This joint publication demonstrates how economic, social and cultural rights can contribute to a sustaining peace approach to peacebuilding. The report is intended to stress the importance of such rights to effective conflict prevention, peace-making, transition and post-conflict peacebuilding. It further seeks to highlight challenges encountered in utilising such rights as part of a sustaining peace approach but also to illustrate developing and good practice through concrete examples. It concludes by offering some recommendations as to how relevant actors can take steps to ensure that economic, social and cultural rights are integrated into prevention strategies, protected and promoted in conflict affected settings, thus contributing to sustaining peace. Indeed, it is argued that without such consideration of economic, social and cultural rights sustaining peace within a society will not be possible.