John Karlsrud
Seniorforsker, leder for Forskningsgruppen for fred, konflikt og utviklingJohn Karlsrud (PhD) er seniorforsker og leder for Forskningsgruppen for fred, konflikt og utvikling ved NUPI.
Karlsrud tok doktorgraden ved University of Warwick. Han er medlem av redaktørrådene for Internasjonal Politikk og Contemporary Security Policy. Han har vært gjesteforsker i regi av Fulbright-programmet Center on International Cooperation ved New York University, og også vært gjesteforsker ved International Peace Institute.
Karlsrud er spesielt interessert i normendringer, fredsbevaring, fredsbygging og humanitære spørsmål. Han har tidligere vært rådgiver til FNs spesialutsending til Tsjad og som del av lederprogrammet LEAD (FNs utviklingsprogram). Hans nyeste artikkel er Towards UN counter-terrorism operations?(Third World Quarterly, 2017) og han vil snart publisere UN peace operations in the 21st century: The UN at war (Palgrave, 2018) og UN Peacekeeping Doctrine in a New Era (Routledge 2017, redigert med Cedric de Coning og Chiyuki Aoi). Han har nylig utgitt Norm Change in International Relations (Routledge, 2016) og The Future of African Peace Operations: From the Janjaweed to Boko Haram (Zed Books, 2016, redigert med Cedric de Coning og Linnéa Gelot). Hans artikkel "The UN at War: Examining the Consequences of Peace Enforcement Mandates for the UN Peacekeeping Operations in the CAR, the DRC and Mali" fra 2015 er den andre mest nedlastede artikkelen i Third World Quarterly.
Han har arbeidet i Bosnia og Hercegovina, Tsjad, Palestina (Vestbredden), Norge og USA, og har gjort feltarbeid og hatt kortere oppdrag i Haiti, Liberia, Mosambik, Serbia, Sierra Leona, Sør-Sudan og Ukraina.
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Publikasjon
: Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
United Nations peace operations and International Relations theory: An introduction
2020International Relations (IR) theories may seem abstract and arcane. With this book, we want to dispel this stereotype. The contributors to this volume demonstrate how IR theories can be applied to a very practical problem: UN peace operations, 1 one of the main instruments of international conflict management.... -
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Doing Less With More? The Difficult ‘Return’ of Western Troop Contributing Countries to United Nations Peacekeeping
2020FNs fredsbevarende operasjon i Mali - MINUSMA - har av mange forskere blitt beskrevet som 'retur' av vestlige troppebidragsytere til FNs fredsbevarende operasjoner i Afrika. Denne rapporten tar for seg hvorvidt det faktisk kan beskrives som en 'retur' og om disse styrkene har klart... -
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Assessing the Effectiveness of the United Nations Mission in Mali
Until 2016 MINUSMA managed to strengthen stability in northern Mali, decreasing the number of civilians killed in the conflict, and allowing large numbers of displaced persons to return home. MINUSMA also assisted the peace process, culminating in the 2015 Algiers Agreement. Many of these achievements... -
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United Nations Stabilization Operations: Chapter Seven and a Half
2019The UN Security Council has in recent years included the term ‘stabilization’ in the name of the operations deployed to Haiti, Democratic Republic of Congo, Mali and Central African Republic. But, are they stabilization operations? Although the concept has become increasingly popular in the UN context,... -
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: Rapport
Assessing the Effectiveness of the United Nations Mission in Mali (MINUSMA)
This report assesses the extent to which the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) is achieving its current strategic objectives, and the impact the Mission has had on the political and security situation in Mali. Until 2016 MINUSMA managed to strengthen stability in... -
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Norms and Practices in UN Peacekeeping: Evolution and Contestation
2019The four articles in this special section focus on norms in UN peacekeeping (gender, impartiality, human rights, and environmentalism) and how they are implemented in practice. They look at the evolution of these norms over time; take an explicit theoretical perspective (feminist institutionalism, norm... -
Nyheter
15 NUPI-forskere på firedagers maraton i internasjonal politikk
01.04.2019NUPI-forskere spilte en viktig rolle da verdens største konferanse for forskere innen internasjonale studier – ISA 2019 - gikk av stabelen i Canada. -
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15 NUPI-forskere på firedagers maraton i internasjonal politikk
01.04.2019NUPI-forskere spilte en viktig rolle da verdens største konferanse for forskere innen internasjonale studier – ISA 2019 - gikk av stabelen i Canada. -
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For the greater good?: “Good states” turning UN peacekeeping towards counterterrorism
2019The usual suspects of middle power internationalism—small and middle powers such as Canada, Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, and Sweden—have all contributed to the UN peacekeeping mission in Mali (MINUSMA). This article argues that while these and other Western countries’ contributions to MINUSMA may... -
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Predictive Peacekeeping: Strengthening Predictive Analysis in UN Peace Operations
2019The UN is becoming increasingly data-driven. Until recently, data-driven initiatives have mainly been led by individual UN field missions, but with António Guterres, the new Secretary-General, a more centralized approach is being embarked on. With a trend towards the use of data to support the work of... -
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: Kapittel
Conclusion: Military rapid response—from institutional investment to ad hoc solutions
2019The track record of military rapid response mechanisms, troops on standby, ready to be deployed to a crisis within a short time frame by intergovernmental organizations, remains disappointing. Yet, many of the obstacles to multinational actors launching a rapid and effective military response in times... -
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: Kapittel
Tangled up in glue: Multilateral crisis responses in Mali
The track record of military rapid response mechanisms, troops on standby, ready to be deployed to a crisis within a short time frame by intergovernmental organizations, remains disappointing. Yet, many of the obstacles to multinational actors launching a rapid and effective military response in times... -
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: Kapittel
Introduction: Rapid response mechanisms—strengthening defense cooperation and saving strangers?
2019The track record of military rapid response mechanisms, troops on standby, ready to be deployed to a crisis within a short time frame by intergovernmental organizations, remains disappointing. Yet, many of the obstacles to multinational actors launching a rapid and effective military response in times... -
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: Bok
Multinational Rapid Response Mechanisms: From Institutional Proliferation to Institutional Exploitation
2019The track record of military rapid response mechanisms, troops on standby, ready to be deployed to a crisis within a short time frame by intergovernmental organizations, remains disappointing. Yet, many of the obstacles to multinational actors launching a rapid and effective military response in times... -
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: Kapittel
WPS and Female Peacekeepers
The chapter provides an overview of the participation of female peacekeeping personnel in UN missions, tracing key target and agenda- setting policy events, as well as examining causes for the slow progress in female participation. The chapter considers female participation in the military, police, and... -
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: Kapittel
UN Peace Operations, Terrorism, and Violent Extremism
2019There are practical and financial reasons to give UN peace operations more robust mandates and mitigate and respond to violent extremism and terrorism. But the idea of UN peacekeepers conducting counter-terrorism operations is not without its challenges. Karlsrud argues that UN peace operations neither... -
Forskningsprosjekt
Nettverk for forskning på fredsoperasjoners effektivitet (EPON)
2018 - 2021 (Ongoing)NUPI har sammen med 40 partnere over hele verden etablert et internasjonalt nettverk for å forske på fredsoperasjoners effektivitet.
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Nyheter
Fire globale skifter endrer FNs fredsoperasjoner
23.10.2018Den globale orden er i endring. Hva skjer så med FNs fredsoperasjoner? Det er hovedspørsmålet i Cedric de Coning og Mateja Peters nye bok. -
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: Artikkel
Implementation in practice: The use of force to protect civilians in United Nations peacekeeping
2018Since the failures of the United Nations of the early 1990s, the protection of civilians has evolved as a new norm for United Nations peacekeeping operations. However, a 2014 United Nations report found that while peacekeeping mandates often include the use of force to protect civilians, this has routinely... -
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: Policy Brief
Predictive peacekeeping: opportunities and challenges
2018The time is ripe for the development of a UN early warning tool that estimates the likelihood of instability, intercommunity clashes and armed violence in areas in which UN peacekeepers operate. However, this development would require at least some initial collaboration between the UN and the scientific...