un and global governance lecture 8
Tags: UN and Global Governance
- conflict mitigation styles
- what are the trigger points for people to heighten their emotions?
- peace agreements and warring factions
Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding
- “action to identify and support structures which will strength and solidfy in order to avoid a relapse into conflict”
- instiutionalization of peacebuilding
- weak states are a threat to intl stability, more peacebuilding continues
- early peacebuilding
- authoritarian to democracy
- transitioning with democracy incrementally
- free market, who decides when a state is ready for liberalization
- elections are considered destabilizing, when should we not hold an election?
- UN has learned not to rush into an election
- transitioning with democracy incrementally
- is it realistic for peacekeepers to hold this role?
- can we have an expectation that a peacekeeper should help?
- peackeepers in mali and drc cannot physically protect civilians
- nhormative values of poc does not exist
- how much more can we adopt?
- how can peacekeeping be useful?
- early peacebuilding can be useful, but often still treated as a sequential
- conflicts that were off the radar of the SC, taking a look at conflicts that were slow burning, or short of war (burundi)
conflict & peace
- thinking in terms of johan galtung’s model of peace
- negative peace (absence of violence)
- positive peace (absense of all 3 forms of violence: structural, cultural, and direct)
- for a conflict, looking at the characteristics of behaviors
- peacebuilding, peacemaking, peacekeeping - trinity
- peace as a policy goal
- foundations of peace as more than just the absence of war
- sg policy committee in 2007 in thinking about how to reduce risks
- cannot be a boilerplate, afghanistan and peru are two different things
- ideally, peacebuilding needs to be prioritized and sequenced
- can then achieve its goals
- politics needs to be considered in peacebuilding
- ideally, peacebuilding needs to be prioritized and sequenced
- quick impact projects are not considered economic revitalization
- new deal - nationally owned peacebuilding plans
- peacebuilding used to be run by IO’s, which did not always know what was happening
- external drivers may not necessarily have the required participation
- how many and where was the new deal implemented?
- how do you create fully functional states in the matter of a decade?
- how do you ameloriate social issues?
- peacekeeping vs peacebuilding
- how to build durable peace
- building institutions?
- how to build durable peace
- state fragility is a recurring problem
- countries can relapse
- “idle youth” problem
- peacebuilding archiecture
- peacebuilding comission
- peacebuilding fund
- peacebuilding support office
- strategic entry points
- avoiding relapse into violence (guniea)
- protecting peacekeeping (liberia, sierra leone)
- quick statebuilding (yemen)
- supporting UN leadership (sierra leone)
- accompaniement (burundi)
critques
- examining the dimensions of peacekeeping
- how peacekeepers can be early peacebuilders
- definition of peacebuilding is ambigious and vague
- peacekeeping can construct the space for peacebuilding to occur
- democratic bias of instiution building, but not necessarily accepted or addressing the root causes
- too much focus on building instiutions