Peace Capacities Network Synthesis Report: Rising Powers and Peace Operations (original) (raw)

Introduction: Why Examine Rising Powers’ Role in Peacebuilding?

2017

Over the last decade, setbacks in places like Burundi, Libya, South Sudan, and Yemen have undercut the credibility that peacebuilding enjoyed in the international system. These failures have combined with a push from rising powers against Western dominance to produce a turn to the Global South for more legitimate and effective responses to mass organized violence in the world. Onto this stage new actors like the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) and other regional powers in the Global South, like Indonesia and Turkey, have emerged as new “donors” that advance their own political and technical approaches to peacebuilding. These rising powers seek to influence how the United Nations, other multilateral organizations, traditional donors, and recipient countries view and do peacebuilding. Their entry may fundamentally alter peacebuilding a decade from now. This book seeks to answer the following central questions: What exactly is new and innovative about the peacebu...

Rising Powers and Peacebuilding: Breaking the Old?

2017

This edited volume examines the policies and practices of rising powers on peacebuilding. It analyzes how and why their approaches differ from those of traditional donors and multilateral institutions. The policies of the rising powers towards peacebuilding may significantly influence how the UN and others undertake peacebuilding in the future. Over the last decade, setbacks in places like Burundi, Libya, South Sudan and Yemen have undercut the credibility that peacebuilding enjoyed in the international system. These failures have combined with a push from rising powers against Western dominance to produce a turn to the Global South for more legitimate and effective responses to mass organized violence in the world. Onto this stage new actors like the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) and other regional powers in the Global South, like Indonesia and Turkey, have emerged as new ‘donors’ that advance their own political and technical approaches to peacebuilding. These rising powers seek to influence how the UN, other multilateral organisations, traditional donors and recipient countries view and do peacebuilding. Their entry may fundamentally alter peacebuilding a decade from now. This book seeks to answer the following central questions: What exactly is new and innovative about the peacebuilding approaches of rising powers from the Global South, and what are the implications of these new approaches? This book analyzes the peacebuilding concepts, policies and practices of five key rising powers – Brazil, India, Indonesia, South Africa and Turkey. It finds that these countries’ approaches share some key features but diverge in others. Rising powers have a broader concept of peacebuilding than most Western donor countries, but the extent to which they equate peacebuilding with development varies. They have a more holistic operational approach, a longer time horizon and a strong emphasis on national ownership, but the latter is often narrowed down to governmental consent. They share a heightened sensitivity to sovereignty, but negotiate this in a variety of ways. The book finds that the rising powers have influenced the discourse and practices of peacebuilding, especially at the United Nations, but not transformed them. Several recent setbacks raise doubts about whether rising powers will sustain their new influential role in peacebuilding. This volume shows that rising powers have set forth a broadly coherent set of principles and rationales as the basis for their new approach to peacebuilding. These principles and practices are likely to influence how Western donors, the UN, regional organizations and non-governmental organizations approach peacebuilding in important ways in the coming years.

Rising powers and peacebuilding: Breaking the mold?

Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, 2018

The last few years have seen many scholarly assessments of rising powers and their role in foreign aid and global governance. Peacebuilding is a new domain where the rising powers have attracted attention. This important volume makes one question the foundation of peacebuilding, its changes and continuities. In the brief introductory chapter, the editors argue that the peacebuilding efforts by the traditional donors have failed to achieve long-term peace and stability. Moreover, the UN’s peacebuilding apparatus has not lived up to general expectations. This has opened the door for rising powers such as BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) and others in the Global South to fashion their individual approaches to peacebuilding. The editors contend that many of these new initiatives are a refreshing alternative to dominant traditional approaches.

Cultivating a More Durable Peace: Comparative Perspectives on Projecting Stability

OPEN Publications

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Peacebuilding: Problems and Prospects

Efforts to build or rebuild institutions of the State from the outside have often run into three types of contradictions: the means available are inconsistent with the ends, the resources at hand are inadequate to the task, and the implicit model of a State may simply be inappropriate to the circumstances on the ground. Resolving these contradictions requires clarity in three areas: (i) the strategic aims of the action; (ii) the necessary institutional coordination to put all actors — especially security and development actors — on the same page; and (iii) a realistic basis for evaluating the success or failure of the action.

Conclusion: Are Rising Powers Breaking the Peacebuilding Mold?

Rising Powers and Peacebuilding, 2017

The growing international profile of countries like India, Indonesia, Brazil, Turkey, and South Africa has drawn considerable attention in scholarly and policy circles in the past decade (Carmody 2013; Fernández Jilberto and Hogenboom 2010; Mody 2011; Vieira and Alden 2011). Each of these countries has deliberately sought to strengthen its position in regional affairs and in global institutions (Flemes 2007; Hurrell 2006; Schirm 2012). They are all democratic regimes that have (along with China and Russia) opened up their markets in the past two decades and experienced dramatic economic growth. These countries have grown their middle classes and reduced the portion of those in extreme poverty. These rising powers have also become notably more active in facilitating the economic development of other, less powerful, countries. India's C.T. Call

Deliver Peace Through Powersharing: A Comparative Analysis

2019

After several months of political and diplomatic shuttling by mediators, South Sudan finally has a peace deal. Broadly, the new agreement recognises the evolution of the conflict and no longer considers the civil war as binary duel between the two protagonists but rather as involving many actors. It also accepts that Uganda and Sudan, the closest allies to the various conflict parties, play an instrumental role in realising a lasting and sustainable peace agreement. The agreement has attracted wide criticism, especially in the manner in which key players such as the Troika (the United States, Norway, and the United Kingdom) and other stakeholders had been excluded from the final phase of the process held in Khartoum, Sudan. Most importantly, the Revitalised Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in South Sudan (R-ARCSS) has been attacked for not doing enough to tackle corruption, state-capture by elites and social injustices which have been regarded as the main drivers of the c...

IN PURSUIT OF NEW PEACE BUILDING: PEACE, SECURITY AND DEVELOPMENT

Recent events in international relations push us to analyze comprehensively and simultaneously the issues regarding peace, security and development. Many states in the world still suffer from deep and stark economic problems. These economic problems also increase the risk of conflict especially in the developing world. If any conflict occurs, the political, social, economic and environmental disasters can be deepened as well. Therefore, any state facing chronic development problems, has greater risks in terms of the potential conflict or humanitarian crisis. The states in conflict are obliged to use their human capital as soldiers rather than their economic developments. Additionally, those countries mostly allocate their own resources for armament rather than infrastructure or investment. They are not also able to get enough foreign aid for development. These economic and security problems reproduce widespread humanitarian crises, violations of law and corruption that may undermine order and peace in those countries. In this respect, security, peace and development are inseparable issues and concepts that must be tackled together both in theory and practice. Being aware of this necessity, this paper argues that if we analyze those three concepts together, the agenda of the security studies can be broadened. This paper also deals with the case of United Nations in general, and recent resolutions of the United Nations Security Council in particular that evaluate peace, security and development in the same perspective.