The future of UN peace operations: Principled adaptation through phases of contraction, moderation, and renewal

Coning, Cedric De

doi:10.1080/13523260.2021.1894021

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“…We can thus expect that future debates in the UNSC will be more about the extent to which peace interventions are intrusive in states’ domestic affairs and prescriptive in terms of the values and norms they promote. 8 We concur with other scholars (de Coning, 2021 ) that the UN is less likely to engage in large-scale peacebuilding endeavors in the future and more likely to concentrate its efforts to manage conflicts through more minimalist—and potentially political more than peacekeeping—missions (Hellmüller et al, 2022 ). In a sense, it is possible that the future of peacebuilding is “its past” (Novosseloff, 2022 ).…”

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“…Looking at today’s world politics, scholars and practitioners have started to discuss the future of UN peace operations in the nascent multipolar world order (Cassin & Zyla, 2021 ; Coleman & Williams, 2021 ; de Coning, 2021 ; de Coning & Peter, 2019 ; Kenkel & Foley, 2021 ; Osland & Peter, 2021 ). Multipolarity is characterized by more diffused power structures.…”

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“…For instance, Osland and Peter ( 2021 ) argue that multipolarity will limit the role of the UN to tasks related to conflict containment. Similarly, de Coning ( 2021 ) observes that large-scale ambitious operations are less likely to be deployed in the medium term.…”

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Conflict management or conflict resolution: how do major powers conceive the role of the United Nations in peacebuilding?

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Hellmüller

Salaymeh

2022

Contemporary Security Policy

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This article examines how major powers conceive the role of the United Nations (UN) in peacebuilding. We conceptualize the UN’s role along the distinction between conflict management and conflict resolution and distinguish between the types of tasks and the approach the UN can adopt. We map states’ conceptions of the UN’s role in peacebuilding by coding peace-related speeches at the UN Security Council (1991–2020) delivered by China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, the United States as well as Brazil, South Africa, and Turkey as rising regional powers. Our findings show that states’ conceptions differ regarding the type of tasks the UN should do. However, the main fault line between the countries lie in the approach the UN should adopt to conduct peacebuilding tasks. We conclude that major powers see a role for the UN beyond mere conflict management as long as it is done with respect for national sovereignty.

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Conflict management or conflict resolution: how do major powers conceive the role of the United Nations in peacebuilding?

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Hellmüller

Salaymeh

2022

Contemporary Security Policy

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“…This decline in relevance of multilateral peace operations is likely to continue in a stalled UN Security Council. In the near future, observers do not expect the UN to be “mandated to launch robust, large, and costly new UN peacekeeping operations or reform processes” (de Coning 2021 , p. 216; Osland and Peter 2021 ). Already challenged by budget cuts in the wake of the US Trump administration and burdened by the COVID-19-pandemic, UN peacekeeping is likely to face further cuts, as political priorities and attention across Europe and beyond shift to territorial defense and within-alliance cooperation.…”

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Global consequences of the war in Ukraine: the last straw for (liberal) interventionism?

Geis

Schröder

2022

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The interpretation of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine as a “turning point” indicates that long-established parameters of securing peace in international politics will change. This article tentatively assesses consequences of this war for the agenda of international peacebuilding and for wider interventionist practices in contemporary violent conflict settings. It is argued that the ongoing war speeds up a preexisting phase of profound order transformation that will considerably change the ways in which states manage conflicts and attempt to secure lasting peace in the international system. The article outlines how ongoing transformations already affect—and will further affect—(liberal) interventionism at different entangled scales, ranging from the global to the local. The contribution draws on recent studies of the rise and decline of global orders and interweaves them with insights from empirical peace and conflict research and critical studies of peacebuilding and interventions. It discusses the further decline of global cooperation in the wake of the Russian war against Ukraine, outlines the consequences of the rivalry between United Nations Security Council veto powers for the global agenda of peacebuilding and the conduct of peace operations, and illustrates the local consequences for specific intervention sites, in particular the negative impact of the employment of the Russian Wagner Group in Mali.

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“…In addition to the heavyhanded military operations fueling broader animosity, jihadists have turned this to their advantage (Osland & Erstad, 2020;United Nations, 2020b). Similarly, in South Sudan UN forces are protecting internally displaced people (IDP) camps from state security services, while simultaneously depending on the host state to consent to their presence (Day, 2019).…”

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UN peace operations in a multipolar order: Building peace through the rule of law and bottom-up approaches

Osland

Peter

2021

Contemporary Security Policy

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UN peace operations need a new peacebuilding agenda that acknowledges both the transboundary nature of conflict drivers and the multipolar nature of the global order. This means casting aside the current stabilization approach, but also abandoning the pursuit of liberal peacebuilding of the unipolar era. Such a conflict transformation agenda would require UN peace operations to prioritize the rule of law and bottom-up approaches, thus creating the potential to be embraced by a much broader range of member states. In this article, we bring liberal peacebuilding critiques into a discussion with debates on the nature of the global order. Liberal peacebuilding critiques are rooted in the bottom-up problematization of international interventions and show what kind of peacebuilding is desirable. Conversely, the debates on the multipolar nature of the global order expose the top-down constraints as to what kind of peacebuilding is feasible. KEYWORDS United Nations; peacekeeping; peacebuilding; multipolar order; rule of law; bottom-up approaches At the turn of another decade, something interesting is happening with the United Nations (UN) flagship activity: peacekeeping. In January 2019, the UN underwent substantial institutional reform, deprioritizing the term peacekeeping and subsuming it under a broader umbrella of peace operations. The former Department of Peacekeeping Operations was restructured into the Department of Peace Operations and became more closely integrated with the Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs through shared regional divisions (United Nations, 2019). This reform was

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The future of UN peace operations: Principled adaptation through phases of contraction, moderation, and renewal

Cited by 24 publications

References 20 publications

Conflict management or conflict resolution: how do major powers conceive the role of the United Nations in peacebuilding?

Conflict management or conflict resolution: how do major powers conceive the role of the United Nations in peacebuilding?

Global consequences of the war in Ukraine: the last straw for (liberal) interventionism?

UN peace operations in a multipolar order: Building peace through the rule of law and bottom-up approaches

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