State Building
IPI’s state building project is aimed at providing analytical policy support to contribute to the improvement of international peacebuilding efforts. The project has been developed and will be conducted jointly with the Center on International Cooperation (CIC) at New York University.
Launched in 2006, the project builds upon several years of IPI research examining the legitimacy and effectiveness of international efforts to rebuild states after conflict, as well as IPI’s previous research on transitional administrations, peace implementation, and peacebuilding. The new project expands IPI’s engagement with key UN actors to support efforts to realize the new peacebuilding institutions at the UN, particularly during their critical start-up phase in 2006 and 2007.
- Clear and useful policy guidance to key policymakers in post-conflict states, in bilateral and multilateral aid agencies, and within the United Nations, to improve post-conflict peacebuilding and state building outcomes;
- Practical guidance to key personnel engaged in post-conflict state building and peacebuilding projects in order to enhance the outputs and success of programs in creating legitimate and effective governance; and
- Insight into architectural arrangements, both at the systemic level and at the intra-agency level to improve the quality of state building policies and programs.
