• This paper argues that unless the Peacebuilding Commission adopts a ‘multi-tiered approach’ which is designed to better identify and respond to multiple peacebuilding challenges, it will remain a marginal actor in an already overcrowded peacebuilding field.
• Necla Tschirgi is a Research Associate at the Centre for International Policy Studies at University of Ottawa, and former Senior Policy Advisor in the Peacebuilding Support Office at the United Nations

  Escaping Path Dependency: A Proposed Multi-Tiered Approach for the UN’s Peacebuilding Commission