Peace operations seen from below : UN missions and local people /
Pouligny, Beatrice.
Peace operations seen from below : UN missions and local people / Bâeatrice Pouligny. - Bloomfield, CT : Kumarian Press, 2006. - xxv, 295 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-288) and index.
The new forms of peace operations -- International visions of war an d peace -- Local geography of UN peace operations -- The sphere of poli tical, military, and economic entrepreneurs -- Indigenous 'civil societ ies' -- 'Local' employees of UN operations -- Different interpretations of a peace operation's mandate -- Missions' (in)capacity to carry out their mandates -- Peacekeepers lost in complex environments -- The hist ory of relations with the outside world -- Figures of intervention -- F actors of mobilisation against the UN -- Ideas of 'legitimacy' and 'imp artiality' redefined by local conditions -- What local actors expect fr om the UN -- Highly volatile balance of power -- Neither 'indifferent' nor 'apathetic' : why local communities protect themselves from the pea cekeepers -- The limits of imposed 'procedural democracy' in post-war s ocieties -- The political non-sense of most economic reconstruction pro grams -- Ambiguities of peacekeepers' role in maintaining 'law and orde r' -- The forgotten dimensions of 'justice' and 'reconciliation' progra ms.
1565492242 (pbk.) 9781565492240 9781850658405 (pbk.)
2006-005799
United Nations--Peacekeeping forces.
Peacekeeping forces--Moral and ethical aspects.
Humanitarian assistance.
341.584
Peace operations seen from below : UN missions and local people / Bâeatrice Pouligny. - Bloomfield, CT : Kumarian Press, 2006. - xxv, 295 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-288) and index.
The new forms of peace operations -- International visions of war an d peace -- Local geography of UN peace operations -- The sphere of poli tical, military, and economic entrepreneurs -- Indigenous 'civil societ ies' -- 'Local' employees of UN operations -- Different interpretations of a peace operation's mandate -- Missions' (in)capacity to carry out their mandates -- Peacekeepers lost in complex environments -- The hist ory of relations with the outside world -- Figures of intervention -- F actors of mobilisation against the UN -- Ideas of 'legitimacy' and 'imp artiality' redefined by local conditions -- What local actors expect fr om the UN -- Highly volatile balance of power -- Neither 'indifferent' nor 'apathetic' : why local communities protect themselves from the pea cekeepers -- The limits of imposed 'procedural democracy' in post-war s ocieties -- The political non-sense of most economic reconstruction pro grams -- Ambiguities of peacekeepers' role in maintaining 'law and orde r' -- The forgotten dimensions of 'justice' and 'reconciliation' progra ms.
1565492242 (pbk.) 9781565492240 9781850658405 (pbk.)
2006-005799
United Nations--Peacekeeping forces.
Peacekeeping forces--Moral and ethical aspects.
Humanitarian assistance.
341.584