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un and global governance lecture 10

Tags: UN and Global Governance

gustavo

  • trial and error on developing better tools of dealing with peace in conflict
  • extension of state building
  • peacekeeping as an extension of government
  • peacekeeping saw as a panacea
    • mandates became a christmas tree
  • burundi and peacebuilding
  • 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

burundi

  • most successful with hybrid peace engagements
  • types of activities and outreach the UN has done has not translated

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