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Improve UN Civilian Capacity to Help Build
Back Swiftly in the Aftermath of Conflict
Recommendation
Establish standing and reserve capacities to meet UN needs for rapidly deployable civilian specialist
skills in conflict prevention and peacebuilding efforts worldwide. Such a new civilian capability, with an
emphasis on gender parity, could be central to the early efficacy of future integrated UN peace operations
and special political missions.
Global Challenge Update
Violent conflicts are never static. Rapid emergency response post-conflict—and similarly
energetic efforts to prevent new or recurrent
conflicts—can reduce prospects of violence and
increase chances for sustainable peace.88 But, in
many instances, the international community’s
capacity to quickly mobilize critical technical expertise for effective early action has proven to be
less than satisfactory. The COVID-19 pandemic
has further tested global institutional capacity
to coordinate quick and effective responses to
crises. The global outbreak has the potential to
erode international crisis management systems
and further destabilize fragile countries by exacerbating both domestic and regional tensions.89
Building and sustaining peace requires greater
international civilian capacity to support the
objectives of post-conflict reconstruction and
governance.90 Despite this urgent identified
need to complement and strengthen national
and local-level governing functions in fragile
and conflict-affected situations, the UN faces
significant challenges in deploying civilian capabilities to missions and settings with mandates that vary widely.91
Matching growing demand with supply in an innovative, systematic way was the goal of the UN’s
Civilian Capacity initiative (CIVCAP, 2009–14)
and “CAPMATCH”—the UN’s former online civilian capacity sourcing platform. CAPMATCH
was used, for instance, to provide country-level
support to institution-building efforts in Liberia
and Côte D’Ivoire.92 Despite CIVCAP’s disbandment and the closure of the CAPMATCH platform,
the initiative drew attention to the many shortcomings related to the UN’s ability to deploy needed civilian capacities in conflict-affected states.93
Innovation Proposal
Building on these efforts, the Albright-Gambari
Commission proposed a new UN Civilian
Response Capability to meet three distinct
goals: (a) improving support for post-conflict
institution-building grounded in national ownership; (b) broadening and deepening the pool
of civilian expertise for peacebuilding; and (c)
enhancing regional, South-South, and triangular
cooperation in building and sustaining peace.94
Such an initiative would include a rapidly deployable cadre of 500 international staff possessing
technical and managerial skills, and fifty senior
mediators and Special Envoys/Representatives
of the Secretary-General with special attention
paid to the recruitment of women mediators and
mission leaders in line with UNSCR 1325 (2000)
and the UN’s Gender Parity Strategy. Ideally,
this group would be complemented by a twothousand-strong standby component of highly
skilled and periodically trained international
civil servants drawn voluntarily from across
the UN system—including the World Bank and
International Monetary Fund—and beyond, to