‘MINUSTAH is doing positive things just as they do negative things’: nuanced perceptions of a UN peacekeeping operation amidst peacekeeper-perpetrated sexual exploitation and abuse in Haiti

IF 1.1 Q3 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Carla King, Greg Ferraro, Sandra C. Wisner, Stéphanie Etienne, Sabine Lee, S. Bartels
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ABSTRACT Haiti’s instability at the turn of the millennium demanded unprecedented changes towards community-based peacekeeping strategies. While deemed successful by some in reducing actualised violence, the UN Peace Support Operation, MINUSTAH, was wrought with allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) and mired by the inadvertent introduction of cholera. To understand the host community’s experiences with MINUSTAH, data was collected around seven UN bases from 10 locations in Haiti between June and August 2017. We find that Haitian perceptions on reporting, justice and responsibility for SEA are in juxtaposition with MINUSTAH’s efforts towards stabilisation and security. While participants identified positive perceptions of MINUSTAH that aligned with the novel community violence reduction strategy employed in Haiti, outstanding concerns around SEA remain. We recommend the UN addresses its environment of impunity, alters its practices and policies to be victim/survivor-centred and improve transparency and communication with host communities. The UN must make the systemic changes necessary to address impunity or provide reparations for peacekeeper-perpetrated SEA.
“联海稳定团正在做积极的事情,就像他们做消极的事情一样”:在海地维和人员犯下的性剥削和性虐待中,对联合国维和行动的微妙看法
海地在世纪之交的不稳定局势要求对以社区为基础的维和战略进行前所未有的变革。尽管一些人认为联海稳定团在减少实际暴力方面取得了成功,但它仍受到性剥削和性虐待指控的困扰,并因无意中引入霍乱而陷入困境。为了了解东道国社区在联海稳定团的经历,2017年6月至8月期间,在海地10个地点的7个联合国基地收集了数据。我们发现,海地对SEA的报告、正义和责任的看法与联海稳定团争取稳定和安全的努力是一致的。虽然与会者确定了联海稳定团与海地采用的新型社区暴力减少战略相一致的积极看法,但围绕SEA的突出关切仍然存在。我们建议联合国解决其有罪不罚的环境,改变其做法和政策,以受害者/幸存者为中心,提高透明度并与收容社区沟通。联合国必须进行必要的系统改革,以解决有罪不罚问题,或为维和人员犯下的SEA提供赔偿。
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