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Offering the diagnosis, but lacking the medicine: UN local peacebuilding-peacekeeping nexus in Haiti
2012 •
John Karlsrud, Diana Felix Da Costa
The United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) stands out from other UN peacekeeping missions, which have focused on responding to situations of violent conflict. In Haiti there is no violent conflict as such: the problems are lack of political confluence, lack of respect for agreements, and an inability to compromise. In contrast to the loud national-level narrative extremely critical of MINUSTAH, at local levels the UN mission has often been the only available link to the national government and international organizations present in remote areas. While the UN and its Civil Affairs (CA) section are doing an important job in Haiti, it is important to leverage the presence of the UN throughout Haiti to realize substantial and tangible peacebuilding and development dividends that can benefit local populations, and to engage more strongly with non-state actors and NGOs. A key challenge is to give local populations the possibility to participate in local and national politics. The research team also noted that politics was seen as business as usual, and ‘the mission was seen to be protecting a power set and not facilitating a national dialogue’. In part, this was due to lack of responsiveness on the part of the mission and other international actors as to the role they might be able to play in enabling non-state actors outside the capital to have a voice. That should be a focus area for the UN and other actors when they start on the transition process of phasing out the mission.
International cooperation in Haiti: organization for what?
2013 •
Sueli Goulart
This paper aims to reflect about the contradictions of international cooperation for development in Haiti that can be summarized in two perspectives: the North-South cooperation (NSC) and South-South cooperation (SSC). The dynamics of relationships can mix them (N-SSC). We identified governmental and nongovernmental particularly in health, linked to the OECD, the ALBA-TCP and UNASUR as empirical sources for reflection. The OECD privileges the perspective of NSC: commitment of developed nations with undeveloped. It operates mainly through NGOs. The ALBA-TCP and UNASUR have followed the perspective of SSC: commitment and solidarity among nations alike. They emphasize the horizontal partnership based on solidarity, respect for national sovereignty and peculiarities of each country. The resumption of the categories imperialism and internationalism may contribute to the understanding and analysis the contradictions in the international development agenda, illustrated by how these differe...
Oxford Handbooks
United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH)
2015 •
Nicolas Lemay-Hébert
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The United Nations Year 2008/2009: The Challenge of Global Crises
2010 •
Karl P. Sauvant
The authors briefly discuss topics such as the global financial crisis, the continuing food crisis, the Gaza conflict, the spread of terrorism and the humanitarian crisis of the displacement of people in Sri Lanka and Pakistan. They outline the activities of the General Assembly, the Secretariat, the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, and the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). They recap conferences and high level meetings that deal with the lack of progress in achieving the Millennium Development Goals and problems facing the creation of a treaty on climate change in Copenhagen. The article provides an overview of peacebuilding missions, namely the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), the United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUCO), the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), the United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq (UNAMI), the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK)...
'Jistis ak reparasyon pou tout viktim kolera MINUSTAH': the United Nations and the right to health in Haiti
Nicolas Lemay-Hébert
The Haiti cholera claims are focused upon the U.N.'s violation of the rights of individuals affected by the cholera outbreak to access a remedy. The U.N.'s absolute immunity from jurisdiction of national courts is counterbalanced by its duty to provide alternative dispute resolution mechanisms for private law claims. The U.N. has not only failed to provide those alternative dispute resolution mechanisms, but has repeatedly stated that it any claims are not receivable so in these circ*mstances. Here we set out that even if the U.N. is able to shield itself from private law claims by using the cloak of absolute immunity, the U.N. might be held responsible for human rights violations arising from the cholera outbreak in Haiti. This article is concerned with the broader issue of whether the U.N. has violated and continues to violate individuals' right to health in Haiti.
BPSC-107 Perspectives on International Relations and World History
Changing Nature of the UN System
2018 •
Abdulrahim Vijapur
The United Nations has been the centerpiece of global governance in the postwar years. This Unit will examine the UN system including its goals, organs and agencies, and achievements and limitations. The unit also discusses the changing nature and dynamics of the UN and the debate on reforming the UN. After going through this Unit, students should be able to: State the objectives/ purposes of the UN; Describe the principles and the principal organs of the UN; Explain the role of the UN System; functions of its specialized Agencies; various Programmes and funding, and the functioning of the Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs) Debate on the democratization of the UN System and Explain the prospects of the UN System.
