Whose peace? : local ownership and United Nations peacekeeping / Sarah B. K. von Billerbeck.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

von Billerbeck, Sarah B. K. (Sarah Birgitta Kanafani), 1979- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United Nations--Peacekeeping forces.

United Nations.

Peacekeeping forces.

Physical Description:

xiii, 205 pages : map ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017.

Summary:

"Recent years have seen an increasing emphasis on local ownership in United Nations peacekeeping. Advocates assert that it boosts the legitimacy and sustainability of peacekeeping by helping to preserve the principles of self-determination and non-imposition in an activity that can contravene them. However, whether this assertion holds in practice has not been backed up by careful conceptual and empirical analysis. This book fills this gap by mapping the discourse, understandings, and operationalization of local ownership in UN peacekeeping, both from the perspective of the UN and local actors. Drawing on the case of the UN peacekeeping operation in DR Congo and a number of other cases, it shows that despite its regular invocation of local ownership discourse, the UN operationalizes ownership in restrictive ways that are intended to protect the achievement of operational goals but which consequently limit self-determination and increase external imposition on the host country."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 Introduction 1

2 Conflicting Normative and Operational Imperatives: A Conceptual Framework 16

3 The Evolution and Discourse of Local Ownership 28

4 Understandings of Local Ownership 48

5 Operationalizations of Local Ownership: Practices 78

6 Operationalizations of Local Ownership: Actors 91

7 Local Ownership: A Discursive Tool? 114

8 Local Ownership: An Operational Obstacle? 127

9 Conclusion 146.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780198755708

0198755708

OCLC:

969422766