un and global governance lecture 10 [5b9ab18e]

peacekeeping saw as a panacea

• mandates became a christmas tree

peacebuilding archiecture

• what are we going to do in burundi?

• PKO with local affairs run by NY

  • dealing with land reparations and returnees
• DDR of FML and coup troops
• UN used every single tool until 2010, where it no longer became successful
• elections in 2010 was fairly workable, and everyone expected burundi to have worked
• unresolved problems of returnees and the Arusha agreement
• burundi has moved from success to failures in the last 5 years

• what have learned?

  • concept matters

    • peacebuilding is much broader than simple DDR, "twin resolutions" of 2016

      • twin resolutions broke with linarity, conflict resolution
    • rather than have ticking boxes of needs ("X ministries, Y police officiers"), need to figure out how to the conceptual understanding of the sustained peace wrt to armies and all

  • the charter weighs heavy

    • anything that doesn't follow the charter is seen as counterproductive

  • how to transfer skills, not recieved actions

    • faciltating processes as an external actor

  • better recruitment

    • UN recruits people who know the UN system

      • but not necessarily about the local environs

  • everyone knows what drives the conflict, but few people know what sustains peace

    • too many things are done based on inertia

      • ex: SSR and DDR from SA applied to other places
      • theory of change -> assumption of what drives changes

      • concept of strategic patience

        • how far do you tolerate

  • liberal peacebuilding

    • problematic understanding of how to normalize peacebuilding within ideas

    • christmas is over

      • overprepartion for missions
  • our burcracies need to change