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Stedman and Downs: Evaluating Issues in Peace Implementation [bc94fa61]

Tags: papers, un and global governance lecture 7

  • Stedman, Stephen John, and George Downs, eds. “Evaluating Issues in Peace Implementation.” In Ending Civil Wars: The Implementation of Peace Agreements. Boulder, Colo: Lynne Rienner, 2002.

  • Peace implementation differs based on peace environment, including three major factors

    1. Presence of spoilers
    2. Hostile neighboring states
    3. Resources available for extraction (resource curse)
  • UN has only succeeded in the least challenging environments

  • How do we measure success?

    • measurement by mandate achievement

      • can be worked around by setting modest mandate goals
      • nations can also offload impossible tasks to the UN
      • does not ask any questions about the appropriateness of the mandate

    • conflict reduction, disputant resolution, etc

      • variety of metrics can be evaluated
      • how/what is the appropriate ensemble
      • difficulty in ascribing a casual relationship to the mission

  • can success be measued by looking @ subgoals?

    • likely to be biased towards ascribing a clean casual relationship
    • i.e. human rights watch is more likely to say the failure of human rights causes problems

  • mission success as:

    • end of large scale violence
    • sustainable peace in wartime
  • certain regions are off limits (less in Asia, never in a P5 country, avoids civil war in countries with large armies)

  • issues with success

    • absense of pre-signed peace agreement
    • liklihood of spoilers
    • collapsed state
    • disposable natural resources
    • hostile neighboring states
    • wars of succession
  • conclusion: important to think about the metrics that we think of as "successful"