The Transformation of UN Conflict Management: Producing Images of Genocide from Rwanda to Darfur and Beyond

by Piiparinen; Touko

• ISBN13: 9780415544085
• ISBN10: 0415544084
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-10-19
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The book provides a structural analysis of the transformation of UN conflict management, from the failure to prevent genocide in Rwanda to Darfur, and moves on to examine the development of Responsibility to Protect and the Peacebuilding Commission.

Table of Contents

List of figures	p. viii
Acknowledgements	p. ix
List of abbreviations	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Rwanda, the genocide of our time	p. 14
Introduction	p. 14
Precolonial and colonial Rwanda	p. 17
Hutu Republic and genocide	p. 18
'Lessons learned', peoples betrayed: genocide ten years on	p. 23
Conclusion	p. 25
A critical realist approach to conflict management	p. 26
Introduction	p. 26
Developing critical realism for the study of international relations: from philosophy to a methodological framework	p. 29
Devising the method of double movement	p. 33
Mechanisms and possibilities: new ontological building blocks of theory on conflict management	p. 38
Conclusion	p. 42
UN conflict management of the 1990s	p. 44
Introduction	p. 44
Setting the scene for analysis: post-Cold War conflict management	p. 46
Detection mechanisms of the UN	p. 48
Securitisation mechanisms of the UN	p. 51
Conclusion	p. 57
Explanatory theories of the UN's failure	p. 60
Introduction	p. 60
Overview of the UN's failure	p. 61
'First wave' of explanations: the role of member states	p. 64
'Second wave' of explanations: the role of the Secretariat	p. 69
Transcending the 'blame game': towards a deeper understanding of the UN's failure	p. 74
Conclusion	p. 76
Early warning	p. 78
Introduction	p. 78
Phenomenal level: the malfunctions of early warning	p. 79
Structural level: the root causes of the malfunctions of early warning	p. 83
Emancipatory move: locating possibilities for the early detection of genocide	p. 90
Conclusion	p. 95
Bureaucratic mechanisms	p. 99
Introduction	p. 99
Relationship between early warning and bureaucratic rationalisation	p. 101
Dysfunctions of bureaucratic rationalisation during genocide	p. 104
Mechanism of organisational learning	p. 114
Emancipatory move: locating possibilities for transforming bureaucratic constraints	p. 118
Tribalisation and the statist paradigm of Western thinking	p. 123
Conclusion	p. 128
Future visions of conflict management	p. 131
Introduction	p. 131
New division of labour as a counterstrategy for 'body-bag syndrome'	p. 133
A pragmatic turn in peacekeeping	p. 135
A functional shift in control mechanisms	p. 136
Mainstreaming RtoP and thinking out of bureaucratic boxes	p. 138
Defending the baseline of humanity as a future vision of the UN	p. 148
Defender of truth: the second vision of a future UN	p. 159
Conclusion	p. 163
Conclusion	p. 168
Notes	p. 182
Bibliography	p. 203
Index	p. 219
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