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un and global governance lecture 9 [6cc6cb17]

Tags: UN and Global Governance

  • interactions of host societies and external actors causes issues within peacebuilding
  • current inadequacies in peacebuilding, resources must be shifted to new ones

  • what is a civil society?

    • does a civil society exist? - peacekeeprs usually enter with an idea of what the society looks like
  • what are the expectations? what do the host societies expect these people to do?

  • AGE report talks about lack of funding leading to unmet expectations

    • host societies do not trust the UN

  • how long should the UN be in a region?

    • AGE report states that the UN should commit to long term peace building projects

    • Talentino -> international actors should make a meaningful impact and get out

      • is this framing incorrect? Afghanistan and Iraq

  • who needs to be brought into the loop?

    • AGE -> focused on more collaboration between the UN pillars

      • should also work with the international financial instiutions

        • World Bank, IMF, etc

  • How should we approach the range of social actors?

    • war torn societies are not lacking in structure, they simply have a different structure that may not be apparent to the western eye

  • is the binary of the bottom up approach and top down approach valid? does this binary hold?

    • local NGO's may not exist

    • where does the local become the national? when it does it become the international?
    • when does NGO's replace local capacity?

    • somalialand -> benefitted from sustained grassroot initatives

      • vs somalia -> largely top down

    • civil vs political binary?

      • depends on the situation -> civil socities are not untainted, oftentimes political organizations
      • hybrid notions of interaction
    • concerns about INGO's and UN replacing state capacity?

  • tension between simple narratives and complex issues

    • simple narratives may tild the overall framing and moving it twards

1. religious actors in peacekeeping

  • andrea barkloy notre dame -
  • older work in the 90's and 2000's and comparative religious institutions in negotiations
  • latin america - rural catholic priests