Publishing Institution: International Peace Institute

Author:: Sheila Coutts and Kelvin Ong
Publication Date:: 06-2001
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: International Peace Institute
Abstract:: While a functioning security sector provides the cornerstone for stable and democratic post-conflict societies, the record of the international community in establishing this critical function is mixed. Despite repeatedly having to manage the immediate post-conflict situation in various peace operations in Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America, the international community still fails to take the state of the local security sector adequately into account when planning its own intervention.
Topic:: Conflict Resolution, Security, Human Rights, International Law, International Organization, Migration, and United Nations
Political Geography:: Africa, Europe, Asia, and Latin America

Author:: Bruce D. Jones
Publication Date:: 06-2001
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: International Peace Institute
Abstract:: “Strategic coordination” is shorthand for efforts to respond to three common challenges facing thirdparty implementers of peace agreements: incoherence between the mediation and the implementation phases; conflicting approaches within a given phase; and fragmented, contradictory efforts to implement a given strategy. At worst, failure to deal with these challenges can undermine a peace process; at best, they add costs, reduce effectiveness, and slow success.
Topic:: Conflict Resolution, Security, Human Rights, International Law, International Organization, Migration, and United Nations

Author:: Jake Sherman
Publication Date:: 04-2001
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: International Peace Institute
Abstract:: Increasing attention is being paid to the involvement and the relative influence of international private sector actors in the political economy of countries and regions experiencing violent conflict. This expert workshop was convened in order to assess the nature of business activity as it relates to violent conflict, to delineate areas where further research is needed, and to consider what policy responses may be needed to mitigate the potentially destabilizing effects of private sector activity in war-torn countries.
Topic:: Conflict Resolution, Security, Human Rights, International Law, International Organization, Migration, and United Nations

Publication Date:: 02-2001
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: International Peace Institute
Abstract:: There is no single “developing world” perspective on UN peace operations — nor, indeed, a single perspective from each of the regions that took part in the consultation. Nevertheless, some broad themes emerged in the course of discussion, conditioned by particular regional experiences with such operations. Each of the meetings emphasized the importance of the Brahimi Report and took note of the timing and resource constraints that limited the scope of the Report essentially to peacekeeping. All meetings in the developing world, where people feel marginalized from UN decision-making, rued the lateness of the consultative process, noting that building a constituency for UN peace operations requires more extensive, deeper, and earlier consultation with a broad range of regional and local actors. At the New York meeting one permanent representative observed that, returning to the organization after a fifteen-year absence, he saw that the UN, too, was now being affected by the global demand for transparency and accountability.
Topic:: Conflict Resolution, Security, Human Rights, International Law, International Organization, Migration, and United Nations
Political Geography:: New York

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