Peacebuilding Support Office
Mandate of the Peacebuilding Support Office
The Peacebuilding Support Office (PBSO) was established to assist and support the Peacebuilding Commission with strategic advice and policy guidance, administer the Peacebuilding Fund and to serve the Secretary-General in coordinating United Nations agencies in their peacebuilding efforts. In the founding resolutions (A/RES/60/180 and S/RES/1645(2005)) establishing the Peacebuilding Commission, the United Nations General Assembly and the Security Council requested “the Secretary-General to establish, within the Secretariat, from within existing resources, a small peacebuilding support office staffed by qualified experts to assist and support the Commission”. The office comprises the Peacebuilding Commission Support Branch, the Policy, Planning and Application Branch and the Financing for Peacebuilding Branch.
The UN Peacebuilding Community of Practice (PB-CoP), a part of the knowledge management of the PBSO, is a network that provides support to peacebuilding practitioners. Currently, the PB-CoP unites over 500 peacebuilding practitioners from 65 countries and 40 UN departments and agencies. For more information, please contact PBSO's Associate Policy Officer, Sylvia Rognvik (rognvik@un.org)
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