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UN Peace Operations and International Policing - Negotiating Complexity, Assessing Impact and Learning to Learn (Hardcover)
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UN Peace Operations and International Policing - Negotiating Complexity, Assessing Impact and Learning to Learn (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution
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This book addresses the important question of how the UN should
monitor and evaluate the impact of police in its peace operations.
United Nations (UN) peace operations are a vital component of the
international community's conflict management toolkit. They have
evolved significantly since the end of the Cold War and one of the
foremost developments has been the rise of UN policing (UNPOL),
growing dramatically in number and evolving from a passive
observation role to include frontline law enforcement activities
and an intrusive institutional reform and capacity-building
functions.However, attempts to ascertain the impact of UNPOL
endeavours towards these goals have proven inadequate for
reflecting and capturing the complex change processes at play. This
book has two main objectives therefore. First, to investigate the
ways in which the effects of peace operations - and UNPOL in
particular - are monitored and evaluated. Second, to develop a
framework for Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) that enables more
effective impact assessment in order to contribute to
organisational learning in the field and at headquarters.Part 1 of
the book explores how UN policing and M&E are currently
undertaken and identifies the problems and challenges associated
with conventional practice. Part 2 applies insights from complexity
theory to develop an innovative framework for holistic M&E
designed to overcome those shortcomings. In part 3 the utility and
relevance of the framework is tested through case study field
research in Liberia with a wide cross-section of stakeholders in
the mission area. Empirical evidence is presented to demonstrate a
number of strengths with the proposed framework when compared to
existing approaches, but also to highlight a number of potential
weaknesses that warrant revision and refinement. The central claim
of the book is that to realise multiple potentialities M&E
needs to be both re-thought and re-positioned. First, new
epistemological thinking needs to be brought to bear in the focus
and design of an approach and associated selection of methods for
its execution; and second, it needs to be embedded in the machinery
of peace operations such that it is an intrinsic part of the way
they are planned and managed.The book demonstrates that an approach
grounded in these principles has the potential to overcome the
shortcomings synonymous with extant orthodoxy. Furthermore, it is
argued that by enhancing the relationship between field-level
M&E and organisational learning, the findings of this research
can make an important contribution to the pursuit of more
professional and effective UN peace operations. This recognition
also constitutes the key contribution of the book as it offers an
antidote to the frailties of current orthodoxy and presents the
opportunity for improved practice for UNPOL in peace operations as
well as related fields. This book will be of much interest to
students of peace operations, conflict management, policing,
security studies and IR in general.
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