3-15. Peace building is the long-term post-conflict process of creating conditions for a lasting peace. It strengthens host-nation capacities to address the root causes of conflict, rebuild institutions, infrastructure, and civic life, and maintain effective and harmonious political and societal order. Peace building is stability actions that strengthen and rebuild a society’s institutions, infrastructure, and civic life to avoid a relapse into conflict (JP 3-07.3). Stability operations promote reconciliation, strengthen and rebuild civil infrastructures and institutions, build confidence, and support economic reconstruction to prevent a return to conflict.