The local turn and the framing of UNOCI’s mandated activities by the UN

Gilder, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8861-1433 (2020) The local turn and the framing of UNOCI’s mandated activities by the UN. Journal of International Peacekeeping, 23 (3-4). pp. 226-248. ISSN 1875-4112 doi: 10.1163/18754112-20200007

Abstract/Summary

This article engages specifically with the local turn in UN peace operations by looking at local engagement and empowerment in the UN Operation in Côte d’Ivoire. After the closure of a long-serving UN peace operation it is important to take stock of the activities pursued under the mandate and reflect on how the mission has contributed to peacekeeping practice. UN peace operations have increasingly undertaken peacebuilding activities at the local level with current literature emphasising the need to involve local actors in decision-making and reconciliation activities. In seeking to uncover how the UN understands the need to involve local actors, the mission activities of UNOCI are broken down into a number of themes looking at how the local are engaged, given agency and empowered, and also where the UN recognises specific vulnerabilities of persons. The article shows how the UN portrays its activities and where it has either expressly or impliedly sought to demonstrate a concern for the local in Côte d’Ivoire.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/101392
Identification Number/DOI	10.1163/18754112-20200007
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Arts, Humanities and Social Science > School of Law
Publisher	Brill
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