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The Role of Civilian Police in Peacekeeping - 1999-2007 (Paperback)
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The Role of Civilian Police in Peacekeeping - 1999-2007 (Paperback)
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Loot Price R382
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Despite the extensive amount of literature that has examined the
role of the military in peacekeeping and intervention operations,
there is little literature or information available that
investigates the role and the work of the civilian police, or the
methods they use to assist in the reformation of local police.
While the inclusion of police in peacekeeping missions is an
accepted mantra by both academia and practitioners, the role of
police in peacekeeping missions is not well understood by policy
and decision makers. Civilian police were first deployed by the
United Nations more than 50 years ago. After a lull of
approximately two decades, the number of civilian police on
peacekeeping operations increased from 1,677 officers in 1994 to
more than 10,000 officers in 2009. The role of civilian police has
continued to broaden from one of monitoring general elections and
providing training and basic security to one of patrolling and
developing local police capacity. Police reform is acknowledged as
a crucial element when establishing a sense of security and when
developing a post-conflict nation. While the principles and
practices of capacity development can be applied in most
development assistance programs, there are some additional
challenges to developing or rebuilding police capacity in weak,
post-conflict or failed countries. The major governance problem
experienced in peacekeeping missions is the use of Western
democratic policing models, ideologies, and technologies by
international policing deployments. When using Western democratic
policing models, members of international police usually fail to
take into account the local context and culture. Using Western
forms of policing raises a number of theoretical and practical
questions about imposing such models on post-conflict nations. The
imposition of Western models also raises questions about (a) the
changing role of the nation-state (Garland, 1996), (b) the
governance of intervention or reform policing, and (c) the growing
use of the police as modes and models of social and state
governance (Bayley and Shearing, 2001). The purpose of this book is
to understand the role that police play in the post-conflict
context, especially in regard to reforming local police. Through
the examination of 23 United Nations and European Union
peacekeeping missions that took place between 1999 and 2007, this
study develops responsive operational tools and policies that will
support the effective use of deployed police in their delivery of
service and in developing the capacity of local police. The
analysis of these operational tools and policies lead to the
designing of a generic police peacekeeping model for future
peacekeeping or reform missions. The police peacekeeping model
consists of a number of dynamic components that take account of
flexibility and local culture. Included in the model's components
are the implementation of a pre-deployment planning phase and the
necessity of objectives and evaluation. It is intended that this
study will assist in improving peace-building outcomes by
increasing post-conflict security, stability, and development.
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