Synopses & Reviews
NGOs have become one of the main instruments in building peace, especially as UN sanctioned peacekeeping missions begin to streamline or withdraw from countries and bilateral peacekeeping sponsored by powerful states. During the last three decades, the UN has relied more and more on NGOs and sub-contractors in peacebuilding. The greater the number of multidimensional challenges and dilemmas that emerge for these NGOs, the more are the sponsoring governments and intergovernmental organizations and host states directly affected by these transitional efforts. Henry F. Carey analyzes the difficult choices, consequences and lessons learned from the UN and foreign governments commissioning NGOs and other subcontractors working on six peacebuilding policy goals: reconciliation, security, human rights, the rule of law, foreign aid, and election monitoring. The study examines the effects of the UN and powerful states increasingly relying on NGO peacebuilding in diverse cases like Bosnia, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Haiti, Liberia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Sudan, the Philippines, Chechnya, Iraq, Pakistan, and Afghanistan.
Synopsis
With inevitable major economic and political transformations ahead, NGOs need to acknowledge and manage their policy dilemmas so that they can anticipate the many inevitable problems that consistently arise in attempting to avoid the return of war by building peace over the medium to long-term
Synopsis
This book provides a detailed analysis of the contributions, constraints and opportunities available for nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in peacemaking and peacebuilding. This book will critically appraise both NGO assets, such as their typical idealism, organizing talents and mediation capabilities, as well as their deficits (including the NGO tendency to polarize and to politicize, to disorganize and to destabilize, and to delegitimate and at once to legitimate) and to make recommendations for more effective interventions.
Synopsis
This book provides a detailed analysis of the contributions, constraints and opportunities available for nongovernmental organizations in peacemaking and peacebuilding.
About the Author
Henry F. Carey is in the Department of Political Science at Georgia State University.
Table of Contents
Introduction * The Dilemma over Coordination and Accountability * The Negotiation Dilemma * The Repressive State Dilemma * The Politicized Law Enforcement Dilemma * Securitization of Humanitarianism and Development * Relief Versus Development Dilemma * Ethnocentricity Dilemma * Conclusion Introduction * The Dilemma over Coordination and Accountability * The Negotiation Dilemma * The Repressive State Dilemma * The Politicized Law Enforcement Dilemma * Securitization of Humanitarianism and Development * Relief Versus Development Dilemma * Ethnocentricity Dilemma * Conclusion