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  • Publikasjon : Rapport

    Predict and prevent: overcoming early warning implementation challenges in UN peace operations

    2020
      • John Karlsrud
    The UN has made progress in the adoption of new technologies to predict and prevent local violence. To maintain the momentum, it needs to continue to innovate to be able to serve people in need faster, better, and more efficiently. The UN will need to find a way to analyse the enormous amount of data...
  • Publikasjon : Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

    United Nations peace operations and International Relations theory: An introduction

    2020
      • John Karlsrud
    FNs fredsoperasjoner har gjennomgått mange endringer i sin tredveårige eksistens. Multidimensjonale fredsoperasjoner har organisert valg, bidratt til levering av humanitær bistand, rådgitt militær- og politireform og kjempet mot rebellgrupper. Fredsoperasjoner representerer ikke bare en sentral pillar...
  • Publikasjon : Rapport

    Doing Less With More? The Difficult ‘Return’ of Western Troop Contributing Countries to United Nations Peacekeeping

    2020
      • John Karlsrud
    FNs 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...
  • Publikasjon : Rapport

    Assessing the Effectiveness of the United Nations Mission in Mali

    2019
      • John Karlsrud
      • Natasja Rupesinghe
    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...
  • Publikasjon : Artikkel

    United Nations Stabilization Operations: Chapter Seven and a Half

    2019
      • John Karlsrud
    The 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,...
  • Publikasjon : Rapport

    Assessing the Effectiveness of the United Nations Mission in Mali (MINUSMA)

    2019
      • Natasja Rupesinghe
      • John Karlsrud
    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...
  • Publikasjon : Artikkel

    Norms and Practices in UN Peacekeeping: Evolution and Contestation

    2019
      • John Karlsrud
    The 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...
  • Publikasjon : Artikkel

    For the greater good?: “Good states” turning UN peacekeeping towards counterterrorism

    2019
      • John Karlsrud
    The 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...
  • Publikasjon : Artikkel

    Predictive Peacekeeping: Strengthening Predictive Analysis in UN Peace Operations

    2019
      • John Karlsrud
    The 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...
  • Publikasjon : Kapittel

    Conclusion: Military rapid response—from institutional investment to ad hoc solutions

    2019
      • John Karlsrud
    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...
  • Publikasjon : Kapittel

    Tangled up in glue: Multilateral crisis responses in Mali

    2019
      • John Karlsrud
      • Natasja Rupesinghe
    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...
  • Publikasjon : Kapittel

    Introduction: Rapid response mechanisms—strengthening defense cooperation and saving strangers?

    2019
      • John Karlsrud
    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...
  • Publikasjon : Bok

    Multinational Rapid Response Mechanisms: From Institutional Proliferation to Institutional Exploitation

    2019
    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...
  • Publikasjon : Kapittel

    WPS and Female Peacekeepers

    2019
      • Natasja Rupesinghe
      • John Karlsrud
      • Eli Stamnes
    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...
  • Publikasjon : Kapittel

    UN Peace Operations, Terrorism, and Violent Extremism

    2019
      • John Karlsrud
    There 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...
  • Publikasjon : Artikkel

    Implementation in practice: The use of force to protect civilians in United Nations peacekeeping

    2018
      • John Karlsrud
    Since 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...
  • Publikasjon : Policy Brief

    Predictive peacekeeping: opportunities and challenges

    2018
      • John Karlsrud
    The 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...
  • Publikasjon : Artikkel

    From Liberal Peacebuilding to Stabilization and Counterterrorism

    2018
      • John Karlsrud
    Since the end of the Cold War, international interventions have increasingly been deployed to deal with internal conflict. Liberal peacebuilding has been a guiding concept for many of these interventions, in particular those deployed by the UN. This article argues that liberal peacebuilding is waning...
  • Publikasjon : Innsikt og kommentar

    Are UN Peacekeeping Missions Moving Toward "Chapter Seven and a Half Operations"?

    2018
      • John Karlsrud
    The combined effect of the inclusion of regional ad hoc coalitions with a strong orientation towards counter-insurgency and counterterrorism is the creation of a new type of “Chapter Seven and a Half” operations. Enforcement action is delegated to regional ad hoc coalitions that have a stronger interest...
  • Publikasjon : Bok

    The UN at War: Peace Operations in a New Era

    2018
      • John Karlsrud
    This book is a critical political and institutional reflection on UN peace operations. It provides constructive suggestions as to how the UN and the international system can evolve to remain relevant and tackle the peace and security challenges of the 21st century, without abandoning the principles that...
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