Sustaining Peace and Prevention: Comparing Responses to Crises in Gambia and Burundi

Meeting Report

This workshop was the fourth in the “Applying Sustaining Peace” series, and focused on how to conceptualize prevention through a sustaining peace lens. Later this year, the Secretary-General’s forthcoming report on Sustaining Peace will further explore and define sustaining peace.

This workshop drew on two recent and interesting cases, the ECOWAS intervention in Gambia and the lack of regional or international intervention in Burundi. Discussing processes and progress in both countries, workshop participants analyzed the role of regional and international actors in prevention.

Workshops participants included member states active in the Security Council and/or the Peacebuilding Commission; experts from the UN system including the Peacebuilding Support Office, the UN Development Program, the Department of Political Affairs’ Africa Bureau, UN Women; and representatives from international think tanks working in the peace and security arena.

This informal meeting summary will be followed with an analytical report after the workshop series concludes.

Download the full meeting report: Sustaining Peace and Prevention: Comparing Responses to Crises in Gambia and Burundi

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