Building peace after conflict is inevitably a long-term endeavor. Significant resources have been dedicated to analyzing the tasks that face peace builders in the immediate post-conflict period: providing humanitarian assistance, nurturing political dialogue, disarming and demobilizing combatants and the deploying peace support missions. Comparatively little analysis has been undertaken on the long-term dimensions of peace-building processes. However, it is in this longer-term phase of the process, at its five-, seven- and even ten-year marks, that peace-building initiatives typically succeed or fail. It is during the long-term phase of peace-building consolidation, that a range of complex priorities emerge: political reconciliation, transitional justice and good governance principles. Comparative research will be undertaken on peace-building process in three countries -- Haiti, Afghanistan and South Sudan -- which offer unique perspectives on long-term post-conflict transition.