Simic & O'Brien: Peacekeeper Babies

Tags: papers, un and global governance lecture 13

• Simić and O’Brien, “‘Peacekeeper Babies.’”
• Strategic strategy began to be adopted in 2008 on the status of sexual abuse in peacekeepign missions
• argues that the UN policy fails to distinguish between sexually explotive and consenual relationships
• first allegations of sexually explotive peacekeepers were from Mozambique, bosnia, cambodia, somalia, as well as west africa
• lack of reporting has hindered clear distinction of what forms sexual explotiation and abuse has taken
• UN began to address SEA in 2002
• explores the consequences of peacekeepers in the host state wrt to sexual relationships engaged while in the mission
  • then turns to the case of Marko Susnja - a boy fathered and abonded by a Bosnian peacekeeper