un and global governance lecture 13

Tags: UN and Global Governance

presentation planning

• small summary
• background and history of sexual violence
  • how it became popular
• issues with papers and methodology
  • statistics here implies intercorrelation under casual networks
    • everything is correlated and bet on sparsity principals
• paper one pager
  • The mechanics of the mission entails several second order effects
    • interactions with local populations
      • sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) - Karim & Beardsly
        • Finds that reductions of SEA require “cultivation of value for gender equality among all peacekeepers”
      • peacekeeper babies - Simić and O’Brien
        • First became a concern in Liberia and East Timor
        • Zero tolerance policy remains muddly and makes little distinction between exploitative and consensual relationships.
    • host government
      • taxation and pay
        • Host governments are often in a weak position, and UN tax exemptions “undermines the building of a viable local revenue authority”
        • Because the UN often pays more than civil service positions, a “brain drain” may occur from civil servant roles towards UN ones
      • question of whether the government exists or not
        • Lack of sweage and sanitation systems can magnify issues the UN brings, such as cholera - Lemay-Hébert
    • these effects have a direct impact on the success of the mission
      • technocratic fixes tend to ignore interactions with the local populace
      • engagements with the host government are shallow and often act as the UN is not on the ground
      • these effects are not necessarily “unintented”, but rather delayed and not considered at the start of the mission

• Second order effects abound:
  • Sexual exploitation and abuse of local populations by peacekeepers began to be addressed in 2002

presentation

• will talk about uninteded and second order effects of UN peacekeepers
• focuses on the mechanics of peacekeeping troops
• Will be split into talking about the UN’s interactions with local populations, with the host government and broader takeaways

adam day

• political economy lens
  • understands how the impact of interventions in the systems in the markets
• modern conflicts are driven by greed
  • greed vs grievance (jake sherman - greed and greivance)
  • paul collier - greed explains better than grievance, economic models predict better than political ones
    • binary does not necessarily exist
    • granularity of nation level does not actually tell us very much
• shift in scope and ambition and usage of force in peacekeeping
• oversight of peace agreements to building of state authority and capacity building
• model of conflict where the state needs to be extended
• give war a chance - luttwak
  • elite bargins project
• peacebuilding and authoritarianism
• statebuilding ideaology - susan woodward
• elite capture of peacebuilding
• severene autessare - the trouble with the congo