Peacekeeping and the Protection of Civilians
From Moral Imperative to Effective Practice
Published on 30. June 2025
166 pages
978-1-040-39351-2 (ISBN)
Description
This book critically examines the evolution of protection practices in UN peace operations over the past two decades.
Protecting civilians has become central to the work of contemporary UN peace operations, yet the ability of peacekeepers to offer meaningful levels of protection to vulnerable civilians in conflict zones remains highly circumscribed. Focusing on the implementation of protection of civilians (PoC) mandates across three high-profile UN missions - UNMISS in South Sudan, MONUSCO in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and MINUSCA in the Central African Republic - this study asks who precisely UN peacekeepers protect and how they go about protecting them. Drawing on the key distinction between coercive and non-coercive protection strategies, this book examines how peacekeepers have struggled to translate ambitious and far-reaching protection mandates into effective protection practices in some of the world's most dangerous and difficult conflict contexts.
This book will be of much interest to students of peacekeeping, civilian protection, African politics, war studies and security studies.
Protecting civilians has become central to the work of contemporary UN peace operations, yet the ability of peacekeepers to offer meaningful levels of protection to vulnerable civilians in conflict zones remains highly circumscribed. Focusing on the implementation of protection of civilians (PoC) mandates across three high-profile UN missions - UNMISS in South Sudan, MONUSCO in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and MINUSCA in the Central African Republic - this study asks who precisely UN peacekeepers protect and how they go about protecting them. Drawing on the key distinction between coercive and non-coercive protection strategies, this book examines how peacekeepers have struggled to translate ambitious and far-reaching protection mandates into effective protection practices in some of the world's most dangerous and difficult conflict contexts.
This book will be of much interest to students of peacekeeping, civilian protection, African politics, war studies and security studies.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
File size
6,63 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-040-39351-2 (9781040393512)
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Timothy Donais
Peacekeeping and the Protection of Civilians
From Moral Imperative to Effective Practice
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06/2025
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Timothy Donais is a Professor in the Department of Global Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University and at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, both in Canada. He is author of Peacebuilding and Local Ownership: Post-Conflict Consensus-Building (2012) and The Political Economy of Peacebuilding in Post-Dayton Bosnia (2005).
Content
1 Introduction: Situating Protection in Peacekeeping Contexts 2 Robust Protection Debates 3 Non-coercive Protection: Protection by Peaceful Means? 4 All Necessary Means, with an Asterisk: How UNMISS has Operationalized its PoC Mandate 5 MONUSCO: Innovation without Transformation? 6 Protecting Civilians and Expanding State Authority in the Central African Republic 7 Conclusion: PoC's Uneven Past and Uncertain Future
