The R2P, Protection of Civilians, and UN Peacekeeping Operations

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul D. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Final Section ◽  
Responsibility To Protect ◽  
Specific Reference ◽  
Peacekeeping Operations ◽  
Un Peacekeeping ◽  
Coupling Strategy ◽  
Key Policy ◽  
Policy Challenge ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter analyses the relationship between the two related concepts of the responsibility to protect (R2P) and the protection of civilians (POC) with particular emphasis on how their relationship has played out in the context of United Nations peacekeeping operations. It begins by providing an overview of the main similarities and differences between R2P and POC before moving on to examine various attempts to link the two concepts with specific reference to their application within UN peacekeeping operations. The final section analyses some of the main criticisms levelled against their linkage. The chapter concludes that a de-coupling strategy is unlikely to succeed, in part because POC can never be made completely apolitical and uncontroversial. As UN peacekeepers are called upon to operationalize both the R2P and POC agendas, a key policy challenge will be ensuring that the relationship between the two does not become counter-productive.

The Relationship between Contributors’ Domestic Abuses and Peacekeeper Misconduct in United Nations Peacekeeping Operations

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cale Horne ◽  
Kellan Robinson ◽  
Megan Lloyd
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Sexual Exploitation ◽  
Peacekeeping Operations ◽  
Military Forces ◽  
Un Peacekeeping ◽  
Original Dataset ◽  
United Nations Peacekeeping ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Recent research has begun to examine patterns of sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) perpetrated by peacekeepers deployed in United Nations (UN) peacekeeping operations (PKOs). Yet, SEA makes up only a fraction of credible allegations of misconduct by peacekeepers. In this article we explore the contours of misconduct in UN PKOs beyond SEA allegations. We argue that the behavior of military forces in their own countries should easily predict their behavior when deployed as part of UN PKOs, which are typically set in fragile, postconflict countries where civilians have minimal protections or legal recourse. Using an original dataset of misconduct in PKOs from 2009 to 2016, we find the behavior of PKO contributor states toward their own populations strongly and consistently predicts the behavior of these states’ military forces in UN PKOs. These findings have implications for the vetting, supervision, and composition of PKOs.

scholarly journals Thanatos and the Passion for Transformation

2006 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
GRACE JANTZEN †
Keyword(s):  
Final Section ◽  
World Order ◽  
Specific Reference ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The World ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Present World

In this paper I shall restrict myself to an exploration of three theoretical accounts of violence that have been offered in relation to religion, with specific reference to the question of how that violence could be transformed. What is the relationship between creativity and violence? How does newness enter the world, the newness that is needed if there is to be transformation of the violence of the present world order? None of the thinkers whose ideas of violence I shall consider has much to say about beauty or creativity. However, I shall argue that although beauty is ignored in their work, just as it has regularly been pushed to the margins in the Bible, andin the theology of Christendom, it still offers a place of resistance from which violence can be challenged. In the final section of this paper I shall begin an exploration of what that entails.

Mainstreaming the Responsibility to Protect in the United Nations System: Dilemmas, Challenges and Opportunities

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 154-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex J. Bellamy
Keyword(s):  
Capacity Building ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Responsibility To Protect ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Peacekeeping Operations ◽  
Political Work ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
United Nations System ◽  
Nations System ◽  
Different Parts

This article examines the challenges and opportunities for mainstreaming RtoP within the UN system and proposes a way forward. First, it examines what is meant by ‘mainstreaming’ in the UN context and progress made thus far. Second, it reviews some of the principal dilemmas that have arisen in different parts of the UN system, notably in relation to the system’s political work, humanitarian activities, peacekeeping operations, human rights promotion and protection, and capacity-building. Third, it considers the extent to which the Secretary-General’s vision accommodates these concerns. Finding that, to a great extent, it does, the final section offers some recommendations for moving forward which harnesses the basic principles for mainstreaming outlined by the Secretary-General and develops into four areas: incorporating an ‘atrocity prevention lens’, information sharing, capacity building and lessons learning.

scholarly journals UN Peacekeeping, Responsibility to Protect and Humanitarian Intervention

2020 ◽  
Vol 76 (1) ◽  
pp. 120-135
Author(s):  
S. Krishnan
Keyword(s):  
Use Of Force ◽  
International Community ◽  
Responsibility To Protect ◽  
Military Force ◽  
Peacekeeping Operations ◽  
Un Peacekeeping ◽  
Mass Atrocity ◽  
The Government ◽  
Atrocity Crimes ◽  
Armed Intervention

The question of armed intervention on behalf of the international community, in the internal affairs of a state against the wishes of the government of that state, in order to prevent widespread death or suffering among the population, is not a new one. Indeed Imperial Rome grappled with the same problems in Dalmatia and Judaea 2,000 years ago, as the international community does in those same regions today. How effective are peacekeeping operations in preventing and stopping violence? Is there an alternative to United Nations (UN) and regional peacekeeping operations? The practice of UN peacekeeping is evolving in many instances into robust peacemaking actions with a positive responsibility to protect (R2P) civilians within the field of operations. The R2P (and ‘responsibility while protecting’ (RwP)) concept sets out a key principle to enable the international community to prevent atrocity crimes. Since its emergence, however, there have been intense discussions over how to put the principle into practice. Some aspects of the concept remainf unclear, including how to undertake, as the last resort, the use of military force. These issues must be considered within the boundaries set by R2P which seek at all costs to avoid the use of force for other reasons than ceasing mass atrocity crimes. The use of force, therefore – including possible military action by the international community, given growing international reluctance to accept grave threats to peace and security, including mass crimes against defenceless populations – has to be thoroughly analysed and comprehended. This article presents an analysis of the development of civilian peacekeeping, its relevance in the field of conflict resolution and its autonomy from multidimensional peacekeeping, championed by the UN.

Book Review: UN Peacekeeping Operations in Somalia, 1992-1995: The Pakistani Perspective by Tughral Yamin

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Farhan Hanif Siddiqui
Keyword(s):  
International Peace ◽  
Peacekeeping Operations ◽  
Un Peacekeeping

Book Review: UN Peacekeeping Operations in Somalia, 1992-1995: The Pakistani Perspective by Tughral Yamin NUST Journal of International Peace & Stability 2019, Vol. II (2) Author : Farhan Hanif Siddiqui

UN Peacekeeping Operations and Successful Military Diplomacy: A Case Study of Pakistan

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bakare Najimdeen
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Security Council ◽  
United Nations Security Council ◽  
Policy Objective ◽  
Peacekeeping Operations ◽  
Un Peacekeeping ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Peacekeeping Missions ◽  
Military Diplomacy

Few years following its creation, the United Nations (UN) with the blessing of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) decided to establish the UN Peacekeeping Operations (UNPKO), as a multilateral mechanism geared at fulfilling the Chapter VII of the UN Charter which empowered the Security Council to enforce measurement to maintain or restore international peace and security. Since its creation, the multilateral mechanism has recorded several successes and failures to its credit. While it is essentially not like traditional diplomacy, peacekeeping operations have evolved over the years and have emerged as a new form of diplomacy. Besides, theoretically underscoring the differences between diplomacy and foreign policy, which often appear as conflated, the paper demonstrates how diplomacy is an expression of foreign policy. Meanwhile, putting in context the change and transformation in global politics, particularly global conflict, the paper argues that traditional diplomacy has ceased to be the preoccupation and exclusive business of the foreign ministry and career diplomats, it now involves foot soldiers who are not necessarily diplomats but act as diplomats in terms of peacekeeping, negotiating between warring parties, carrying their countries’ emblems and representing the latter in resolving global conflict, and increasingly becoming the representation of their countries’ foreign policy objective, hence peacekeeping military diplomacy. The paper uses decades of Pakistan’s peacekeeping missions as a reference point to establish how a nation’s peacekeeping efforts represent and qualifies as military diplomacy. It also presented the lessons and good practices Pakistan can sell to the rest of the world vis-à-vis peacekeeping and lastly how well Pakistan can consolidate its peacekeeping diplomacy.

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