Towards UN counter-terrorism operations?

Karlsrud, John

doi:10.1080/01436597.2016.1268907

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“…To identify drivers of the shift towards 'hard' security within some UN PKOs, it is (again) useful to consider evolving state interests, ideas about peace and development, and reforms to UN institutions. In terms of interests, the UN and powerful member states have continued to see a need to 'stabilize' fragile states, which are viewed as sources of instability and violent extremism (Karlsrud, 2017(Karlsrud, , 2019. For the United States, this view was partly informed by experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan (see Muggah, 2014b, pp.…”

Section: Evolution Of Development In Peacekeeping: 2010-2019mentioning

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Developing peace: the evolution of development goals and activities in United Nations peacekeeping

Gledhill¹,

Caplan²,

Meiske³

2021

Oxford Development Studies

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Peacekeeping and development assistance are two of the United Nations' (UN) defining activities. While there have been extensive studies of UN engagement in each of these areas, respectively, less attention has been given to the relationship between peacekeeping and development. We examine that relationship in this article. We do so by first considering whether concepts and principles that underpin peacekeeping and development cohere. We then combine original quantitative data with qualitative analyses in order to document the degree to which development goals and activities have been incorporated into UN peacekeeping operations since their inception over 70 years ago. While we observe a steady increase in the level of engagement of peacekeeping with development over time, we argue that short-term security goals have been prioritized over longer-term development objectives in a number of recent UN peacekeeping operations, as peacekeepers have been deployed to contexts of ongoing conflict.

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Section: Evolution Of Development In Peacekeeping: 2010-2019mentioning

confidence: 99%

Developing peace: the evolution of development goals and activities in United Nations peacekeeping

Gledhill¹,

Caplan²,

Meiske³

2021

Oxford Development Studies

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“…73 MINUSMA forms the point where these trends converge, and although the mission has stabilization in its name, it is in practice moving towards counterterrorism. 74 At the UN, there is a growing feeling that ''the Europeans try to NATO-nize the UN as much as possible'' with the efforts to update and add doctrines, policies, and capabilities. 75…”

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For the greater good?: “Good states” turning UN peacekeeping towards counterterrorism

Karlsrud

2019

International Journal

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The usual suspects of middle power internationalism—small and middle powers such as Canada, Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, and Sweden—have all contributed to the UN peacekeeping mission in Mali (MINUSMA). This article argues that while these and other Western countries' contributions to MINUSMA may still be characterized as investments into UN peacekeeping reform and a rule-governed world order, the liberal underpinnings of that commitment are withering. Instead, these countries seek to enhance their own status. This is done by gaining appreciation for their contributions, primarily from the US; strengthening their bids for a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council; and self-interested contributions to reform UN peacekeeping by efforts to enable it to confront violent extremism and terrorism. Paradoxically, the article concludes, when moving the UN towards counterterrorism and weakening the legitimacy of the organization, Western states undermine a cornerstone of their own security.

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“…Member states and multilateral organisations have developed various doctrines and guidelines for countering and preventing violent extremism, ranging from military-oriented counter-insurgency and counter-terrorism guidance such as the US Counterterrorism doctrine and NATO's military concept for defence against terrorism (United States Department of the Army 2014; NATO 2011). The UN is currently in a state of flux when it comes to policy development on the issue of counter-terrorism and countering and preventing violent extremism, and there is increasing pressure from member states on the UN to take on a greater share of these challenges (Boutellis and Fink 2016;Karlsrud 2017Karlsrud , 2018. These member states request that UN peace operations should be more relevant to what are seen as challenges of the twenty-first century, and MINUSMA has become the laboratory for testing whether UN peace operations actually are able to take on these challenges.…”

Section: The United Nations Terrorism and Violent Extremismmentioning

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“…had a task force on counter-terrorism and organised crime, with a mandate to "provide recommendations on the delivery of a common and comprehensive strategy to support the Government of Mali in counter-terrorism and in combating organized crime" (UN 2015e, p. 23). In the more robust end of the spectrum, the MINUSMA military troops have been preparing "targeting packs […] on groups and individuals considered a threat to the mission," (Karlsrud 2017(Karlsrud , p. 1224) and has been sharing information with the parallel French counter-terrorism mission Opération Barkhane (ibid.). Taken together, these practices suggest that MINUSMA may already have crossed the red line drawn by the HIPPO.…”

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UN Peace Operations, Terrorism, and Violent Extremism

Karlsrud

2018

United Nations Peace Operations in a Changing Global Order

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In the last decade or so, terrorism and violent extremism have moved centre stage on the international policy agenda. Consequently, also the question of the United Nations peace operations' role vis-à-vis these threats has gained strength. Historically, UN peace operations have been deployed in theatres where such threats have been present, but they have so far not confronted these threats directly. The UN stabilisation mission in Mali (MINUSMA), deployed in 2013, marked the beginning of a new era in this respect. MINUSMA has been the target of terrorist attacks from a number of different groups, and had at the time of writing suffered 95 fatalities and a number of injuries as a result (UN 2017a). But MINUSMA is also a notable case study because it has been mandated by the UN Security Council to take "direct action" to mitigate and respond to the asymmetric threats that the terrorist groups represent (UN 2016a, p. 8).

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Towards UN counter-terrorism operations?

Cited by 55 publications

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Developing peace: the evolution of development goals and activities in United Nations peacekeeping

Developing peace: the evolution of development goals and activities in United Nations peacekeeping

For the greater good?: “Good states” turning UN peacekeeping towards counterterrorism

UN Peace Operations, Terrorism, and Violent Extremism

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