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un and global governance lecture 4 [2e747ab7]

Tags: UN and Global Governance

  • Operational uncertainty

  • Overambitious mandates and underresourced

    • Brahimi and HIPPO

      • similar roles

    • long leads on budgeting process

      • inflexibilty of budgeting process

  • Adamczyk - view of poc mandates wrt to force differ between UNSC and TCC

    • penholder roles and uncertainty?
  • IOM - UNMISS were poorly coordinated

  • Gorur and Sharland: Prioritizing the Protection of Civilians in UN Peace Operations

    • phaesd mandates
  • Blocq: The Fog of UN Peacekeeping

  • is it possible to write a mandate process that is the actually aligned with the situation on the ground?

    • tripe hatting -> is this fundalmentally wrong?
  • instituional knowledge -> is this fundalmentally lacking?
  • how much is the idea of PoC a lipstick on a pig?

  • merger of equals

    • merger of different departments without firing

    • complicated task of poc

      • impossible to itemize all potential issues

  • humanitarian space

    • when the UN enters the humanitarian space, what does that forclose?
    • IOM report talked about how the UN as a place of support, but if the mandates are interpreted differently, what happens?
  • how much does tcc influence have on the mandate?

1. Regulatory Frameworks

  • International Humanitarian Law
  • UN Mandates

2. PKO roles

  • Local communities should be made aware of the mandate and role of PKO's
  • tipping off gas is #1 crime

3. focus on civilian protection

  • 1999 studies show 90% of deaths on civilians

4. Range of POC Activities

  1. Protection through Political Process
  2. Protection from Physical Violence
  3. Establishing a protective environment

5. Challenges

  • Political diversity
  • Reactive capability
  • Unclear structures
  • Weak command and control, bad troop interop
  • Poor in house information and intel analysis
  • Bad information sharing <- airwars

6. Organization

  • The triple hatting of the deupty SRSG (RC/HC) is very difficult
  • The Deputy SRSG political controls UNPOL

7. Timeline for Deployments

  • very long lag between troops promised and troops delivered

  • transition period happens as the troops go up

    • expansion of civilian protection mandate recieve increasing more scruinty