Peace operations seen from below : UN missions and local people /
"Cambodia, Somalia, Mozambique, Bosnia, Haiti, Sierra Leone - all have been the subject of interventions by armed UN units sent to stabilize societies riven by political and ethnic antagonism." "Apart from anecdotal reportage, little is known or has been investigated about how local i...
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| Sprache: | English |
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Bloomfield, CT :
Kumarian Press,
2006.
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Inhaltsangabe:
- The new forms of peace operations
- International visions of war and peace
- Local geography of UN peace operations
- The sphere of political, military, and economic entrepreneurs
- Indigenous 'civil societies'
- 'Local' employees of UN operations
- Different interpretations of a peace operation's mandate
- Missions' (in)capacity to carry out their mandates
- Peacekeepers lost in complex environments
- The history of relations with the outside world
- Figures of intervention
- Factors of mobilisation against the UN
- Ideas of 'legitimacy' and 'impartiality' redefined by local conditions
- What local actors expect from the UN
- Highly volatile balance of power
- Neither 'indifferent' nor 'apathetic' : why local communities protect themselves from the peacekeepers
- The limits of imposed 'procedural democracy' in post-war societies
- The political non-sense of most economic reconstruction programs
- Ambiguities of peacekeepers' role in maintaining 'law and order'
- The forgotten dimensions of 'justice' and 'reconciliation' programs.