‘They Were Going to the Beach, Acting like Tourists, Drinking, Chasing Girls’: A Mixed-Methods Study on Community Perceptions of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse by UN Peacekeepers in Haiti

IF 0.6 Q3 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Stability-International Journal of Security and Development Pub Date : 2020-05-21 DOI:10.5334/sta.766

Carla King, Sabine Lee, S. Bartels

引用次数: 16

Abstract

The United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) has been marred by reports of sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) perpetrated against local women/girls. However, there is very limited empirical evidence on the community’s perceptions regarding these sexual interactions. Through a mixed-methods approach, this article examines community experiences and perceptions of SEA, with three prominent themes arising: peacekeepers as tourists, peacekeepers as sexual exploiters and abusers, and peacekeepers as ideal partners. Uruguayan (n = 107, 28.1 per cent) and Brazilian personnel (n = 83, 21.8 per cent) were most commonly named in SEA narratives. We explore how these perceptions of MINUSTAH peacekeepers undermine the purpose and legitimacy of UN peace support operations, and propose strategies to prevent and address peacekeeper-perpetrated SEA.

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“他们去海滩，像游客一样，喝酒，追逐女孩”:一项关于社区对联合国驻海地维和人员性剥削和性虐待看法的混合方法研究

联合国海地稳定特派团(联海稳定团)受到关于对当地妇女/女孩进行性剥削和性虐待的报告的损害。然而，关于社区对这些性互动的看法的经验证据非常有限。通过混合方法，本文研究了社区经验和对SEA的看法，其中出现了三个突出主题:维和人员是游客，维和人员是性剥削者和施虐者，维和人员是理想的合作伙伴。乌拉圭人(n = 107, 28.1%)和巴西人(n = 83, 21.8%)是SEA叙述中最常提到的。我们探讨了对联海稳定团维和人员的这些看法是如何破坏联合国和平支持行动的目的和合法性的，并提出了预防和解决维和人员犯下的SEA的战略。

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Stability-International Journal of Security and Development INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS-

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3.40

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审稿时长

11 weeks

期刊介绍： Stability: International Journal of Security & Development is a fundamentally new kind of journal. Open-access, it publishes research quickly and free of charge in order to have a maximal impact upon policy and practice communities. It fills a crucial niche. Despite the allocation of significant policy attention and financial resources to a perceived relationship between development assistance, security and stability, a solid evidence base is still lacking. Research in this area, while growing rapidly, is scattered across journals focused upon broader topics such as international development, international relations and security studies. Accordingly, Stability''s objective is to: Foster an accessible and rigorous evidence base, clearly communicated and widely disseminated, to guide future thinking, policymaking and practice concerning communities and states experiencing widespread violence and conflict. The journal will accept submissions from a wide variety of disciplines, including development studies, international relations, politics, economics, anthropology, sociology, psychology and history, among others. In addition to focusing upon large-scale armed conflict and insurgencies, Stability will address the challenge posed by local and regional violence within ostensibly stable settings such as Mexico, Brazil, Russia, India, Indonesia and elsewhere.