Whose Peace?
Local Ownership and United Nations Peacekeeping
Recent years have seen an increasing emphasis on local ownership in United Nations peacekeeping. Advocates assert that it boosts the legitimacy and sustainability of peacekeeping by helping to preserve the principles of self-determination and non-imposition in an activity that can contravene them. However, whether this assertion holds in practice has not been backed up by careful conceptual and empirical analysis.This book fills this gap by mapping the discourse, understandings, and operationalization of local ownership in UN peacekeeping, both from the perspective of the UN and local actors. Drawing on the case of the UN peacekeeping operati…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-251383-0
- EAN: 9780192513830
- Produktnummer: 21962978
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 240 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'620 KB
Über den Autor
Dr. Sarah von Billerbeck is a Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Reading. Her research focuses on UN peacekeeping, civil war and post-conflict reconstruction, the UN, institutional legitimacy, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. She previously worked for the UN peacekeeping mission in the DRC, the American Refugee Committee in Guinea, and the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia in Lebanon. She holds a DPhil from theUniversity of Oxford and previously taught at King's College London.
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