United Nations peace-keeping operations: a military and political appraisal
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The purpose of this research paper is to examine the challenges facing the United Nations in practicing preventive diplomacy to maintain peace and security in the new world order. The main question of the research paper looked for answers to uncover the reasons behind the successes and failures of the preventive diplomacy tools used by the United Nations for about 90 armed conflicts after the post-Cold War era. The increasing number of national and international conflicts covered with complexity, difficulty, and big costs, demands that the international community focus on making the ultimate positive use of preventive diplomacy. The words of the eighth United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon saying that preventive diplomacy is not an option but a necessity. Obviously, these words tell that the UN has to take the lead to conduct preventive diplomacy in the international community by preventing disputes and conflicts arising from interstate and intrastate relationships. The research paper showed through discussing the definition and concept of preventive diplomacy in the UN context that the UN is mandated and possesses the means and tools to prevent disputes and conflicts from emerging and escalating into armed confrontation. The UN is empowered with its Charter which sets out the legal basis of preventive diplomacy. The paper showed the approaches of preventive diplomacy used in the UN in peace and war times. Then, examples if successes and failures of the UN operations around the world are presented leading to analysis and extracting the UN's challenges in practicing preventive diplomacy. The UN has performed well and succeeded in preventive diplomacy around the world, especially in collaboration with sub-regional organizations. At the same time, failures are recorded due to reasons related to the way of treating the disputes. The UN's options are limited to peaceful settlement of disputes and its action is restricted by rules of international law of intervention, especially with regard to the prohibition ...
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International organizations are important participants in the realm of world politics. An area in which this has become highly visible is the field of United Nations peace operations. Since the end of the Cold War, UN peace operations have increased in number, geographical focus, as well as in their overall complexity.
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In: Irish Yearbook of International Law, edited by Fiona de Londras and Siobhán Mullally (Volume XIII), 2018
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Quick impact projects (QIPs) are by definition rapid, simple and cheap projects. QIPs have been implemented since 1992 during several United Nations (UN) missions, either with the objective to provide humanitarian aid or to "win the hearts and minds" of local people, mainly to contribute to the missions credibility. This paper analyzes the implementation of QIPs by the Military Component (MC) of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH). It was observed that, although not possible to quantitatively measure the consequences of QIPs, and with some reservations, their efficiency could be verified specially in the promotion of the mission credibility; enhancing security for military operations; and finally, facilitating the implementation of the mission mandate. It is concluded that the implementation of QIPs by MINUSTAH's MC, based on the implementation process adopted and the needs faced by MINUSTAH, is valuable and should be used as one amongst the several tools of the stabilization process.
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Peace-building is now a major aspect of the work of international institutions. While once the international community aimed simply to maintain a ceasefire and restore some form of stability in conflict zones, since the early 1990s there has been increasing attention given to creating peaceful and democratic societies through international intervention. A common problem in international peace-building projects over the past decade has been the position of women, particularly their limited involvement in the institutional design of peace-building strategies and the possibility that peace-building may actually reduce local women's agency in society. This article discusses the modern enterprise of peace-building and identifies international legal principles that can serve as a framework for peace-building projects in which women's lives are taken seriously.
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In: Fundação Alexandre de Gusmão 706
In: Coleção CAE
In: Sandvik, K.B., M. Gabrielsen Jumbert & K. Lohne, 2016 (2018 english version), 'Drones for Good: Conceptualizing the Role of Drones in Global Governance', Zhuo Li (ed) China International Strategy Review, Long River Press.
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Peace-building is now a major aspect of the work of international institutions. While once the international community aimed simply to maintain a ceasefire and restore some form of stability in conflict zones, since the early 1990s there has been increasing attention given to creating peaceful and democratic societies through international intervention. A common problem in international peace-building projects over the past decade has been the position of women, particularly their limited involvement in the institutional design of peace-building strategies and the possibility that peace-building may actually reduce local women's agency in society. This article discusses the modern enterprise of peace-building and identifies international legal principles that can serve as a framework for peace-building projects in which women's lives are taken seriously.
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In: Institute for Security Studies Paper 276
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In: Asian survey, Band 53, Heft 1, S. 156-161
ISSN: 1533-838X
Ten years after independence, 2012 proved a critical year for Timor-Leste, with three rounds of national elections, and the formation of a new government to take the country beyond the 13-year era of international peacekeeping. As the year closed, both the United Nations Mission in Timor-Leste and the Australian military-led International Stabilization Force formally concluded operations.
In: World affairs: the journal of international issues, Band 16, Heft 1, S. 24-38
ISSN: 0971-8052
In: International studies perspectives: ISP, Band 13, Heft 1
ISSN: 1528-3585
A decade after achieving independence, the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste (DRTL) continues to rely upon the United Nations (UN) directly and indirectly to carry out functions typically ascribed to the state. This dependency raises the specter of what scholars concerned with the breadth and extent of recent and ongoing UN operations in places such as Timor-Leste have dubbed "neo-trusteeship." This research advances an empirical accounting of, and explanation for, the emergence and persistence of neo-trusteeship in Timor-Leste. Careful scrutiny of the UN involvement in Timor-Leste betrays the origins and sources of the neo-trusteeship arrangement and suggests that neo-trusteeship is better understood as a by-product of the disjuncture between mandate overreach and organizational incapacity playing out within complex post-conflict environments rather than any intentional manifestation of "post-modern imperialism.". Adapted from the source document.
In: Policing and society: an international journal of research and policy, Band 21, Heft 1, S. 84-95
ISSN: 1477-2728
In: Global governance: a review of multilateralism and international organizations, Band 17, Heft 1, S. 37-55
ISSN: 2468-0958, 1075-2846
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