The Future of International State-Building and Reconstruction Efforts: Summary and Recommendations
This paper attempts to pull together the different threads and the various rec-ommendations made in the individual chapters. It is intended to serve as a ba-sis for further discussions about lessons learned and recommendations to be made. As concerns terminology: there are many different ways to name the subject of interest of this conference: “peacebuilding”, “peacekeeping”, “peace support operations”, “international stabilization efforts”, “security, transition and reconstruction”, “nation building” or “state-building”. None of these terms seems to cover the whole substance. The term used here is “inter-national state-building and re-construction efforts” (ISBRE). It is used de-spite some misgivings, because it allows us to focus on the efforts of a given international community of state and non-state actors towards building a state in a given society where state structures have been severely destroyed or compromised and where the political institutions, society and economy have to be re-constructed or constructed anew.
