Thank you very much. Thank you for the work on that study. It's an important contribution globally.
Yes, I'm going to give a specific response to your question. When we look at a post-conflict setting, such as Liberia or the Democratic Republic of the Congo, there is a tendency in aid development funding—and this is normal—to fund the most urgent and pressing concern. Humanitarian aid is particularly focused on refugees and the most pressing needs of the moment.
However, the evidence shows that in terms of building lasting peace, you really need long-term investment, core investment, and that the actors who are most capable of sustaining peace and bringing about peace accords, for example, are local actors. This is not something that outside groups can come in and do for a society. It is something that here in Canada we do for ourselves, and groups in conflict countries must do that for themselves as well.
If you look at Liberia, which signed a peace accord in the early 2000s but is now slowly going back to some violence, it's really in part because investments have gone to other places. This is a danger in not sustaining funding to local groups that are actually working on long-term peace and sustainability issues.