Peacebuilding: A task for development cooperation

Abstract

The objective of this article is to give an overview of the contribution development actors can give in support of peacebuilding. The involvement of the development community into the peacebuilding discourse started mainly in the aftermath of the Rwandan crisis of 1994. The article looks at the different contributions of development to peacebuilding on the macro political and development sector level as well as on the operational level where traditional development programmes and projects can contribute to peace through the way they are working and through the support for new types of programmes and projects that are directly related to the objective 'peacebuilding'.