Journal article
Developing peace: the evolution of development goals and activities in United Nations peacekeeping
- Abstract:
- Peacekeeping and development assistance are two of the United Nations’ (UN) defining activities. While there have been extensive studies of UN engagement in each of these areas, respectively, less attention has been given to the relationship between peacekeeping and development. We examine that relationship in this article. We do so by first considering whether concepts and principles that underpin peacekeeping and development cohere. We then combine original quantitative data with qualitative analyses in order to document the degree to which development goals and activities have been incorporated into UN peacekeeping operations since their inception over 70 years ago. While we observe a steady increase in the level of engagement of peacekeeping with development over time, we argue that short-term security goals have been prioritized over longer-term development objectives in a number of recent UN peacekeeping operations, as peacekeepers have been deployed to contexts of ongoing conflict.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1080/13600818.2021.1924126
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- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Journal:
- Oxford Development Studies More from this journal
- Volume:
- 49
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- 201-229
- Publication date:
- 2021-06-08
- Acceptance date:
- 2021-03-27
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1469-9966
- ISSN:
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1360-0818
- Language:
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English
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- Pubs id:
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1170926
- Local pid:
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pubs:1170926
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2021-04-12
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- Copyright holder:
- Gledhill et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2021
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- © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.
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