Academic Resources (2 Matches)
Source: Caty Clement and Adam C. Smith, eds., International Peace Institute and Geneva Centre for Security PolicyThis report addresses the implicit challenges faced during current UN efforts to integrate UN organizations and activities in the field and strengthen operational processes in peacebuilding and peacekeeping. It confronts the issue of the UN bureaucracy being "overmatched" by the complexity of context-specific and complicated environments. The paper identifies five key challenges relating to planning, leadership, organizational complexity, interagency cooperation, and exit strategy in order to better assess how the UN deals with complex situations.
Source: Beatrice Pouligny, International Peacekeeping 7, no. 3 This article highlights the principal ambiguities attached to the modes in which democracy is most often promoted. The main issues discussed include: a critique of imposed “procedural democracy” in post-war societies; the technical and procedural problems associated with the imposition of post-war elections; the lack of linkage to the stakes of the (re)definition of the social contract; the socio-economic aspects of political transformation in progress; the reframing of security problems; and issues of impunity and reconstructing collective identity. The author emphasizes the need for an increased awareness of the routines and complexities of the processes shaping institutions in the fluid conjoining of the social and political spheres. She concludes that internationally sponsored elections are just one step and not necessarily the most important one in the democratization process.
Source: United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA), Division for Public Administration and Development Management (DPADM)The Peacebuilding Portal supports multilateral collaboration and networking on conflict prevention and peacebuilding by offering local, national, and international stakeholders a web tool to strengthen their work with each other and the United Nations and better respond to issues surrounding human security, peacebuilding, and conflict. Particularly useful is the advanced search in peacebuilding, where organizations can be identified by theme and region. This can help to identify, for instance, community-based organizations working on peacebuilding and conflict management. The information can be broken down by country or geographic focus.
Source: West African Network for Peacebuilding (WANEP)WANEP is a network of civil society and community-based groups that specifically focus on peacebuilding. The website provides a number of publications and related news sources, as well as regional events on the issues and access to partners both locally and internationally.
Source: GroundviewsGroundviews is an independent Sri Lankan citizen journalism website that features blogs covering a range of ideas, opinions, and analyses on humanitarian issues, media freedom, human rights, peace, democratic governance, and constitutional reform. Citizens seeking to blog on the site must abide by the following principles: integrity; courage; accountability; knowledge; justice; and equality. Visitors will notice Groundviews’ unique platform, which uses modern technology to encourage and increase citizen participation, encourage communication and intra-national dialogue, and enhance professional journalism.
Policy Analysis and Practitioner Documents (View All 7 Matches)
Source: Leonardo Morlino, Fundación para las Relaciones Internacionales y el Diálogo ExteriorThis paper attempts to assess whether regimes between authoritarianism and democracy are hybrids or in transition. The main topics covered include: “quantitative terms of democratisation”; pinpointing “the pertinent analytic dimensions, starting with definitions of the terms ‘regime’, ‘authoritarianism’ and ‘democracy’”; a typology of hybrid regimes; and a number of suggestions in response to the question posed in the title. The paper concludes with three main arguments on the importance of functioning institutions, the need for clearer terminology in these processes, and the importance of bolstering institutions in states even prior to these states being considered democracies per se.
Source: Sabine Kurtenbach, German Institute of Global and Area StudiesThis paper attempts to explain problems in post-conflict societies by connecting them to the interdependency and interaction of the three-fold transformation to democracy, market economy, and peace assumed in liberal peacebuilding paradigms. The author states that the following four processes affect the transformation process: the effect of the international system on the country’s society; the country’s social, political, and social foundation; legacies of violence; and peacebuilding initiatives across the country. To demonstrate this point, she examines liberal peacebuilding processes in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Guatemala. She concludes that problems in post-conflict countries derive largely from fractures and continuities encountered during the three-fold transformation process.
Source: Roland Paris and Timothy D. Sisk, International Peace InstituteThis report summarizes the research findings of the Research Partnership on Postwar Statebuilding (RPPS), a collaborative research project of 13 scholars from six countries who examined the processes and dilemmas of statebuilding. Primary issues include: the evolution from peacebuilding to statebuilding; definitions as well as types of contradictions and dilemmas in statebuilding; means of managing these dilemmas; and suggestions on sustainable statebuilding and “successive missions.” The authors argue that identifying lessons learned from previous statebuilding missions is not sufficient for improving future missions. Instead, the report concludes that an increased awareness and analysis of the contradictions and dilemmas in statebuilding is a key first step to improving statebuilding operations.
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