The Missing Link Revisited: Peace building from integration to impact in post-conflict Liberia
(2009) STVM11 20091Department of Political Science
- Abstract
- In contemporary conflict environments, security and development are inextricably linked. This has spawned the development of the comprehensive approach to peace support operations. But there is a deficit of studies validating that integration and coherence will lead to positive outcomes and higher degrees of effectiveness. There is also a gap between strategic planning and operative implementation.
The aims of this thesis are to develop an analytical framework for monitoring and evaluation and test it in a case study to investigate the role of integration, coherence and cooperation in the production of positive outcomes. Based on the method of process-tracing, an interactive perspective on structure and agency and theories on the civil –... (More) - In contemporary conflict environments, security and development are inextricably linked. This has spawned the development of the comprehensive approach to peace support operations. But there is a deficit of studies validating that integration and coherence will lead to positive outcomes and higher degrees of effectiveness. There is also a gap between strategic planning and operative implementation.
The aims of this thesis are to develop an analytical framework for monitoring and evaluation and test it in a case study to investigate the role of integration, coherence and cooperation in the production of positive outcomes. Based on the method of process-tracing, an interactive perspective on structure and agency and theories on the civil – military dilemma, a reflexive analytical framework is developed to analyse the UN mission in Liberia in the transition period from 2003 – 2006. Based on the analytical model the case is divided into three phases and analysed accordingly.
The conclusions are that cooperation enabled by integrated structures is a primary driver producing positive outcomes in the operational setting, while lack of strategic coherence hampers the transition to long-term positive outcomes.
The analytical framework is a useful tool for monitoring, but needs to be complemented with evaluation tools. (Less)
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- author
- Holmgren, Erik LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- STVM11 20091
- year
- 2009
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- Comprehensive intervention, UN, Liberia, Process-tracing, Peace-building
- language
- English
- id
- 1405463
- date added to LUP
- 2009-06-23 09:26:34
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- 2009-06-23 09:26:34
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