{"title":"Youth Gangs and overcoming waithood in a United Nations Protection of Civilians Site in South Sudan","authors":"Diana Felix da Costa","doi":"10.1080/17502977.2023.2212993","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17502977.2023.2212993","url":null,"abstract":"This article investigates contestations over the roles and legitimacy of gangs within the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) Protection of Civilians (PoC) site in Bentiu, South Sudan. Drawing on qualitative interviews, it argues that ‘ gangs ’ represented the medium through which everyday struggles and processes of social contestations were negotiated between youth, elders, and protection actors. Prevailing narratives of gangs as violent criminal entities structured con fl ict with elders and protection actors, but to their a ffi liates, gangs provided protection, identity, belonging, responsibility, agency, and a route to overcome the limbo of ‘ waithood ’ and achieve social adulthood.","PeriodicalId":46629,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41367660","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Regional Favouritism, Elections, and Legacies of Inequality: The Dynamics of Education Redistribution in Post-War Burundi","authors":"Emily Dunlop","doi":"10.1080/17502977.2023.2212994","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17502977.2023.2212994","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Addressing education inequalities is important for institution building post-war. Yet, tensions exist in education development between persistent institutional legacies of inequality and changing ethnoregional power after violence. I analyse the distribution of national exam participation in post-war Burundi to explore this tension. I find that while marginalized groups have gained access to political power, inequalities in access to education have increased over time. I argue that redistributive education priorities are not directly able to overcome legacies of institutional inequality in the short- and long-term without policies that look holistically and beyond education access in resource poor-countries such as Burundi.","PeriodicalId":46629,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41919826","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What Difference Does it Make? UN Peacekeeping’s Impact on Civil-Military Relations in Troop-Contributing Countries","authors":"C. Harig","doi":"10.1080/17502977.2023.2206257","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17502977.2023.2206257","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Participating in UN peacekeeping missions used to be seen as an appropriate way to improve civil-military relations in countries where armed forces held undue political power. Nevertheless, a growing body of scholarship cautions that sending troops to increasingly coercive peacekeeping missions can contribute to a deterioration of civil-military relations. How can this variance in outcomes of peacekeeping deployments be explained? Taking stock of the existing academic debate on socialisation processes in peacekeeping and comparing the cases of India and Brazil, this article argues that military role conceptions are a key factor for understanding the effects of peacekeeping on troop-contributing countries.","PeriodicalId":46629,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44356307","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A new balance between ‘Local' and ‘National'? Libya's Failed Security Sector Reform","authors":"Nuri Yeşilyurt","doi":"10.1080/17502977.2023.2207885","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17502977.2023.2207885","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThis study argues that local ownership of Security Sector Reform (SSR) efforts may not be enough to bring stability to post-conflict countries, especially where the state is collapsed due to armed conflict. Based on the vertical integration approach, the study makes a conceptual distinction between local and national security providers/initiatives and highlights the importance of the balance-building role that international actors should play between them to achieve security and stability during post-conflict reconstruction. The research focuses on the Libyan experience between 2011 and 2014 as a single case study and relies mainly on United Nations (UN) documents and fieldwork-based reports.KEYWORDS: Security sector reformLibyalocal ownershipvertical integrationpost-conflict reconstruction Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by Turkish Scientific and Technological Research Council (TÜBİTAK) under Grant [number 1059B192000778].Notes on contributorsNuri YeşilyurtNuri Yeşilyurt is an associate professor of International Relations at the Faculty of Political Science, Ankara University (Turkey). He was a visiting researcher at the School of Politics and International Relations, University of Kent (UK) during 2021-2. He received BA and PhD degrees from Ankara University, and MPhil degree from the University of Cambridge. His publications are mainly focused on Turkish – Arab relations, Turkish Foreign Policy, and MENA politics and security. Dr. Yeşilyurt’s research at the University of Kent was funded by Turkish Scientific and Technological Research Council (TÜBİTAK) and focused on the problem of Security Sector Reform in post-uprising Libya.","PeriodicalId":46629,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding","volume":"96 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135642784","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Is the Future of Peacekeeping Female? Middle Powers, Liberal Internationalism and the 1325 Agenda","authors":"M. Zahar, Laurence Deschamps-Laporte","doi":"10.1080/17502977.2023.2214962","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17502977.2023.2214962","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT\u0000 At a time when the liberal international order is in crisis, several middle powers including Canada have taken the lead in pushing for the inclusion of women in peace operations under the banner of the 1325 agenda. This article assesses the implementation of the 1325 agenda in peacekeeping operations. We contend that the limited results of the agenda should primarily be attributed to the way liberal middle powers promoted it, rather than to opposition from conservative or less gendered-minded UN member states. We conclude by reflecting on the vulnerability of this agenda to changes in the dominant international ethos.","PeriodicalId":46629,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding","volume":"17 1","pages":"313 - 332"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41569243","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pragmatic Peacekeeping in a Multipolar Era: Liberal Norms, Practices, and the Future of UN Peace Operations","authors":"C. Dunton, M. Laurence, Gino Vlavonou","doi":"10.1080/17502977.2023.2217579","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17502977.2023.2217579","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT\u0000 As UN peacekeeping continues to move through a period of change and rupture, we conceptualise this turn as ‘pragmatic’ and take interest in its normative dimensions. In this introduction to a Special Issue, we take stock of scholarship on this pragmatic turn, arguing that it can be enriched through deeper engagement with theories of norms and practices, drawing especially on pragmatist approaches in the field of International Relations. We also argue that, while pragmatic peacekeeping may be less ideologically ambitious than earlier iterations of the practice, it still has a strong normative dimension.","PeriodicalId":46629,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding","volume":"17 1","pages":"215 - 234"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46915176","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Protecting Women from Violence in the United Nations Protection of Civilians Sites, South Sudan?","authors":"R. Ibreck","doi":"10.1080/17502977.2023.2215604","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17502977.2023.2215604","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46629,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48366733","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Failure of the Social Contract in Iraq: Iraqi Perspectives","authors":"Lucia Ardovini, D. O’Driscoll","doi":"10.1080/17502977.2023.2210732","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17502977.2023.2210732","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article focuses on the failure of the post-2003 social contract in Iraq. It relies on extensive primary data collected in all of Iraq's 19 provinces through Focus Groups and Online Surveys. It develops an analytical framework based on five core elements (corruption, services, security, economy, and governance), that can be applied to the assessment of the state of a social contract. The article argues that the steady decline of the social contract has fuelled Iraqis' resentment and discontent with the ruling elites and inspired their calls to move beyond sectarian divides towards addressing the most pressing issues facing Iraq.","PeriodicalId":46629,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding","volume":"17 1","pages":"415 - 433"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44306121","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Formal Adoption – Informal Subversion’: Limits of International Constitutional Assistance","authors":"M. Adhikari","doi":"10.1080/17502977.2023.2202490","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17502977.2023.2202490","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Peace processes involve reforming or rewriting constitutions as a pathway to establishing an inclusive state, often with international constitutional assistance (ICA). Examining Nepal’s post-conflict constitution-writing process, this article explores why ICA fails to deliver on inclusion. It argues that ICA’s prioritisation of formal aspects – inclusive institutional design and participatory process – makes it unable to influence informal politics through which elites informally subvert formal commitments on inclusive institutions in a bid to retain their power. This ‘formal adoption-informal subversion’ of inclusion-related commitments by elites is enabled by elites adopting four strategies, namely neglect, overwrite, trade-off, and exploit of formal commitments.","PeriodicalId":46629,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding","volume":"17 1","pages":"434 - 455"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44504020","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Pragmatic Peacekeeping’ in Practice: Exit Liberal Peacekeeping, Enter UN Support Missions?","authors":"J. Karlsrud","doi":"10.1080/17502977.2023.2198285","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17502977.2023.2198285","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Global politics impact on UN peacekeeping and four trends are worth noting. UN peacekeeping is being downscaled, there is less emphasis on human rights, more multilateral support to use UN peacekeeping in situations of counter-terrorism and counter-insurgency, and an increasing frequency of support to parallel regional and ad hoc coalitions. Pragmatic peacekeeping in practice comprise these four trends and will entail increasing support to regional and ad hoc coalitions, in the form of a new category of UN Support Missions. The article outlines key financial, legal, operational and accountability issues that emerge with UN Support Missions.","PeriodicalId":46629,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding","volume":"17 1","pages":"258 - 272"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45556790","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}