un and global governance lecture 4

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?

Regulatory Frameworks

• International Humanitarian Law
• UN Mandates

PKO roles

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

focus on civilian protection

• 1999 studies show 90% of deaths on civilians

Range of POC Activities

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

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

Organization

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

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