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- Duursma, Allard, et al.
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UN Peacekeeping at 75: Achievements, Challenges, and Prospects
- 2023
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Ingår i: International Peacekeeping. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1353-3312 .- 1743-906X. ; 30:4, s. 415-476
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This year marks the 75th anniversary of what the UN itself understands to be its first peacekeeping operation. It is therefore an appropriate time to reflect on the track record of UN peacekeeping in its efforts to try to maintain and realize peace and security. Moreover, this milestone invites us to ponder what lies ahead in the realm of peacekeeping. For this reason, this forum article brings together both academics and UN officials to assess the achievements and challenges of UN peacekeeping over the past 75 years. Through a dialogue among peacekeeping scholars and practitioners, we hope to identify current trends and developments in UN peacekeeping, as well as explore priorities for the future to improve the effectiveness of peacekeeping operations in terms of achieving their mandate objectives, such as maintaining peace, protecting civilians, promoting human rights, and facilitating reconciliation. This forum article is structured into six thematic sections, each shedding light on various aspects of UN peacekeeping: (1) foundational principles of UN peacekeeping - namely, consent, impartiality, and the (non-)use of force; (2) protection of civilians; (3) the primacy of politics; (4) early warning; (5) cooperation with regional organizations; and (6) the changing geopolitical landscape in which UN peacekeeping operates.
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- Gelot, Linnéa, Docent, 1978-
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African conflict prevention and peace-making : From early warning to early action
- 2021
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The main objective of this report is to analyse the key trends that are leading to changes in the African conflict prevention and management landscape. The report discusses four major trends in order to report on much-needed adjustments to external donor engagements with their conflict prevention and peace-making African partners.
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- Gelot, Linnéa, Docent, 1978-, et al.
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African security and global militarism
- 2019
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Ingår i: Conflict, Security and Development. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1467-8802 .- 1478-1174. ; 19:6, s. 521-542
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This Special Issue asks: what is the current place of militarism in relation to security where Africa is concerned? It aims to contribute to emerging debates interested in critical inquiry of the relation between militarism and security, and to explore its diverse articulations in African settings. We advance an international political sociological (IPS) approach to militarism in order to explore militarised security politics as a field of contested practices and logics. We discuss why this approach enables us to uncover the interconnected historical patterns and power relations in which practices and logics of security and militarism become linked and grounded in simultaneously local and transnational African settings.
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- Gelot, Linnéa, docent, 1978-
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Book Reviews
- 2023
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Ingår i: Yearbook on the African Union Volume 3 (2022). - Leiden : Brill Academic Publishers. - 9789004683075 - 9789004683082 ; , s. 249-250
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)
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- Gelot, Linnéa, Docent, 1978-
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Déradicalisation en Somalie : autorités traditionnelles et contre-insurrection
- 2020
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Rapport (refereegranskat)abstract
- Il est nécessaire de développer des processus de Désarmement,démobilisation, et réintégration (DDR) mettant l’accent sur les dimensions sociales de la réintégration, des programmes plus sensibles au contexte et qui reposent davantage sur l'appropriation locale.Afin de rendre le DDR adapté à la lutte contre les groupes islamistes armés, tels que Harakat Al-Shabaab Al-Mujahideen (ci-après AlShabaab), les autorités traditionnelles et d'autres acteurs de la société ont assumé des rôles importants dans le travail de déradicalisation.En raison d'une gouvernance insuffisante de la part des acteurs nationaux et internationaux dans les zones de réintégration des mouvements armés islamistes, les élites locales, les chefs de communautéet les autorités traditionnelles sont des intermédiaires essentiels pour les politiques de stabilisation.Les autorités traditionnelles ont un rôle important en tant que leadersd’opinion; elles influencent la volonté des réseaux et groupements claniques de soutenir la réintégration des anciens combattants etmembres non combattants d'Al-Shabaab.Les organisations internationales ne peuvent pas contrôler les récitsde déradicalisation des acteurs non étatiques locaux. Les autorités traditionnelles ne se contentent pas d’amplifier les récits de consolidationde la paix des organisations internationales.Le soutien de la société, les réseaux et les relations de parenté sont primordiaux pour la réinsertion des anciens combattants.
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- Gelot, Linnéa, Docent, 1978-
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Deradicalization as Soft Counter-insurgency : Distorted Interactions Between Somali Traditional Authorities and Intervening Organizations
- 2020
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Ingår i: Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1750-2977 .- 1750-2985. ; 14:2, s. 253-270
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article focusses on how traditional authorities (TAs) are involved in deradicalization practices as part of the counterinsurgency campaign in Somalia. Through a lens of hybridity, it traces and discusses the adaptive and unpredictable forms of local-global governance that have emerged. TAs fulfil a mediating role between international expectations and local sensibilities. With important variations, they have taken on a deradicalization identity. However, many dilemmas arise from their interactions that will force adjustments and adaptations on all concerned actors.
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- Gelot, Linnéa, Docent, 1978-, et al.
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Interpreting Somali Community Perspectives on African-led Interventions : Chapter 10
- 2021
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Ingår i: Researching the Inner Life of the African Peace and Security Architecture. - Leiden : Brill Academic Publishers. - 9789004466777 - 9789004467316 ; , s. 209-225
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter presents several ethical and methodological issues related to a research collaboration between a peace and development scholar from Sweden and a human rights defender from Somalia. The chapter offers a reflexive and practically oriented discussion of a project that draws on focus groups and interviews in order to research societal perspectives on the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM). It adds to the recent research on African interventionism in order to highlight the benefits of research collaboration and knowledge co-production. What sets this contribution apart from similar previous works is that the authors’ main aim is to share their insights regarding what the methodological choices they made together added to the overall analysis and results. They argue that their experience of research collaboration led to a number of ‘epistemic openings’, obtaining a fine-grained and comprehensive set of insights on the micro-governance of local perceptions about intervening actors and especially AMISOM. Moreover, it allows to capture multifaceted narratives about localised consequences of interventions.
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- Gelot, Linnéa, docent, 1978-, et al.
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Legitimation struggles in international organizations: the case of the African Union
- 2023
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Ingår i: Globalizations. - 1474-7731 .- 1474-774X. ; , s. 1-18
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- How do international organizations (IOs) and their proponents claim legitimacy, and how do their opponents undermine such legitimacy? This article develops a framework that accounts for the links between legitimation and delegitimation strategies and how they regularly produce ‘legitimation struggles’. Drawing on the case of the African Union between 2015–2020, the study goes beyond existing research in three ways. First, legitimation struggles are not simply related to input and output legitimacy but are deeply related to the social purpose of the organization. Second, legitimation struggles do not only involve IO representatives and member-states but are strengthened by a range of other non-state agents. Third, while discursive strategies are essential, legitimation struggles are reinforced when they are combined with behavioural or institutional legitimation strategies. Future research would do well to go beyond the current Western-centric bias and draw on our findings to investigate legitimation struggles under different conditions around the world.
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- Gelot, Linnéa, docent, 1978-, et al.
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Local Perceptions about Robust Protection of Civilians in UNMISS and AMISOM
- 2023
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Ingår i: Joint brief series: The Performance of Peacekeeping. - Stockholm : FBA, myndigheten för fred säkerhet och utveckling, Challenges Forum och Försvarshögskolan (eng: Folke Bernadotte Academy, the Challenges Forum International Secretariat, and the Swedish Defence University).. ; , s. 1-8
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Forskningsöversikt (refereegranskat)abstract
- IN THIS BRIEF, we investigate what forms of protection of civilians (PoC) provided bypeacekeepers that enjoy more support thanothers. We compare peacekeepers’ perceived level of proactive engagement, with the expectations and demands from local populations. We find that civilians who are at risk prefer peacekeepers who show resolve in protecting civilians, and their support is based on assessments of robustness.
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