Friction and Inequality among Peacekeepers in Mali

Cold-Ravnkilde, Signe Marie; Albrecht, Peter; Haugegaard, Rikke

doi:10.1080/03071847.2017.1328810

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“…Such insecurities -and hardship -extended beyond work. Nicholas continued, alluding to the inequalities within missions in terms of access to resources, which ultimately shape the distribution of danger and supplies (see Cold-Ravnkilde et al, 2017):…”

Section: Policing In Peacekeepingmentioning

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Assembling Community Policing: Peacekeeping and the Ghana Police Service’s Transformation Agenda

Albrecht¹

2022

Cont. J. Afr. Stud.

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This article shows how peacekeeping experiences manifest in the Ghana Police Service’s (GPS) community policing strategies and practices in often inconspicuous and individualized ways. Peacekeeping constitutes an important element of what the article refers to as the community policing assemblage. However, the article emphasises that the shape of the community policing assemblage is conditioned by a wide range of discourses and practices beyond peacekeeping. Global and national policies and strategies relating to policing, including the GPS’s own transformation agenda, local and individual interpretations and translations of peacekeeping experiences and what community policing means, all play into how the assemblage is formed. Thus, the article disentangles the effects of peacekeeping and puts it in the context of broader policing in Ghana, based on in-depth interviews and observations with police officers, mainly from the GPS’s community policing headquarters in Tesano, Accra. It concludes that while several studies have shown how peacekeeping has shaped Ghana’s security institutions and sense of role in the world, it has not been able to chip away at or counteract the deep and deepening control that security institutions in the country are subjected to by politicians. Arguing that the peacekeeping experience may have a profound transformative effect on individual police officers, yet little if any impact in terms of depoliticising the GPS and policing more broadly, is a less sweeping conclusion. However, suggesting that the effects of peacekeeping often are local and individualized, at times deeply embodied experiences, is also a more accurate conclusion empirically.

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Section: Policing In Peacekeepingmentioning

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Assembling Community Policing: Peacekeeping and the Ghana Police Service’s Transformation Agenda

Albrecht¹

2022

Cont. J. Afr. Stud.

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“…Nous assistons donc à une forme de « retraditionnalisation » (ou d'invention des traditions coercitives) par le haut qui n'est pas sans rappeler l'indirect rule de l'époque coloniale 109 . même manière et ne bénéficient pas du même équipement : sur les 101 personnes tuées lors des premiers mois de l'intervention au Mali, 7 étaient des ressortissants de pays européens, et 91 de pays africains, notamment du Tchad 114 .…”

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L’Afrique militarisée : perspectives historiques

Scheele¹

2021

Politique Africaine

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Au regard du poids accru du paradigme sécuritaire dans l’engagement international en l’Afrique, il semble envisageable de parler d’une « militarisation » du continent. Or cette militarisation n’est pas nouvelle, ni irréversible ou unidirectionnelle, ni le seul fait d’interventions externes. Cet article vise à passer en revue quelques moments forts de la militarisation de l’Afrique, en différents lieux et à différentes époques, afin d’en cerner les effets structurels et structurants, et de mieux en saisir les dynamiques actuelles.

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“…Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) reinforce cultural differences between (predominantly male) African and European military peacekeepers which in turn determine how dangerous roles and functions, as well as mission supplies are allocated (Cold-Ravnkilde et al 2017). African soldiers deployed in their national battalions and companies disproportionately suffered and experienced higher death tolls than European peacekeepers, who tended to work in the more protected UN compounds and in strategic roles within the mission head office.…”

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Feminist institutionalism

2020

United Nations Peace Operations and International Relations Theory

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Friction and Inequality among Peacekeepers in Mali

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Assembling Community Policing: Peacekeeping and the Ghana Police Service’s Transformation Agenda

Assembling Community Policing: Peacekeeping and the Ghana Police Service’s Transformation Agenda

L’Afrique militarisée : perspectives historiques

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