No cloak and dagger required: Intelligence support to UN peacekeeping

Johnston, Paul

doi:10.1080/02684529708432450

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“…This type of information can enable peacekeepers to generate virtuous cycles that reinforce peace by providing alternatives to individuals who may participate in violence (Leites & Wolf, 1970;Crouch, 2010). The lack of information has contributed to several of the major failures of UN peacekeeping in the 1990s, including the inability to assess factionalization in Bosnia, identify armed group leadership in Somalia, and appropriately assess risk in the DRC (Johnston, 1997;Bellamy, Williams & Griffin, 2010).…”

Section: Peacekeeping and Cooperationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cooperation, information, and keeping the peace

Gordon¹,

Young

2017

Journal of Peace Research

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Cultivating cooperation with local populations is necessary for peacekeeping operations to effectively prevent and reduce violence. To accomplish their missions in complex foreign theaters of operation, peacekeepers must solicit information about local political actors, social networks, and violence. Under what conditions do local populations cooperate with United Nations peacekeepers? How does exposure to peacekeeping security activities, relief activities, or abuse – three of the primary ways that local communities experience peacekeepers – affect the likelihood that individuals cooperate with peacekeepers by providing information to them? Using an original survey of a random sample of residents of metropolitan Port-au-Prince, Haiti, we show that people who are exposed to security and relief activities by the United Nations peacekeeping operation, MINUSTAH, have more positive opinions of how effective they are, and are more willing to cooperate with peacekeepers by providing them with information. On the other hand, exposure to abuse dramatically undermines civilian opinions of how effective, benevolent, and abusive peacekeepers are but has a smaller effect on cooperation. These findings present an opportunity and challenge for peacekeepers: if public opinion and cooperation are responsive to peacekeeper policy, then peacekeepers must deliver services and prevent abuse in order to solicit the cooperation that is necessary for mission success.

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Section: Peacekeeping and Cooperationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cooperation, information, and keeping the peace

Gordon¹,

Young

2017

Journal of Peace Research

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“…Percipirana kao perspektivna disciplina koja može da ispuni većinu 12 kritičnih informacionih potreba, "priority information requirements" (PIR) jedne mirovne operacije, 13 u eri konstantne degradacije karaktera i intenziteta oružanih sukoba, te virtuelno nekontrolisanog procesa globalizacije, kvalitetna eksploatacija OSINT discipline van sumnje ostaje "conditio sine qua non" i osnova obaveštajnog rada u mirovnim operacijama UN. 14 Iako ocenjena i kao disciplina sa brojnim ograničenjima, odnoseći se na pouzdanost izvora informacija, tačnost informacija, njihovu pravovremenost, preopterećenost informacijama, suprotnih tumačenja informacija, vrednost informacija etc., a što će u ovom istraživanju kroz niz aspekata i parametara biti provereno i istraženo, OSINT se smatra disciplinom upotrebljivom na svim nivoima, od taktičkog do strategijskog, te onom za čiji se kapacitet i ulogu kao primarni način za prikupljanje podataka, unapređenje situacione obaveštenosti i alata za rano upozorenje očekuje da u kontinuitetu samo raste, 15 obrnuto proporcionalno zahtevima za ulaganja u nju. 16 Posmatrano iz ugla organizacije UN, koliki je značaj upotrebe otvorenih izvora u podršci funkcionisanja mirovnih operacija UN u eri bez presedana po pitanju tehnološkog razvoja i napretka u domenu razmene informacija govori činjenica da Izveštaj ekspertskog panela organizacije UN iz 2014. godine o primeni novih tehnologija i inovacija u mirovnim operacijama UN ("Performance Peacekeeping") skoro u potpunosti -23 od 30 puta, koliko je izraz upotrebljen -percipira analitičku delatnost u službi mirovnih operacija UN upravo na eksploataciji otvorenih izvora.…”

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