Sexual Exploitation and Abuse in UN Peacekeeping: An by Kelly Neudorfer

March 16, 2017 adminWar Peace

By Kelly Neudorfer

While serving in United international locations peacekeeping missions, a few peacekeepers sexually take advantage of and abuse the neighborhood inhabitants, a truth which erupted right into a scandal released via many media shops in 2005 and 2006. This publication analyzes elements that can raise the danger of such habit in addition to measures the UN has taken that can have diminished the variety of incidents. utilizing a combined tools layout, the booklet argues that earlier analyses were mostly undertheorized—with the exception of gender theories—and turns to criminology to examine the phenomenon of so-called “Sexual Exploitation and Abuse” (SEA) in a brand new mild. the 3 hazard elements discovered to extend the chance of SEAs are an atmosphere of sexual violence within the mission’s host kingdom, the presence of internally displaced people on the subject of the venture, and a scarcity of supervised or regulated touch with the neighborhood inhabitants. In flip, the presence of an place of work whose objective is to assemble stories and examine allegations, education on combating SEAs for the incoming peacekeepers, and campaigns to empower the neighborhood inhabitants on those concerns all appear to lessen the danger of sexual exploitation and abuse taking place. through the use of a statistical research by way of case stories of the UN peacekeeping missions within the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Liberia, and the Golan Heights, the writer demonstrates the significance those components have within the peacekeepers’ habit at the project, offering an effective foundation upon which destiny coverage thoughts could be made.

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