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Lokalt ägandeskap för en hållbar fred?: En komparativ fallstudie mellan UNAMSIL och UNMIS

Månsson, Frida LU and Thomasson, Louise LU (2018) FKVA22 20172
Department of Political Science
Abstract
Not long ago Sierra Leone and Sudan experienced violent civil wars and both situations were perceived by the UN to constitute a threat to international peace and security. Because of this, the UN deployed two different peace operations, UNAMSIL and UNMIS, which have had various success regarding Sierra Leone and Sudan’s current level of peace. This thesis aims to investigate if the degree of local ownership during a UN peace operation matters for a country's level of sustainable peace, and does so by a comparative case study between the two countries. Our theoretical framework consists of Timothy Donais, who claims that a peace process cannot be sustainable without local ownership, and John Paul Lederach’s peacebuilding pyramid and his... (More)
Not long ago Sierra Leone and Sudan experienced violent civil wars and both situations were perceived by the UN to constitute a threat to international peace and security. Because of this, the UN deployed two different peace operations, UNAMSIL and UNMIS, which have had various success regarding Sierra Leone and Sudan’s current level of peace. This thesis aims to investigate if the degree of local ownership during a UN peace operation matters for a country's level of sustainable peace, and does so by a comparative case study between the two countries. Our theoretical framework consists of Timothy Donais, who claims that a peace process cannot be sustainable without local ownership, and John Paul Lederach’s peacebuilding pyramid and his different divisions of the society. By analyzing implemented projects by UNAMSIL and UNMIS, the essay concludes that local ownership did play a part for the current level of peace in both countries. (Less)
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author
Månsson, Frida LU and Thomasson, Louise LU
supervisor
organization
course
FKVA22 20172
year
type
L2 - 2nd term paper (old degree order)
subject
keywords
Local ownership, Sustainable peace, United Nations, UNAMSIL, UNMIS, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Projects
language
Swedish
id
8931333
date added to LUP
2018-05-23 15:21:11
date last changed
2018-05-23 15:21:11
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  abstract     = {{Not long ago Sierra Leone and Sudan experienced violent civil wars and both situations were perceived by the UN to constitute a threat to international peace and security. Because of this, the UN deployed two different peace operations, UNAMSIL and UNMIS, which have had various success regarding Sierra Leone and Sudan’s current level of peace. This thesis aims to investigate if the degree of local ownership during a UN peace operation matters for a country's level of sustainable peace, and does so by a comparative case study between the two countries. Our theoretical framework consists of Timothy Donais, who claims that a peace process cannot be sustainable without local ownership, and John Paul Lederach’s peacebuilding pyramid and his different divisions of the society. By analyzing implemented projects by UNAMSIL and UNMIS, the essay concludes that local ownership did play a part for the current level of peace in both countries.}},
  author       = {{Månsson, Frida and Thomasson, Louise}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Lokalt ägandeskap för en hållbar fred?: En komparativ fallstudie mellan UNAMSIL och UNMIS}},
  year         = {{2018}},
}