We're certainly an advocate for strengthening civil society participation in peace processes, in disarmament processes, and in other sources of activities, obviously on the development side. Our development colleagues in the NGO community are very interested, very concerned, and are working on these issues.
You can't create government institutions without the consent and the legitimacy of the people. Civil society needs to be engaged. Women need to be engaged because there are gender dimensions to conflict that people like me still need to learn a lot about. Those sorts of supports are definitely needed.
