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Ausgabe 1-2006

Themenschwerpunkt: Post-Conflict Peacebuilding

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Themenschwerpunkt: Post-Conflict Peacebuilding

Beiträge aus Sicherheitspolitik und Friedensforschung

Dokumentation zum Schwerpunkt

2005 World Summit Outcome

  • Final document of the High-level Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly
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  • Statement by the President of the Security Council
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Neuerscheinungen
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Annotationen
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Besprechungen | download full article as pdf
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ENGLISH ABSTRACTS

Friedenskonsolidierung der Vereinten Nationen: Herausforderungen auf Grund der »neuen« Kriege
Monika Heupel
Since the end of the Cold War, so-called »new «wars have become more significant. In the light of the privatisation of actors, the economisation of motives, the brutalisation of strategies and the criminalisation of war economies, these »new« wars make high demands on UN post-conflict Peacebuilding. However, until the late 1990s the UN failed to develop adequate strategies to cope with peace consolidation after »new« wars, and many endeavours to implement peace treaties and stabilising peace processes were unsuccessful. Yet the advancement of peace consolidation instruments in recent years and the procedural reforms associated with the establishment of the UN Peacebuilding Commission raise expectations for more effective UN postconflict Peacebuilding in the future.
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Challenges of Peacebuilding: The Example of Kosovo
Soeren Jessen-Petersen
This article provides an overview of the role of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) and its Progress in fulfilling its mandate, including the facilitation of a process leading to a Settlement of Kosovo's status. It then examines some of the challenges remaining for the mission as the status talks get underway and ends by providing some observations on lessons identified from the mission that may be of relevance in other peacekeeping or peacebuilding missions.
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Deja vu or Something New? Lessons for Future Peacebuilding from Haiti
Rama Mani
This article exarnines the case of the MINUSTAH peace operation in Haiti with a view to drawing some observations and lessons for the future of peacebuilding in societies emerging from crisis or conflict. In Setting up the MINUSTAH operation in Haiti, the UN got several things right in text-book terms and yet, it finds itself in a quagmire on the ground. The quandaries and dilernmas faced by the UN in Haiti serve to teach us some valuable lessons and point towards certain recommendations for future peacebuilding. The article recommends that the UN should find a new formula that treads the balance between trusteeship or enhanced international responsibility and diversified local ownership grounded in a broader cross-section of the local population.
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Die Peacebuilding-Kommission der Vereinten Nationen: Möglichkeiten und Grenzen einer neuen Institution
Lllrich Schneckener/Silke Weinlich
In September 2005, UN Member States agreed to establish a Peacebuilding Commission with the sole purpose of supporting countries emerging from conflict. This article briefly describes some of the reasons behind the Commission's creation; its task, mandate and design, and gives an account of controversies in the negotiation process leading up to the World Summit and beyond. Furthermore, it spells out some implications for German foreign policy. While the Commission's creation is a significant step for improving the UN's peacebuilding capacities, its effects will remain limited unless member states show credible financial and political commitment and overcome areas of conflict which affected the negotiation process.
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Towards a Security Governance Agenda in Post-Conflict Peacebuilding
Alan Bryden
The decision to create a United Nations Peacebuilding Commission demonstrates the international cornmunity's recognition of the need for further efforts to prevent the recurrence of conflict in fragile States. Indeed, there are still considerable gaps in the development of concepts, policies and practice that would facilitate post-conflict peacebuilding and rnake it more effective. One such gap lies in the security dimension of post-conflict peacebuilding. Applying a security governance approach to the range of security issues that must be addressed by both post-conflict societies and the international community provides a means to better understand the opportunities for more effective and coordinated international efforts to build up domestic capacity for the provision of security.
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Das Treuhandsystem der Vereinten Nationen als Mittel zum Peacebuilding?
Patrick Sutter
With the end of the Cold War a more pronounced view on states' domestic responsibilities emerged, as states are today understood to be internationally liable for their domestic conducts. In parallel the humanitarian principle to safeguard populations at risk, among others, accords the international community a right to intervene into states' domestic affairs. This article argues that the right of self determination paired with the right of intervention legalizes international nation- and peacebuilding efforts under the terms of the UN charter's long-forgotten provisions on trusteeships. It argues that these provisions allow a country's inhabitants or its eventual legitimate occupying power to transfer states to trustee status and thus UN guardianship. Trusteeship law could so serve as the legal basis for effective UN peacebuilding efforts.
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Das Recht der staatlichen Selbstverteidigung: von der zulässigen Ausnahme zur rechtswidrigen Regel?
Dirk Hasler
With the wording of Art. 51 Charter of the United Nations, the right of self-defense is »inherent« to every sovereign nation. But while Art. 51 was originally intended as a narrow exception to the principle of collective security (as legal positivists still say today), its interpretation has been broadened constantly. The main argument is, that state sovereignty itself bears this right and obliges to its exercise if deemed necessary. In the light of state philosophy and history of ideas, this argumentation is revisited.
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Das Gewaltverbot auf dem Prüfstand: Von der NATO-Intervention im Kosovo zu den aktuellen UN-Reformvorschlägen
Peter Hilpold/Cudrun Zagel
At the moment, an intense debate on the need to reform the United Nations is taking place. The core issue of this discussion is the necessity to strengthen the peace securing capacities of the United Nations. This is a good occasion to examine the role of the prohibition of the use of force within the UN system, the exceptions to this rule and possible alternatives to this system. It will be shown that there is a clear necessity to respond more effectively to the challenges to peace and security in the 21th century. The respective proposals submitted recently by an Expert Group as well as by the UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan do not seem, however, to contain adequate solutions to these problems.
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