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Violating Peace : Sex, Aid, and Peacekeeping by Jasmine-Kim Westendorf; ProQuest (Firm) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Violating Peace : Sex, Aid, and Peacekeeping about?

This book investigates sexual misconduct by military peacekeepers and abuses perpetrated by civilian peacekeepers and non-UN civilian interveners. Based on extensive field research in Bosnia, Timor-Leste, and with the UN and humanitarian communities, the book uncovers a brutal truth about peacebuilding as it investigates how such behaviors affect the capacity of the international community to achieve its goals related to stability and peacebuilding, and its legitimacy in the eyes of local and global populations. As the book shows, when interveners perpetrate sexual exploitation and abuse, they undermine the operational capacity of the international community to effectively build peace after civil wars and to alleviate human suffering in crises. Furthermore, sexual misconduct by interveners poses a significant risk to the perceived legitimacy of the multilateral peacekeeping project, and the United Nations more generally, with ramifications for the nature and dynamics of United Nations in future peace operations. The book illustrates how sexual exploitation and abuse relates to other challenges facing UN peacekeeping, and shows how such misconduct is deeply linked to the broader cul

Who reads Violating Peace : Sex, Aid, and Peacekeeping?

Author

Jasmine-Kim Westendorf; ProQuest (Firm)

Publisher

Lightning Source Inc. (Tier 3)

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9781501748066

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, Social Science, True Crime