accordance with the
               purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
                    Recognizing that ‘sustaining peace’, as drawn from the Advisory Group of
               Experts report, should be broadly understood as a goal and a process to build a
               common vision of a society, ensuring that the needs of all segments of the
               population are taken into account, which encompasses activities aimed at preventing

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               the outbreak, escalation, continuation and recurrence of conflict, addressing root
               causes, assisting parties to conflict to end hostilities, ensuring national
               reconciliation, and moving towards recovery, reconstruction and deve lopment, and
               emphasizing that sustaining peace is a shared task and responsibility that needs to be
               fulfilled by the government and all other national stakeholders, and should flow
               through all three pillars of the United Nations’ engagement at all stages o f conflict,
               and in all its dimensions, and needs sustained international attention and assistance,
                     Reaffirming the primary responsibility of national governments and authorities
               in identifying, driving and directing priorities, strategies and activities for sustaining
               peace, and in this regard, emphasizing that inclusivity is key to advancing national
               peacebuilding processes and objectives in order to ensure that the needs of all
               segments of society are taken into account,
                     Stressing that civil society can play an important role in advancing efforts to
               sustain peace,
                    Recalling General Assembly resolution A/70/1, entitled “Transforming our
               world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, which adopted a
               comprehensive, far-reaching and people-centred set of universal and transformative
               Sustainable Development Goals and targets,
                     Emphasizing the importance of a comprehensive approach to sustaining peace,
               particularly through the prevention of conflict and addressing its root causes,
               strengthening the rule of law at the international and national levels, and promoting
               sustained and sustainable economic growth, poverty eradication, social
               development, sustainable development, national reconciliation and unity including
               through inclusive dialogue and mediation, access to justice and transitional justice,
               accountability, good governance, democracy, accountable institutions, gender
               equality and respect for, and protection of, human rights and funda mental freedoms,
                     Recognizing that peacebuilding is an inherently political process aimed at
               preventing the outbreak, escalation, recurrence or continuation of conflict, and
               further recognizing that peacebuilding encompasses a wide range of political,
               developmental, and human rights programmes and mechanisms,
                     Recognizing that an integrated and coherent approach among relevant political,
               security and developmental actors, within and outside of the United Nations system,
               consistent with their respective mandates, and the Charter of the United Nations, is
               critical to sustaining peace, and essential for improving respect for human rights,
               advancing gender equality, empowering women and youth, strengthening the rule of
               law, eradicating poverty, building institutions, and advancing economic
               development in conflict-affected countries,
                     Welcoming the work of the Peacebuilding Commission as a dedicated
               intergovernmental advisory body to bring a strategic approach and coherence to
               international peacebuilding efforts, and recognizing the valuable work done in all its
               configurations and meetings,
                     Recognizing the need for United Nations peacebuilding efforts to have
               adequate, predictable and sustained financing in order to effectively assist countries
               to sustain peace and prevent the outbreak, escalation, continuation and recurrence o f
               conflict,




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                 Welcoming the valuable work undertaken by the Peacebuilding Fund as a
           catalytic, rapid-response and flexible pre-positioned pooled fund providing
           financing to activities to sustain peace in conflict-affected countries, and in
           advancing strategic alignment within the United Nations system and between the
           United Nations and the international financial institutions,
                 Recognizing the importance of strategic partnerships, pooled funding and
           blended finance between the United Nations, bilateral and international donors,
           multilateral financial institutions, and the private sector in order to share risks and
           maximize the impact of peacebuilding efforts, taking into account the need to ensure
           transparency, accountability and appropriate monitoring of funds,
                 Recognizing that the scale and nature of the challenge of sustaining peace calls
           for close strategic and operational partnerships between the United Nations, national
           governments and other key stakeholders, including international, regional and
           sub-regional organizations, international financial institutions, civil society
           organizations, women’s groups, youth organizations, and the private sector, taking
           into account national priorities and policies,
                 Welcoming the contribution of peacekeeping operations to a comprehensive
           strategy for sustaining peace and, noting with appreciation the contributions that
           peacekeepers and peacekeeping missions make to peacebuilding,
                Reiterating that United Nations’ cooperation with regional and sub -regional
           organizations is critical to contributing to the prevention of the outbreak, escalation,
           continuation and recurrence of conflict, in line with Chapter VIII of the United
           Nations Charter,
                 Reaffirming the important role of women in peacebuilding and noting the
           substantial link between women’s full and meaningful involvement in efforts to
           prevent, resolve and rebuild from conflict and those efforts’ effectiveness and long
           term sustainability, and stressing, in this regard, the importance of women’s equal
           participation in all efforts for the maintenance and promotion of peace and security
           and the need to increase women’s role in decision-making with regard to conflict
           prevention and resolution and peacebuilding,
                Reaffirming the important role youth can play in the prevention and resolution
           of conflicts and as a key aspect of the sustainability, inclusiveness and success of
           peacekeeping and peacebuilding efforts,
                1.  Welcomes the valuable input of the Advisory Group of Experts on the
           Review of the Peacebuilding Architecture entitled the ‘Challenge of Sustaining
           Peace’;
                2.    Emphasizes that sustaining peace requires coherence, sustained
           engagement, and coordination between the General Assembly, the Security Council,
           and the Economic and Social Council, consistent with their mandates as set out in
           the Charter of the United Nations;
                 3.   Reaffirms the importance of national ownership and leadership in
           peacebuilding, whereby the responsibility for sustaining peace is broadly shared by
           the Government and all other national stakeholders and underlines the importance,
           in this regard, of inclusivity in order to ensure that the needs of all segments of
           society are taken into account;



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                     4.    Reaffirms its Resolution 1645 (2005), including the main purposes of the
               Peacebuilding Commission as an intergovernmental advisory body, and stresses the
               importance of the Peacebuilding Commission to fulfil the following functions in
               this regard:
                     (a) To bring sustained international attention to sustaining peace, and to
               provide political accompaniment and advocacy to countries affected by conflict,
               with their consent;
                     (b) To promote an integrated, strategic and coherent approach to
               peacebuilding, noting that security, development and human rights are closely
               interlinked and mutually reinforcing;
                     (c) To serve a bridging role among the principal organs and relevant entities
               of the United Nations by sharing advice on peacebuilding needs and priorities, in
               line with the respective competencies and responsibilities of these bodies;
                     (d) To serve as a platform to convene all relevant actors within and outside
               the United Nations, including from Member States, national authorities, United
               Nations missions and country teams, international, regional and sub -regional
               organizations, international financial institutions, civil society, women’s groups,
               youth organizations and, where relevant, the private sector and national human
               rights institutions, in order to provide recommendations and information to improve
               their coordination, to develop and share good practices in peacebuilding, including
               on institution building, and to ensure predictable financing to peacebuilding;
                     5.   Encourages the Peacebuilding Commission, through its Organizational
               Committee, to review its provisional rules of procedure in order to improve the
               continuity of its Chairs and Vice-Chairs, enhance its focus on developments at the
               country and regional level, and foster greater engagement by its membership, and
               further encourages the Peacebuilding Commission, through its Organizational
               Committee, to consider diversifying its working methods to enhance its efficiency
               and flexibility in support of sustaining peace including by:
                    (a) Providing options for its country-specific meetings and formats, to be
               applied upon the request of the country concerned, as referred to the Commission in
               accordance with the relevant provisions of its resolution 1645;
                     (b) Enabling it to consider regional and cross-cutting issues relevant to
               sustaining peace;
                    (c) Enhancing synergies       between    the   Peacebuilding   Fund   and   the
               Peacebuilding Commission, and;
                    (d) Continuing to use its annual session to facilitate closer engagement with
               relevant stakeholders;
                    6.   Reaffirms its call upon the Peacebuilding Commission to integrate a
               gender perspective into all of its work;
                     7.    Requests the Peacebuilding Commission to include in its annual report
               information on progress in implementing the provisions of its present resolution
               relating to its working methods and provisional rules of procedure;
                    8.   Acknowledges the importance of strong coordination, coherence and
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           1645, and in this regard, expresses its intention to regularly request, deliberate and
           draw upon the specific, strategic and targeted advice of the Peacebuilding
           Commission, including to assist with the longer-term perspective required for
           sustaining peace being reflected in the formation, review and drawdown of
           peacekeeping operations and special political missions mandates;
                9.   Emphasizes the importance of drawing upon the advice of the
           Peacebuilding Commission when major agreements that relate to United Nations
           mission mandates and transitions, are agreed between the United Nations, national
           governments and authorities, and other relevant stakeholders;
                10. Stresses the importance of closer cooperation between the Economic and
           Social Council and Peacebuilding Commission, in accordance with their respective
           mandates, including through enhanced dialogue in support of promoting coherence
           and complementarity between the United Nations’ peace and security efforts and its
           development, human rights and humanitarian work, and encourages the
           Peacebuilding Commission to draw on the expertise of relevant Economic and
           Social Council subsidiary bodies, as appropriate;
                11. Encourages United Nations Member States participating in the Universal
           Periodic Review process of the Human Rights Council to consider the human rights
           dimensions of peacebuilding, as appropriate;
                12. Stresses that a comprehensive approach to transitional justice, including
           promotion of healing and reconciliation, a professional, accountable and effective
           security sector, including through its reform, and inclusive and effective
           demobilization, disarmament and reintegration programmes, including the transition
           from demobilization and disarmament to reintegration, are critical to consolidation
           of peace and stability, promoting poverty reduction, rule of law, access to justice
           and good governance, further extending legitimate state authority, and preventing
           countries from lapsing or relapsing into conflict;
                 13. Recognizes that effective peacebuilding must involve the entire United
           Nations system, and in this regard, emphasizes the importance of joint analysis and
           effective strategic planning across the United Nations system in its long term
           engagement in conflict-affected countries and, where appropriate, in cooperation
           and coordination with regional and sub-regional organizations;
                 14. Emphasizes the important role that effective and responsive leadership in
           United Nations country operations can play in bringing together the United Nations
           system around a common strategy for sustaining peace, and in this regard, stresses
           the need for more coordinated, coherent and integrated peacebuilding efforts,
           including among United Nations missions, United Nations country teams, and
           national, regional and international development actors, in ensuring greater
           effectiveness and efficiency in the delivery of critical peacebuilding tasks;
                 15. Stresses that the Peacebuilding Support Office should be revitalized, and
           emphasizes that the full support of the Secretary-General is needed, in order for the
           Peacebuilding Support Office to support the Peacebuilding Commission, to increase
           synergies with other parts of the United Nations system, and to provide strategic
           advice to the Secretary-General, drawing together the expertise of the United
           Nations system to facilitate coherent system-wide action and support partnerships
           for sustaining peace;



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                     16. Recognizes that development is a central goal in itself and recognizes the
               important contributions of the United Nations development system to peacebuilding,
               particularly through economic development and poverty eradication, and stresses
               the need to continue strengthening cooperation and coordination for that purpose in
               the field through United Nations Country Teams and at United Nations
               Headquarters, in accordance with their respective mandates, and with respect for
               national ownership and priorities of countries-affected by conflict, including
               through the overarching framework of the United Nations operational activities for
               development;
                     17. Takes note of the Secretary-General’s decision to request the United
               Nations Development Group to take forward a review of the current capacities of
               agencies, funds and programmes and particularly looks forward to its findings
               contributing to enhancing the United Nations capacities relating to sustaining peace;
                     18. Underlines that the scale and nature of the challenge of sustaining peace
               can be met through close strategic and operational partnerships between national
               governments, the United Nations, and other key stakeholders, including
               international, regional and sub-regional organizations, international financial
               institutions, regional and other development banks, civil society organizations,
               women’s groups, youth organizations and where relevant, the private sector, and
               encourages the Peacebuilding Commission to consider options for regular
               exchanges and joint initiatives with key stakeholders to promote sustainable peace,
               including in the framework of the annual sessions of the Peacebuilding
               Commission;
                    19. Stresses the importance of partnership and cooperation between the
               United Nations and relevant regional and sub-regional organizations, including the
               African Union, to improve cooperation and coordination in peacebuilding, to
               increase synergies and ensure the coherence and complementarity of such efforts,
               and in this regard, urges the Peacebuilding Commission to hold regular exchanges
               of views with relevant regional and sub-regional organizations and encourages
               regular exchanges, joint initiatives, and information sharing between the
               Peacebuilding Support Office and relevant bodies of regional and sub -regional
               organizations, such as the African Union Commission;
                    20. Requests the Secretary-General to explore options for strengthening the
               United Nations-World Bank collaboration in conflict-affected countries in order to:
                    (a) assist such countries, upon their request, in creating an enabling
               environment for economic growth, foreign investment and job creation, and in the
               mobilization and effective use of domestic resources, in line with national priorities
               and underscored by the principle of national ownership;
                   (b) marshal resources, and align their regional and country strategies, to
               promote sustainable peace;
                    (c) support the creation of enlarged funding platforms bringing together the
               World Bank Group, multilateral and bilateral donors and regional actors to pool
               resources, share and mitigate risk, and maximize impact for sustaining peace;
                    (d)   enable and encourage regular exchanges on priority peacebuilding areas;
                     21. Underscores the importance of women’s leadership and participation in
               conflict prevention, resolution and peacebuilding, and recognizes the continuing


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           need to increase representation of women at all decision -making levels in national,
           regional and international institutions and mechanisms for the prevention and
           resolution of conflict, and the consideration of gender -related issues in all
           discussions pertinent to sustaining peace;
                22. Encourages the Secretary-General to promote the gender dimensions of
           peacebuilding, including through the delivery of gender-sensitive and targeted
           programming, through the strengthening of women’s meaningful participation in
           peacebuilding, supporting women’s organizations and through monitoring, tracking
           and reporting achievement;
                 23. Calls upon Member States and relevant United Nations organs and
           entities to consider ways to increase meaningful and inclusive participation of youth
           in peacebuilding efforts through creating policies, including in partnership with
           private sector where relevant, that would enhance youth capacities and skills, and
           create youth employment to actively contribute to sustaining peace, and in this
           regard, requests the Secretary-General and the Peacebuilding Commission to
           include in their recommendations ways to engage youth in peacebuilding ;
                 24. Emphasizes the need for predictable and sustained financing to United
           Nations peacebuilding activities, including through increased contributions, and
           strengthened partnerships with key stakeholders, while also noting the significance
           that non-monetary contributions can play in peacebuilding efforts;
                 25. Welcomes the contributions made to the Peacebuilding Fund, takes note
           of the proposals in the Advisory Group of Experts’ report in this regard and urges all
           Member States, including non-traditional donors and other partners, to consider
           making voluntary contributions to the fund, including by building on the practice of
           making multi-year commitments to the fund;
                 26. Recognizes the importance of adequately resourcing the peacebuilding
           components of relevant United Nations peacekeeping operations and special
           political missions, including during mission transitions and drawdown, to support
           stability and continuity of peacebuilding activities;
                  27. Stresses the importance of enhancing the mobilization of resources for
           initiatives that address the particular needs of women in peacebuilding contexts,
           advance gender equality, and empower women;
                 28. Takes note of the General Assembly decision to include in the agenda of
           its seventy-first session an item entitled ‘Peacebuilding and Sustaining Peace’;
                 29. Takes note of the General Assembly decision to convene at its seventysecond session, under the agenda item ‘Peacebuilding and Sustaining Peace’, a
           high-level meeting of the General Assembly on efforts undertaken and opportunities
           to strengthen the United Nations’ work on sustaining peace, on a date and in a
           format to be decided by the President of the General Assembly;
                 30. Takes note of the General Assembly decision to invite the Secretary-General to report to the seventy-second session of the General Assembly, at least
           sixty days prior to the high-level meeting on ‘Peacebuilding and Sustaining Peace’,
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                    (a) To strengthen operational and policy coherence within the United
               Nations system towards sustaining peace, including strengthened strategic planning
               across the United Nations system;
                    (b) To improve internal United Nations leadership, capability, and
               accountability — at Headquarters, and in the field — on efforts to sustain peace;
                    (c) To ensure continuity of relevant peacebuilding programmes, senior
               leadership, and personnel, as appropriate, through the different phases of United
               Nations engagement, in order to improve mission transitions;
                     (d) To strengthen partnerships between the United Nations and key
               stakeholders, including international, regional and sub -regional organizations,
               international financial institutions, and civil society organizations;
                     (e) To provide options on increasing, restructuring and better prioritizing
               funding dedicated to United Nations peacebuilding activities, including through
               assessed and voluntary contributions, with a view to ensuring sustainable financing
               for the consideration of Member States;
                     (f) To provide options for adequate resourcing of the peacebuilding
               activities of United Nations Country Teams, and the peacebuilding components of
               United Nations peacekeeping operations and special political missions, including
               during mission transitions and drawdown for the consideration of Member States;
                    (g) To strengthen the capacity of the senior leadership of the United Nations
               Country Team to absorb relevant peacebuilding functions following the drawdown
               of Security Council mandated missions;
                    (h) To support the participation of women and youth in peacebuilding
               processes, including through advocacy with national stakeholders, and support to
               women’s and youth organizations;
                    (i)   To revitalize the Peacebuilding Support Office;
                    31. Calls for a further comprehensive            review   of   United   Nations
               peacebuilding at its seventy-fourth session;
                    32.   Decides to remain seized of the matter.




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