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UN peacekeeping in Lebanon, Somalia and Kosovo : operational and legal issues in practice
This book examines a number of issues associated with contemporary multinational peace operations, and seeks to provide insights into the problems that arise in establishing and deploying such forces to meet the challenges of current conflicts.
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Compounding Vulnerability: Impacts of Climate Change on Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank
Coping with (and adapting to) climatological hazards is commonly understood in intergovernmental and aid agency fora as a purely technical matter. This article examines the UN Development Programme's stakeholder consultations in the West Bank and Gaza Strip in order to challenge the donor-driven technical-managerial framing of Palestinian climate vulnerability by showing how Israeli occupation practices exacerbate environmental stresses. While emphasizing the importance of social, economic, and political contexts in shaping populations' responses to climate change in general, the authors demonstrate the multiple ways in which the occupation specifically compounds hazards reveals it as constitutive of Palestinian climate vulnerability.
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After War: Inside the U.S. Civilian Struggle to Build Peace
Responding to the need for civilian assistance in Iraq, as well as to legislative pressure, the State Department created an office to lead and coordinate stabilization and reconstruction in 2004. The new office's executing arm--a deployable civilian corps--was not directly funded until five years later. In 2010, as military operations drew down and preparations began for transition to a State-led mission, the department's Civilian Response Corps sent just one person to Iraq. Stabilization and reconstruction missions require a breadth of skills that reside in the US lead agencies for diplomacy and development--skills that are distinct from the requirements of conventional warfare. In this mission, the State Department, supported by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) coordinates and leads the US interagency in a whole-of-government approach to post-conflict environments, providing a flexible response capability that can operate in the field, often (but not necessarily) in partnership with the US military. Here, Miles discusses why the State and USAID persistently struggle to generate capacity to lead these efforts.
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Institutional Capacity Building and Legal Reform in Iraq: Toward Innovation and Public Administration Modernization
Iraq is often cited as a test case as to whether “nation-building” can work. Since 2003, the U.S. government has been advancing institutional capacity development with Iraq’s national government. Now 10 years later, it is clear that the program, the largest such as U.S. government program since the Vietnam War, has been a success. Tangible durable institutional reforms are now in place to professionalize the civil service, improve electricity production, make public procurement more transparent and efficient, and upgrade budget formulation and execution. The program, known locally as USAID/Tatweer, worked across executive branch agencies, to improve government performance and expand institutional capacity development. Its accomplishments, so far almost entirely unrecognized by the media, will continue to advance democratic change in Iraq for generations to come.
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