Recommendations to the UN Peacebuilding Commission
NUPI researchers Cedric de Coning and Eli Stamnes have contributed two working papers on the possible future role of the UN’s peacebuilding architecture. The papers and its recommendations were presented to the peacebuilding community in New York on the 9th of February 2010.
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Books and reports [More]
- Van Pottelbergh, Gudrun (2010). Handover from International to Local Actors in Peace Missions. Oslo, NUPI. 52 pages. Security in Practice no. 5. This report focuses on the handover process from international to local actors at the end of peace missions in Burundi, Sierra Leone and East Timor.
- Stankovic, Tatjana (2010). Strategy and Credible Commitment. A game theoretic analysis of the conflict in Afghanistan. Oslo, NUPI. 90 pages. The study attempts to examine why international security actors, in particular the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), have failed to defeat the insurgency in Afghanistan.
- Larsen, Iselin Hebbert (2010). UNAMA in Afghanistan. Challenges and Oppertunities in Peacemaking, State-building and Coordination. Oslo, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI). 51 pages. Security in Practice no. 3 . This report focuses on the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) role in peacemaking, state-building and coordination.
- Clewlow, Ade (2010). The Kosovo Protection Corps. A Critical Study of its De-activation as a Transition. Oslo, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs. 38 pages. Security in Practice 4 · 2010. The report analyses the transformation process in which the Kosovo Protection Corps (KPC) was closed down and the Kosovo Security Force (KSF) activated. It critically assesses the role NATO, UN and other international actors played in the process, and highlights some lessons learned which can be of relevance for similar processes in the future.
Articles (in books and journals) [More]
- Neumann, Iver B. (2010). Utenriksministerens spillerom, 1972-2010, Internasjonal Politikk, vol. 68, nr. 1 . Oslo,Universitetsforlaget.p. 115-130.
- Græger, Nina (2010). Utenriksministerens norske "konkurrenter", Internasjonal Politikk, vol. 68, nr. 1 . Oslo,Universitetsforlaget.p. 131-137. Globaliseringen og internasjonaliseringen av politikken har i praksis visket ut skillet mellom utenriks- og innenrikspolitikk. Disse endringene har styrket fagstatsrådenes rolle og makt, til dels på bekostning av utenriksministerens.
- de Coning, Cedric H. (2010). The Evolution of Peace Operations in Africa: Trajectories and Trends, Journal of International Peacekeeping, vol. 14, no. 1-2, February 2010 . BRILL.p. 6-26.
- Overland, Indra , Heidi Kjærnet, Andrea Kendall-Taylor (2010). The Resource Curse and Authoritarianism in the Caspian Petro-States , in Overland, Indra , Heidi Kjærnet, Andrea Kendall-Taylor [eds.] Caspian Energy Politics: Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan . Abingdon,Routledge.p. 1-12.
Working Papers [More]
- Andvig, Jens Chr, Gbewopo Attila (2010). Crime, Police Corruption and Development: Evidence from Victimization Data. NUPI Working Paper: 772. 53 pages. The purpose of this paper is to explore whether some specific sets of criminal actions that have impact on the security of property and persons and the behaviourally related police corruption may have significant impact on the long run economic development.
- Maurseth, Per Botolf (2010). Trade and growth – again. NUPI Working Paper: 771. 23 pages. The paper discusses effects of trade policy on economic growth. The results indicate that high tariff rates on manufactured goods reduce economic growth, while there are no such effects from protection of argicultural goods.
- de Coning, Cedric H. (2010). Clarity, Coherence and Context: Three Priorities for Sustainable Peacebuilding. NUPI Working Paper: . 31 pages. This paper will focus on three challenges that should inform the 2010 Review of the UN Peacebuilding Commission, namely: (1) developing the UN peacebuilding concept and operational model; (2) significantly stepping-up efforts to improve system-wide coherence; and (3) seriously implementing the principle of local ownership.
- Stamnes, Eli (2010). Values, Context and Hybridity: How can the insights from the liberal peace critique literature be brought to bear on the practices of the UN Peacebuilding Architecture?. NUPI Working Paper: . 33 pages. The authors of the liberal peace critique literature argue that local ownership should mean taking the recipient societies’(rather than simply governments’ and elites’) understanding of the problems and solutions as the starting point of peacebuilding.
Popular publishing [More]
- Neumann, Iver B. (2010). NM i utenriks. Morgenbladet, 12. March
- Egeland, Jan (2010). Naturkatastrofenes århundre. Aftenposten, 9. March
- Lodgaard, Sverre (2010). USAs mentale underskudd. Dagsavisen, 3. March
- Lurås, Helge (2010). Takk for oss, Afghanistan. VG, 2. March
