Violating Peace

Jasmine-Kim Westendorf

Description

Jasmine-Kim Westendorf's discomforting book investigates sexual misconduct by military peacekeepers and abuses perpetrated by civilian peacekeepers and non-UN civilian interveners. Based on extensive field research in Bosnia, Timor-Leste, and with the UN and humanitarian communities, Violating Peace uncovers a brutal truth about peacebuilding as Westendorf investigates how such behaviors affect the capacity of the international community to achieve its goals related to stability and peacebuilding, and its legitimacy in the eyes of local and global populations.As Violating Peace shows, when interveners perpetrate sexual exploitation and abuse, they undermine the operational capacity of the international community to effectively build peace after civil wars and to alleviate human suffering in crises. Furthermore, sexual misconduct by interveners poses a significant risk to the perceived legitimacy of the multilateral peacekeeping project, and the UN more generally, with ramifications for the nature and dynamics of UN in future peace operations.Westendorf illustrates how sexual exploitation and abuse relates to other challenges facing UN peacekeeping, and shows how such misconduct is deeply linked to the broader cultures and structures within which peacekeepers work, and which shape their perceptions of and interactions with local communities. Effectively preventing such behaviors is crucial to global peace, order, and justice. Violating Peace thus identifies how policies might be improved in the future, based on an account of why they have failed to date.

Sujets

• Sociologie, société et politique
• Peacekeeping
• Gender studies

Informations

• Publié par: Cornell University Press
• Date de parution: 15 mars 2020
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781501748073
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Violating Peace

ViolatingPeace

Sex,Aid,andPeacekeeping

Jasmine-KimWestendorf

Cornell University Press IthacaandLondon

Copyright©2020byJasmine-KimWestendorf

Allrightsreserved.Exceptforbriefquotationsinareview,thisbook,or parts thereof, must not be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher. For information, address Cornell University Press, Sage House, 512 East State Street, Ithaca, New York 14850. Visit our website at cornellpress.cornell.edu.

Firstpublished2020byCornellUniversityPress

PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica

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It’s hard to be in the middle of a war and keep the moral values you brought with you. War changes people. And some peacekeepers don’t have any moral values to start with. Bosnianrespondentduringinterview

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ListofAbbreviationsxi

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1.TheHistoryandNatureofSexualMisconduct in Peace Operations20

2.SexualExploitationandAbuseinBosniaandTimor-Leste55

3.MakingMattersWorse:TheLong-TermImpacts of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse72

4.LegitimacyinCrisis:TheImpactsofSexual Misconduct on Capacity and Credibility103

Conclusion:OneProblemamongMany?AnIntegrated Response to Sexual Exploitation and Abuse134

Notes167

Bibliography193

Index213

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Icouldnothavewrittenthisbookwithoutthesupportofmanypeople and the generosity of those who shared their time, expertise, recollections, and feedback with me. I am deeply indebted to the many people who agreed to be interviewed as part of this project and without whom this book would never have been possible. I am especially grateful to Louise Searle, formerly of the Humanitarian Advisory Group (HAG), who partnered with me on the project in its early stages, including by joining me on eld research trips to Timor-Leste and Sarajevo and conducting the interviews in Geneva. HAG also supported the project in other critical ways: the excellent Josie Flint came with us to Timor-Leste to assist with interviews, and Kate Sutton facilitated a work- shop with policymakers and relevant scholars in Canberra in 2016 to test my initial conclusions. TheeldresearchforthisbookwasfundedbyagrantfromtheLa Trobe University Transforming Human Societies Research Focus Area. I am particularly grateful to Katie Holmes, who led the Research Focus