United Nations Constitutional Assistance

2020 ◽  
pp. 225-337
Author(s):  
Vijayashri Sripati
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Investor Protections ◽  
Bretton Woods Institutions ◽  
Nations Development

This chapter conceptualizes UNCA as an ‘institution’ or ‘established practice.’ Towards this end, it maps out UNCA’s use to produce the Western liberal constitution, conceptualized as a rule of law/development strategy (discussed in Chapter 5) from 1989-2018 in Asia, Asia-Pacific, Africa, Eastern Europe, the Caribbean and Indian Ocean regions and Latin America. In this way, UNCA’s use in the post-conflict and development assistance contexts is covered. This chapter also covers the five UNCA-ITA projects, explaining how UNCA gave rise to and governed ITA’s role. The role of UN Family members such as the Bretton Woods Institutions and the United Nations Development Programme in shaping constitutional content is underscored. This chapter tabulates the constitutional commonalities produced by UNCA: the common constitutional provisions in all UNCA-recipients-states (e.g., constitutional supremacy; foreign investor protections, and anti-corruption commissions). On this basis it concludes that the UN promotes a one-size-fits-all model in all states, conflict-torn and stable.

Promoting Democratic Governance and Preventing the Recurrence of Conflict: The Role of the United Nations Development Programme in Post-Conflict Peace-Building

2002 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 555-586 ◽  
Author(s):  
CARLOS SANTISO
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Central America ◽  
Development Programme ◽  
Democratic Governance ◽  
United Nations Development Programme ◽  
Peace Building ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Nations Development

Promoting democracy and strengthening good governance have become core components of post-conflict peace-building initiatives of the United Nations (UN). An often overlooked dimension of the analysis of UN peace support operations has been the crucial role played by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) at the critical juncture linking peacekeeping to sustainable development. UN peace operations in Central America over the last decade have pioneered the organisation's involvement in the uncharted territory of post-conflict peace building. UNDP's Central American experience was the first step in the organisation's evolution away from providing traditional development assistance, towards playing an active and openly political role in post-conflict democracy building and governance reform. This new role of the UNDP has had dramatic repercussions on its mandate, administrative structures, corporate policies and operational strategies. The current institutional renewal of UNDP has its roots in its endorsement of democratic governance as essential dimensions of its mandate to promote sustainable human development. This article assesses the significance, promises and dilemmas of the governance agenda for UNDP and analyses the scope, nature and institutionalisation of democracy and governance programmes within UNDP, using Central America as a case study. It argues that the future of UNDP democracy assistance will largely depend on how successful it is at resolving the inherent tensions between democracy promotion and national sovereignty, while retaining its multilateral approach to peace and democracy.

scholarly journals Using Communication Strategies to Operationalise United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Claire Bibby
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Security Council ◽  
United Nations Security Council ◽  
Security Council Resolution ◽  
Communication Strategy ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Peace And Security ◽  
Barriers And Opportunities

United Nations Security Council resolution 1325 Women, Peace and Security was adopted by the United Nations Security Council in 2000 and is founded on the principle of building and maintaining sustainable peace and security. Importance is placed on communication with women to implement the resolution and the role of women as leaders, not victims, in the peace and security discussion. This study researches the New Zealand Police approach to implementing resolution 1325 in the Asia-Pacific region. It examines the role of police communication in enabling the voice of women to be heard in decision making to prevent conflict, conflict resolution and in post conflict situations. In doing so, it highlights barriers and opportunities for NZ Police personnel communicating with people of a different gender to their own. This research provides evidence of the value of studying NZ Police communication approaches to inform an evidence-based communication strategy that benefits the agency and its personnel implementing the resolution.

scholarly journals The creative economy as a versatile policy script: exploring the role of competing intergovernmental organizations

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 502-519 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonios Vlassis ◽  
Christiaan De Beukelaer
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Creative Economy ◽  
Policy Agenda ◽  
Intergovernmental Organizations ◽  
Political Analysis ◽  
Ability To Act ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Nations Development ◽  
Economy Policy

Since the early 2000s, several intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) have advanced the idea that the creative economy could be a ‘feasible development option’. The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) took the lead by preparing the 2008 and 2010 Creative Economy Reports, whereas the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and UNDP executed the 2013 report. The article – based on an actor-centred institutionalism – explores the role IGOs have played in the promulgation of the ‘creative economy’ policy agenda. Through a socio-political analysis, we reveal how IGOs act and interact with each other vis-à-vis ‘creative economy’ policy agenda making. On one hand, the article seeks to highlight why and how IGOs include the creative economy within their priorities and use the concept, influence or challenge its orientations. On the other hand, it aims to examine their ability to act in common in order to globalize the ‘creative economy’ policy agenda and create new forms of cultural industries governance.

Female rebels and United Nations peacekeeping deployments

2021 ◽  
pp. 001083672110471
Author(s):  
Marius Mehrl ◽  
Christoph Dworschak
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Security Council ◽  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
Multivariate Regression ◽  
Regression Models ◽  
Empirical Support ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Peace And Security ◽  
Growing Body

How does the presence of female rebel combatants during conflict influence the likelihood of United Nations post-conflict peacekeeping deployment? While past literature on peacekeeping emphasizes the role of conflict attributes and security council interests, only few studies investigate the importance of belligerent characteristics. We argue that, because dominant gender stereotypes paint women as peaceful, female rebel combatants lead domestic and international audiences to perceive conflicts in which they fight as more severe. Given that recent UN resolutions and mission mandates align with these stereotypes, this in turn, causes the UN to intervene and deploy peacekeepers. Multivariate regression models drawing on a global sample of UN post-conflict missions provide empirical support for our hypothesis. Our findings add to the growing body of literature emphasizing the role of women in combat roles, and contribute to the discussion on the UN’s Women, Peace, and Security agenda.

scholarly journals The role of metaphor in shaping the identity and agenda of the United Nations: The imagining of an international community and international threat

2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 393-412 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa J. McEntee-Atalianis
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Well Being ◽  
International Community ◽  
Institutional Power ◽  
International Diplomacy ◽  
The Common ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
International Threat

This article examines the representation of the United Nations in speeches delivered by its Secretary-General (SG). It focuses on the role of metaphor in constructing a common ‘imagining’ of international diplomacy and legitimizing an international organizational identity. The SG legitimizes the organization, in part, through the delegitimization of agents/actions/events constructed as threatening to the international community and to the well-being of mankind. It is a desire to combat the forces of menace or evil which are argued to motivate and determine the organizational agenda. This is predicated upon an international ideology of humanity in which difference is silenced and ‘working towards the common good’ is emphasized. This is exploited to rouse emotions and legitimize institutional power. Polarization and antithesis are achieved through the employment of metaphors designed to enhance positive and negative evaluations. The article further points to the constitutive, persuasive and edifying1 power of topic and situationally motivated metaphors in speech-making.

Financial Fragility and Crisis Union in the Asia-Pacific Region

2009 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 1850165 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Strobel
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Decision Problem ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Financial Fragility ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Asia Pacific Region ◽  
Financial Systems ◽  
The Common ◽  
Common Perception

We examine whether core ASEAN+3 countries might be interested in joining a financial "crisis union," allowing for the role of uncertainty by constructing a stylized real options model of the decision problem involved. We calibrate that model by proxying financial fragility with commonly used bank asset ratios and observe that, according to our criteria, a wider financial crisis union might be more attainable the more encompassing that grouping is; however, our results also reinforce the common perception of pervasive, possibly prohibitive, heterogeneity in these countries' banking and financial systems.

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