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Protecting the Global Civilian from Violence Timo Kivimaki (University of Bath, UK.)

Protecting the Global Civilian from Violence By Timo Kivimaki (University of Bath, UK.)

Protecting the Global Civilian from Violence by Timo Kivimaki (University of Bath, UK.)


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This book reveals why the UN is more successful than unilateral great powers in protecting civilians from violence, and focuses on the discourse, development and consequences of UN peacekeeping.

Protecting the Global Civilian from Violence Summary

Protecting the Global Civilian from Violence: UN Discourses and Practices in Fragile States by Timo Kivimaki (University of Bath, UK.)

This book reveals why the UN is more successful than unilateral great powers in protecting civilians from violence, and focuses on the discourse, development and consequences of UN peacekeeping.

Analysing statistics of state fragility and fatalities of violence, it reveals that the UN has managed to save tens of thousands of lives with its peacekeeping: a surprising statistic given the media consensus about the UNs powerlessness and inefficiency. Using computer-assisted discourse analysis of resolutions from the UN Security Council, 1993-2019, the book offers data that describe the character and development of UN approach to the protection of civilians from violence. It then links the data to the statistics of conflict fatalities and state fragility to reveal, by means of qualitative and quantitative analysis, when, where, how and why the UN has been successful at protecting civilians.

Two reasons for the UNs success are highlighted in the book as being statistically most significant. First, the organization offers local ownership to peaceful solutions by considering conflicting parties as the primary agents of protection. Second, the UN approach is much less power-oriented than unilateral approaches by the great powers: protection for the UN does not mean deterrence or destruction, but rather, support for local protectors of civilians. However, strong great power influence on such operations tends to weaken UNs ability to save lives.

This book will be of much interest to students of humanitarian intervention, peacekeeping, human rights and International Relations in general.

Protecting the Global Civilian from Violence Reviews

'Part of a growing quantitative literature that claims to demonstrate empirically that peacekeeping not only works but delivers impressive return on investment, Kivimakis core thesis is that peace operations save lives, especially in comparison with unilateral interventions. This argument makes intuitive sense, since great power interventions whether Russias 2008 incursion in Georgia or the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 rarely pay more than lip service to PoC principles...Kivimakis large-N conclusions especially set alongside the work of Lisa Hultman and others do in fact point to a statistically significant relationship between peacekeeper presence and violence reduction.'--Timothy Donais,International Peacekeeping November 2021

About Timo Kivimaki (University of Bath, UK.)

Timo Kivimaki is Professor of International Relations at the University of Bath. In addition to purely academic work he has been a frequent consultant to the Finnish, Danish, Dutch, Russian, Malaysian, Indonesian and Swedish governments and to several UN and EU organizations on conflict.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Theories and Concepts Chapter 3 Pitfalls of Unilateral Protective Military Operations by Great Powers Chapter 4 Measuring Success of UN Military Operations Chapter 5: UN Approach and Identity: beyond Unilateralism, Selfishness and Militarism Chapter 6 Material Resources and UN Peacekeeping Chapter 7 UN and the Other Cosmopolitan Agents Chapter 8 Scholarly Discourse and the UN Protection of Global Civilians

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NPB9780367250300
9780367250300
0367250306
Protecting the Global Civilian from Violence: UN Discourses and Practices in Fragile States by Timo Kivimaki (University of Bath, UK.)
New
Hardback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2021-05-11
248
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