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International Public
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7. Peace, security and humanitarian
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October 22 and 23, 2009
The international public sector provides direct services to people in a number
of areas. The most prominent is in the area of peace, security and humanitarian
assistance. Here, by providing troops that can reduce conflict or secure public
order, by providing basic public services to refugees and displaced persons
and by assisting in emergency reconstruction, international organizations -
both public and non-governmental - are like governments. However, management
of these services takes place in a context that is quite different from those
that a national government, or a national NGO, would face. This session explores
those differences and the management implications that flow from
them.
The Friday session will be in the Global Collaboratory
(Eggers 060)
Questions covered |
- Neutrality and openness
as key characteristics
- Provision of services
in a context where order is lacking.
- Problems of swift response
in a politically-charged environment
- Finding the right people
for the job
- Making contracting effective
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Lecture |
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Required readings |
- Mathiason, Chapters 7-8
- Lindenberg and Bryant, Chapter 3
- United Nations, 60 Years of Peacekeeping
- Report of the
Panel on United Nations Peace Operations (the Brahimi Report).
Try to read all of it. At least read the Executive Summary and the
Recommendations sections. This is still the most thorough examination
of peacekeeping and serves as the baseline for subsequent evaluations
of performance.
- Report of the Secretary-General, United
Nations Peacekeeping Operations Principles and Guidelines
- Medecins sans Frontires, No
Choice: Somali and Ethiopian Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Migrants
Crossing the Gulf of Aden
- Medecins sans Frontires,
Activity
Report 2008
- United Nations, OCHA in 2007:
Activities and Extra-budgetary Funding Requirements of the Office for
Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. A description of what the office
actually does. Also look at OCHA
on-line.
- United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Global
Report 2008, The Year in Review.
[Go to page and click on 2008 Global Report] Browse other chapters. Note
the strategic objectives (and how they are formulated).
- World Food Programme, Consolidated
Framework of WFP Policies (October 2004) . Every year WFP presents
a different policy paper. You can also read some of the other
WFP policy papers.
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Recommended readings |
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Discussion questions |
- To what extent can peace
operations really be "managed"?
- How is the contradiction
between the need for neutrality in humanitarian assistance and functioning
of peacekeeping best resolved?
- When are NGO's better
at humanitarian assistance and when are UN agencies?
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John R. Mathiason
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October 23, 2009
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