[PDF] International Governance Of War Torn Territories eBook

Author : Richard Caplan
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 49,72 MB
Release : 2005-01-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0199263450

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Since the mid-1990s the United Nations and other multilateral organizations have been entrusted with exceptional authority for the administration of war-torn and strife-ridden territories. In Bosnia and Herzegovina, Eastern Slavonia, Kosovo, and East Timor these organizations have assumed responsibility for governance to a degree unprecedented in recent history. These initiatives represent some of the boldest experiments in the management and settlement of intra-state conflict everattempted by third parties.This book is a study of recent experiences in the international administration of war-torn territories. It examines the nature of these operations - their mandates, structures, and powers - and distinguishes them from kindred historical and contemporary experiences of peacekeeping, trusteeship, and military occupation. It analyses and assesses the effectiveness of international administrations and discusses, in thematic fashion, the key operational and political challenges that arise in thecontext of these experiences. It also reflects on the policy implications of these experiences, recommending reforms or new approaches to the challenge posed by localized anarchy in a global context. It argues that, despite many of the problems arising from both the design and implementation ofinternational administrations, international administration has generally made a positive contribution to the mitigation of conflict in the territories where they have been established.This major new work from a leading scholar provides a comprehensive treatment of recent attempts at international governance of war-torn territories, and will be essential reading for anyone interested in peace-keeping operations and international administration.

Author : Richard Caplan
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 15,56 MB
Release : 2005-01-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0191532495

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Since the mid-1990s the United Nations and other multilateral organizations have been entrusted with exceptional authority for the administration of war-torn and strife-ridden territories. In Bosnia and Herzegovina, Eastern Slavonia, Kosovo, and East Timor these organizations have assumed responsibility for governance to a degree unprecedented in recent history. These initiatives represent some of the boldest experiments in the management and settlement of intra-state conflict ever attempted by third parties. This book is a study of recent experiences in the international administration of war-torn territories. It examines the nature of these operations - their mandates, structures, and powers - and distinguishes them from kindred historical and contemporary experiences of peacekeeping, trusteeship, and military occupation. It analyses and assesses the effectiveness of international administrations and discusses, in thematic fashion, the key operational and political challenges that arise in the context of these experiences. It also reflects on the policy implications of these experiences, recommending reforms or new approaches to the challenge posed by localized anarchy in a global context. It argues that, despite many of the problems arising from both the design and implementation of international administrations, international administration has generally made a positive contribution to the mitigation of conflict in the territories where they have been established, thus removing or reducing a threat to peace and helping to improve the lives of the vast majority of the territories' inhabitants. This major new work from a leading scholar provides the first comprehensive treatment of recent attempts at international governance of war-torn territories, and will be essential reading for anyone interested in peace-keeping operations and international administration.

Author : Richard Caplan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 42,68 MB
Release : 2014-09-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1136048642

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This paper analyses and assesses the effectiveness of international administrations of war-torn territories and discusses the key issues - strategic, political, and economic - that arise in the context of these experiences. It reflects on the policy implications of these experiences and recommends reforms or new approaches to international administration.

Author : Deborah Isser
Publisher : US Institute of Peace Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 47,88 MB
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 1601270666

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The major peacekeeping and stability operations of the last ten years have mostly taken place in countries that have pervasive customary justice systems, which pose significant challenges and opportunities for efforts to reestablish the rule of law. These systems are the primary, if not sole, means of dispute resolution for the majority of the population, but post-conflict practitioners and policymakers often focus primarily on constructing formal justice institutions in the Western image, as opposed to engaging existing traditional mechanisms. This book offers insight into how the rule of law community might make the leap beyond rhetorical recognition of customary justice toward a practical approach that incorporates the realities of its role in justice strategies."Customary Justice and the Rule of Law in War-Torn Societies" presents seven in-depth case studies that take a broad interdisciplinary approach to the study of the justice system. Moving beyond the narrow lens of legal analysis, the cases Mozambique, Guatemala, East Timor, Afghanistan, Liberia, Iraq, Sudan examine the larger historical, political, and social factors that shape the character and role of customary justice systems and their place in the overall justice sector. Written by resident experts, the case studies provide advice to rule of law practitioners on how to engage with customary law and suggest concrete ways policymakers can bridge the divide between formal and customary systems in both the short and long terms. Instead of focusing exclusively on ideal legal forms of regulation and integration, this study suggests a holistic and flexible palette of reform options that offers realistic improvements in light of social realities and capacity limitations. The volume highlights how customary justice systems contribute to, or detract from, stability in the immediate post-conflict period and offers an analytical framework for assessing customary justice systems that can be applied in any country. "

Author : Richard Caplan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 50,48 MB
Release : 2019-04-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0192538349

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How can we know if the peace that has been established following a civil war is a stable peace? More than half of all countries that experienced civil war since World War II have suffered a relapse into violent conflict, in some cases more than once. Meanwhile, the international community expends billions of dollars and deploys tens of thousands of personnel each year in support of efforts to build peace in countries emerging from violent conflict. This book argues that efforts to build peace are hampered by the lack of effective means of assessing progress towards the achievement of a consolidated peace. Rarely, if ever, do peacebuilding organizations and governments seek to ascertain the quality of the peace that they are helping to build and the contribution that their engagement is making (or not) to the consolidation of peace. More rigorous assessments of the robustness of peace are needed. These assessments require clarity about the characteristics of, and the requirements for, a stable peace. This in turn requires knowledge of the local culture, local history, and the specific conflict dynamics at work in a given conflict situation. Better assessment can inform peacebuilding actors in the reconfiguration and reprioritization of their operations in cases where conditions on the ground have deteriorated or improved. To build a stable peace, it is argued here, it is important to take the measure of peace.

Author : Nicolas Lemay-Hébert
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 33,59 MB
Release : 2009
Category :
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Direct governance by an international administration tends to create a social backlash in a state-building context. In this regard, the contemporary international administration seems directly related to the mainstream conception of the state, state collapse and state-building. The political response, namely direct governance of "collapsed states," seems unfit to correctly address the social challenges of postwar state-building. In other words, direct governance of war-torn territories is hardly compatible with the objective of fostering and nurturing legitimacy in an externally-led state-building project. The legitimacy aspects pertaining to state-building, if initially discarded in the setting-up and exercise of the peace mission's mandate, will find a way to reaffirm themselves throughout the mission. In Kosovo as in Timor-Leste, the UN found itself embroiled in a deep legitimacy crises. Indeed, the missions' legitimacy quickly withered away with the actual exercise of authority by the mission. The unprecedented contestation and resistance to the UN found in Kosovo and Timor-Leste is correlated with the equally unprecedented level of authority endowed to the peace mission, which translated into direct governance of the territories. This study has demonstrated that both Kosovo and Timor-Leste represent truly unprecedented attempts of state-building, not because of their mandate, but, more importantly, because their mandate has been translated into effective authority on the ground. In this context, accountability mechanisms can be instrumental in assuring a certain degree of trust between the international presence and the local population.

Author : Augusto Lopez-Claros
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 46,10 MB
Release : 2020-01-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 1108476961

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Identifies the major weaknesses in the current United Nations system and proposes fundamental reforms to address each. This title is also available as Open Access.