Summer time is the season when rains start to make the desert friendlier and when radicals and their associates feel blessed. In competition, the new hardliners of Daech and the old radicals of Aqim have however many reasons to feel upbeat this summer and next winter. That is unless North Africa two powerful states, Algeria and Morocco, decide to join hands with their sub Saharan neighbors against violent extremism.

“The review should propose ways to strengthen the performance and impact of the Peacebuilding Architecture, with a view to realizing its full potential. To this end, the review should provide recommendations on the functioning, resources, and modes of engagement of the Peacebuilding Architecture and on its links with the United Nationssystem entities that engage with it”.

In the United Nations’ quest for peace, the decision to create the Peacebuilding Commission, the Peacebuilding Support Office (PBSO), and the Peacebuilding Fund in 2005 was hailed as a significant achievement. However, five years later, the first review of this peacebuilding architecture was characterized as one of unrealized hopes. Recommendations were made to fill in the gaps, but by 2015, hopes had further diminished, according to recent surveys.