Social Reconstruction and Human Security

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U.S. Institute of Peace
2301 Constitution Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20037

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This course explores challenges and opportunities for successful humanitarian assistance and longer-term needs for social well-being and development in fragile states.

Social reconstruction is a condition in which the population achieves a level of tolerance and peaceful co-existence; gains social cohesion through acceptance of a national identity that transcends individual, sectarian, and communal differences; has the mechanisms and will to resolve disputes nonviolently; has community institutions that bind society across divisions; and addresses the legacy of past abuses. Social well-being of the people in a country or a community is considered a critical end state for societies emerging from conflict.

This course will serve as a forum on how social reconstruction and human security can enhance peace and stability operations as well as humanitarian assistance and development. Enhancing social well-being in fragile states, such as promoting peaceful coexistence between parties to the conflict, dealing with the needs of refugees and displaced persons, and strengthening civil society, is a critical cornerstone for sustainable peace.

Drawing upon case studies of peace operations and peacebuilding efforts, participants will analyze the links between social well-being—particularly health, education, environmental protection, and refugee needs—and security, governance, rule of law, and economic development, as well as explore the relationship between reconciliation and social well-being.

Participants will examine best practices in promoting social well-being via delivery of basic necessities, provision of social services, and assuring environmental protection as well as managing the challenges, risks, rewards, and trade-offs of efforts to promote social well-being. They will also develop a framework for prioritizing peacebuilding and peace operations and explore the key components of reconciliation.

Related Academy Courses:

• Engaging with Identity-Based Differences
• Supporting Police Reform: Capacity Building for Advisers and Trainers
• Stabilization and Peacebuilding: Understanding Dynamic Processes and Making Them Work