Beyond the mystery of the Rwanda ‘black box’: Political will and early warning

Piiparinen, Touko

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“…In the context of new wars, the idea can be illustrated by the failure of the UN to stop the genocide in Rwanda in 1994, which has typically been explained by the absence of adequate early warning systems (cf. Piiparinen, 2006). Speaking more generally, relevant information may under certain conditions be accessible only through transnational actors.…”

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Transnational Actors in Global Governance

2010

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Transnational Actors in Global Governance

2010

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“…As in every other situation, effective action to prevent or mitigate new wars requires correct and comprehensive information about the problem to be addressed. For example, the failure of the UN to stop the 1994 genocide in Rwanda is conventionally explained by the absence of adequate early-warning systems (but see Piiparinen 2006 for objections to this viewpoint). What is more, the information that is relevant to prevent or mitigate new wars may be accessible only by private actors.…”

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Agné¹

2022

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For a robust long-standing interest in this book project, and effectiveness once there was a manuscript to review, I also thank Alex Pettifer at Edward Elgar, as well as the whole team of editors who entered the process later with the same diligence.My sense of gratitude also goes to participants in seminars where I have presented excerpts at WZB (Wissenschaftszentrum) in Berlin, LSE (London School of Economics and Political Science) in London, the Departments of Political Science in Uppsala and Stockholm (all in 2019), the meetings of BISA (British International Studies Association) in London (2015) and SWEPSA (Swedish Political Science Association) in Stockholm ( 2013), and the reviewers either of the whole manuscript or of the excerpts that have appeared as journal articles in earlier versions. The intellectual challenges and support by more people than I can name on these occasions have been a source of joy and inspiration. The material support for this research has not followed the same trajectory and does not incur the same number of thanks, unfortunately. Funding decisions are ships built for sailing in calm waters. Still, the sometime adventurous local management of collaborative research grants by Christer Jönsson (Transdemos 2008-13) and by Jonas Tallberg (Transaccess 2008-13, LegGov 2016 resulted in streams of funding also for the requisite studies of this book while creating enjoyable, relevant and productive research environments. To help with the actual book writing once the research was done, I also received a grant from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond to spend a sabbatical year at the universities of Catania and Oxford. Without such material support my work would still be far from finished.

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“…Political will and the lack of it is the most widely cited reason for government success or failure (Carbonetti, Pomeroy, & Richards, ; Malena, ; Persson & Sjöstedt, ; Piiparinen, ; Post et al, ; Quah, ). Political will has not only been attributed to the explanation of success and failure and inactions of good governance and anti‐corruption, but also in a wider scope including economic reforms (Hope, ), debt relief (Atkinson, ), terrorism (Burite & Gridneff, ), environmental protection (Ng, ; Rigg & Hmaidan, ), health reform (Brinkerhoff, ; Moore, ; NHS, ; Pagliccia & Pérez, ), education reform (Little, ; Marrin, ), conflict (Piiparinen, ; Woocher, ), and fisheries (Carbonetti et al, ). To this end, there is the need for government's commitment and that the absence of political will at the top is the result of lack of commitment to law enforcement and to punish the corrupt (Brinkerhoff, , p. 240; Hopkinson & Pelizzo, ).…”

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Political will and government anti‐corruption efforts: What does the evidence say?

Ankamah

Khoda²

2017

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Summary "Political will" is oft-cited as the major obstacle to government's anti-corruption efforts. Notwithstanding, there is remarkably little systematic analysis of the concept, with some scholars describing it as the "slipperiest concept in the policy lexicon," whereas others are calling for its empirical relevance. This paper tries to unpack the "black box" of political will by making it an empirically relevant concept drawing on evidence from two Asian countries; Singapore and Bangladesh. Four key indicators based on the works of earlier scholars are used including origin of the initiative; comprehension and extent of analysis; credible sanctions; and resource dedication and sustenance are used.

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Beyond the mystery of the Rwanda ‘black box’: Political will and early warning

Cited by 22 publications

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Political will and government anti‐corruption efforts: What does the evidence say?

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