Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Development (PCRD) is one of the tools of the African Union (AU) designed to curb the severity and repeated nature of conflicts in Africa as well as bring about sustained development. With the PCRD Policy the AU seeks to break the cyclical violence that has become the continent's trademark. Working on the policy comprising of six indicative elements:

security
humanitarian/emergency assistance
political governance and transition
socio-economic reconstruction and development
human rights, justice and reconciliation
women and gender

The AU endeavors to address the challenges facing states and its people emerging from conflict. Therefore PCRD takes a multidisciplinary approach to mitigating the challenges facing the continent. In view of research that has shown that countries that have evolved from conflicts have tended to revert back into conflicts within a period of about five years, PCRD stresses on the long-term nature of post-conflict reconstruction strategies that are founded within and by communities and states themselves.

The AU PCRD also endeavors to compliment the UN Peace Building Commission's work in identifying states that are at risk of becoming failed states by providing timely help to such states and peoples and that way contributing towards lowering the rate at which war-torn countries may relapse into conflict.

 

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