Sustainable Peace Depends on Involving Women

Assignment Task

The path to a negotiated settlement in Ukraine is worthy but unlikely in the short term. However, other options may exist to maintain an 'uneasy' peace between Ukraine and Russia along similar lines as the Korean Peninsula, Israel and the Arab States following the 1963 and 1973 wars, and Cyprus following the 1974 war. None of these conflicts was fully resolved but the status quo has held for at least 40 years. The key to such a successful arrangement may be one which allows for Ukraine to be a viable state (economically, politically, and militarily). For this to happen, there will need to be sufficient incentives and disincentives to deter Russia from undermining the Ukrainian state.

Summary of Research Project

Building or supporting 'social cohesion' is central to many peacebuilding and stabilization operations, but the concept, though widely used by international development and peace actors for programming in fragile contexts, has no shared definition or theoretical and operationalization consistency. Many actors have developed their own social cohesion frameworks to suit their specific programming objectives and contexts of intervention, often reflecting the pre-dispositions of their organizations. The IOM Transition and Recovery Division (TRD) is seeking to better understand the predominant analytical and theoretical approaches to strengthening social cohesion used by peace and development actors by using comparative analysis to better understand their pros and cons and underlying assumptions.

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