The Economic and Social Council Ad Hoc Advisory Groups on African Countries Emerging from Conflict: The Silent Avant-Garde

New York: United Nations, 2006. This book presents an assessment of the role, performance and practice of the ECOSOC Ad Hoc Advisory Groups on African Countries Emerging from Conflict. The Mandate of these groups is to prepare recommendations for a long-term programme of support and provide advice on how to ensure that the assistance of the international community is adequate, coherent, well coordinated and effective. This experience constitutes a new form of international support to countries emerging from conflicts within multilateral institutions. The lessons learned from their work are particularly relevant in the context of the increased role of the United Nations in the field of peace building. This book presents an assessment of the role, performance and practice of the ECOSOC Ad Hoc Advisory Groups on African Countries Emerging from Conflict. The Mandate of these groups is to prepare recommendations for a long-term program of support and provide advice on how to ensure that the assistance of the international community is adequate, coherent, well coordinated and effective. This experience constitutes a new form of international support to countries emerging from conflicts within multilateral institutions.--Publisher's description. As part of its charge to advance the concept of a comprehensive approach to peace-building and coordinated support for countries emerging from conflict, the United Nations' Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) established its first advisory groups on African countries in 2002 and 2003, focusing respectively on Guinea-Bissau and Burundi. Jochen Ptantl (international relations, U. of Oxford) here evaluates these two initial efforts as a guide to further action. There is no index. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)