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un and global governance lecture 9

Tags: UN and Global Governance

  • interactions of host societies and external actors causes issues within peacebuilding
  • current inadequacies in peacebuilding, resources must be shifted to new ones
  • what is a civil society?
    • does a civil society exist? - peacekeeprs usually enter with an idea of what the society looks like
  • what are the expectations? what do the host societies expect these people to do?
  • AGE report talks about lack of funding leading to unmet expectations
    • host societies do not trust the UN
  • how long should the UN be in a region?
    • AGE report states that the UN should commit to long term peace building projects
    • Talentino -> international actors should make a meaningful impact and get out
      • is this framing incorrect? Afghanistan and Iraq
  • who needs to be brought into the loop?
    • AGE -> focused on more collaboration between the UN pillars
      • should also work with the international financial instiutions
        • World Bank, IMF, etc
  • How should we approach the range of social actors?
    • war torn societies are not lacking in structure, they simply have a different structure that may not be apparent to the western eye
  • is the binary of the bottom up approach and top down approach valid? does this binary hold?
    • local NGO’s may not exist
    • where does the local become the national? when it does it become the international?
    • when does NGO’s replace local capacity?
    • somalialand -> benefitted from sustained grassroot initatives
      • vs somalia -> largely top down
    • civil vs political binary?
      • depends on the situation -> civil socities are not untainted, oftentimes political organizations
      • hybrid notions of interaction
    • concerns about INGO’s and UN replacing state capacity?
  • tension between simple narratives and complex issues
    • simple narratives may tild the overall framing and moving it twards

religious actors in peacekeeping

  • andrea barkloy notre dame -
  • older work in the 90’s and 2000’s and comparative religious institutions in negotiations
  • latin america - rural catholic priests