Intrusive impartiality : learning, contestation, and practice change in United Nations peace operations / Marion Laurence.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Laurence, Marion (Marion Lorraine Bowlby), author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United Nations--Peacekeeping forces.

United Nations.

United Nations--Peacekeeping forces--Africa, Sub-Saharan.

Peace-building.

Peace-building--Africa, Sub-Saharan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]

Summary:

Impartiality is a central norm in United Nations peace operations that has long been associated with passive monitoring of cease-fires and peace agreements. In the 21st century, however, its meaning has been stretched to allow for a range of forceful, intrusive, and ideologically prescriptive practices. In this book, Marion Laurence explains how these new ways of being 'impartial' emerge, how they spread within and across missions, and how they become institutionalized across UN peace operations. In doing so, Laurence sheds light on controversial changes in peacekeeping practice and provides an innovative framework for studying authority and change in global governance.

Contents:

Introduction

Norms and practices in UN peace operations

Permission from New York : top-down pressures and their impact in the field

Protection, peacebuilding, and change in Sierra Leone

Elections and air strikes : practice change in Côte d'Ivoire

Experiments in practice change : the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Conclusion

Appendix: Interpretive methods for studying practice change.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on September 27, 2024).

ISBN:

9780197747605

0197747604

9780197747582

0197747582

OCLC:

1457974056