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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.
(författare)
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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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- Gelot, Linnéa, Docent, 1978-, et al.
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Navigating APSA Research from a Global Studies Perspective : Chapter 12
- 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. 247-268
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter sketches a possible way of integrating different approaches to the study of APSA into one field of enquiry, namely global studies. This offers a meaningful heuristic, both in terms of epistemology and methodological implications. First, the chapter appraises of the conceptual contributions that the authors of this edited collection have developed. For analytical reasons, this is organised along a focus on actors, practices, and narratives. Second, the chapter discusses how a specific version of global studies – developed since the beginning of this century mainly in the field of academic teaching – values and draws together the plurality of these proposals. Third, the chapter recapitulates the innovative methods for the study of APSA, introduced in the chapters of this edited volume. Finally, it proposes four overarching methodological considerations that are central to the field of global studies: comparison, historicity, reflexivity, and engagement.
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- Gelot, Linnéa, Docent, 1978-, et al.
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Pragmatic eclecticism, neoclassical realism and post-structuralism : reconsidering the African response to the Libyan crisis of 2011
- 2018
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Ingår i: Third World Quarterly. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0143-6597 .- 1360-2241. ; 39:12, s. 2334-2353
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article analyses the role of the African Union (AU) during the Libyan crisis of 2011. It addresses the question of why the AU has not played a central conflict manager role in that crisis. Inspired by pragmatic eclecticism, we take a theoretical detour to answer this question. Through a neoclassical realist and post-structuralist lens, we provide a novel eclectic reconsideration of the crisis response and we also highlight shared ground between both perspectives. Our theoretical and empirical discussion moves along the categories ‘primacy of power’, ‘discourses’ and ‘leader images’. We highlight the ability of dominant powers to influence the unfolding of events with material forms of power but also through immaterial ones such as the advancement of a dominant discourse on a cosmopolitan liberal order related to the responsibility-to-protect.
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- Gelot, Linnéa, Docent, 1978-, et al.
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They are from within us : CVE brokerage in South-central Somalia
- 2019
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Ingår i: Conflict, Security and Development. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1467-8802 .- 1478-1174. ; 19:6, s. 563-582
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article explores how societal actors in Somalia take part in a transnational politics of countering/preventing violent extremism (CVE/PVE) through a political sociological approach to militarisation. We argue that the transnational politics of CVE represents an extension of global militarism by some states, institutions, donors and brokers. CVE works to adapt global militarism and to reconfigure the global-local relationships that sustain it. We explore the roles and influence of local ‘CVE brokers’ in deradicalisation efforts in South-central Somalia. They inadvertently merge the counter-terrorism approach to Somali people, values and territory with non-military means. We show that their key practices – co-ordination, translation and alignment – advance, but also disrupt, alter and transform CVE policy objectives.
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- Gelot, Linnéa, docent, 1978-, et al.
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Traditional authorities as both curse and cure : the politics of coping with violent extremism in Somalia
- 2024
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Ingår i: Conflict, Security and Development. - 1467-8802 .- 1478-1174. ; , s. 1-23
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper explores community perceptions about traditional authorities’ roles during the disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR) of former combatants. We have selected the case of Somalia, where both government institutions and traditional authorities have partnered with international actors and institutions, as well as non-governmental organisations (NGOs), to prevent and counter violent extremism (P/CVE). International actors have related to traditional authorities based on the assumption that these actors wield a kind of social power that facilitates the reintegration of former members of the violent extremist organisation al-Shabaab. Based on mixed methodology research we explain social reintegration in Somalia from the community perspective, and find that P/CVE programmes are expressive of co-optation of traditional authorities. We make the case that ‘risk coping’ helps explain why a majority of civilians prefer the government-led formal reintegration pathway of ex-combatants to the traditional authorities pathway. We conclude by discussing the implications that this has for NGOs/INGOs active in this P/CVE sector.
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- Hansen, Stig Jarle, et al.
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Anatomy of Counter-Jihad
- 2019
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Ingår i: War and Peace in Somalia. - : Oxford University Press. - 9780190947910 - 9780190055929
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This chapter considers how Al-Shabaab messaging can be best countered, drawing on field research in Mogadishu and Baidoa, focusing on the area of Bay/Bakool. It shows that lack of security, opportunity, and justice, combined with clan conflicts create conditions that Al-Shabaab can exploit. In Bay/Bakool, the group is seen as having semi-territorial control; in other words, a fairly regular presence despite intermittent deployments or patrols by forces of the Federal Government of Somalia and African Union Mission in Somalia. Thus, the involvement of sheikhs and clan elders is all the more important as they wield considerable influence in communities and can strengthen efforts of countering violent extremism (CVE). A wide, inclusive approach is recommended, drawing upon a combination of different types of religious leaders, in which Sufi, Shafi'i, and Quietist/non-political Wahhabism are represented.
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- Olsson, Elizabeth, 1980, et al.
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Teaching Academic Literacies in international relations: towards a pedagogy of practice
- 2024
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Ingår i: Teaching in Higher Education. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1356-2517 .- 1470-1294. ; 29:2, s. 471-488
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Academic Literacies elucidates how undergraduate students with diverse skillsets can effectively engage with socially constructed and discipline-specific knowledge(s) through writing. Over the last two decades, language specialists and education researchers have developed a robust, student-focused epistemology. However, it remains unclear how lecturers understand and teach Academic Literacies in their courses. This article shifts the focus by exploring how we –a teaching team in International Relations at a Swedish university –translated the knowledge claims and ideological commitments of Academic Literacies into an applied pedagogy. We employ collaborative, reflective practice to investigate how we progressively integrated Academic Literacies in an introductory, bachelor’s level course from 2010–2019. Specifically, we illustrate how we used formative feedback, peer assessment, and reflective journaling to teach International Relations throughacademic writing. We conclude with a discussion of the best practices and unresolved challenges of our evolving pedagogical design.
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Recherches sur la vie intérieure de l’Architecture Africaine de Paix et de Sécurité (APSA)
- 2023
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- Ce volume édité offre des nouvelles perspectives sur la vie intérieure de l'Architecture africaine de paix et de sécurité (APSA) et présente aux spécialistes dand la domaine paix et securité africaine des approches épistémologiques, conceptuelles et méthodologiques innovantes. Basé sur une ouverture intellectuelle et un intérêt pour les perspectives transdisciplinaires, le volume remet en question les courants dominants, nous invitant à réfléchir sur les pratiques de recherche elles-mêmes. S'appuyant sur les perspectives des études globales et des études critiques internationales, les auteurs suivent des approches inductives et laissent les données empiriques enrichir leurs cadres théoriques et leurs outils conceptuels. Dans cette entreprise, ils se concentrent sur les acteurs, les pratiques et les discours impliqués qui donne forme aux institutions regionales. Les analyses ici-présentes examine les hypothèses qui informent habituellement les études sur le régionalisme et la gouvernance en Afrique.
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Researching the Inner Life of the African Peace and Security Architecture : APSA inside-out
- 2021
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- This edited volume offers new insights into the inner life of the African Peace and Security Architecture (APSA) and introduces scholars of African security dynamics to innovative epistemological, conceptual and methodological approaches. Based on intellectual openness and an interest in transdisciplinary perspectives, the volume challenges existing orthodoxies, poses new questions and opens a discussion on actual research practice. Drawing on Global Studies and critical International Studies perspectives, the authors follow inductive approaches and let the empirical data enrich their theoretical frameworks and conceptual tools. In this endeavor they focus on actors, practices and narratives involved in African Peace and Security and move beyond the often Western-centric premises of research carried out within rigid disciplinary boundaries.Contributors are Michael Aeby, Yvonne Akpasom, Katharina P.W. Döring, Ulf Engel, Fana Gebresenbet Erda, Linnéa Gelot, Amandine Gnanguênon, Toni Haastrup, Jens Herpolsheimer, Alin Hilowle, Jamie Pring, Lilian Seffer, Thomas Kwasi Tieku, Antonia Witt, Dawit Yohannes Wondemagegnehu
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