Armed conflict: Trends and drivers

This background paper has been produced for a workshop on “Civil society views on next generation peacebuilding and conflict prevention policy and programming issues and responses”, convened by Peacebuild in Ottawa on March 14, 2011 with the support of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade.

War and peace are not subject to any political/military determinism and the language of causation needs to be approached with considerable caution, but there are clearly some conditions and circumstances under which war is more likely to occur and to persist. The objective is to develop a clearer sense of the structural or chronic conditions that heighten the risks of war, and, conversely, the more urgent objective is to identify the conditions that should be fostered in order to significantly reduce the risks of war.

Peace Build 2011

Peacebuild, formerly the Canadian Peacebuilding Coordinating Committee (CPCC), is a member-based network of Canadian non-governmental organizations and individuals actively involved in peacebuilding practice and policy development.