Resisting Ownership: The Paralysis of EU Peacebuilding in the Congo

Rayroux, Antoine; Wilén, Nina

doi:10.1080/19392206.2014.880030

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“…Deficient local ownership, one way or another, has been registered not only in places where the EU is well known for its executive interventions, heavy footprint, and trusteeship governance as in Bosnia (Tolksdorf, 2014;Vandemoortele, 2012) and Kosovo (Collantes-Celador & Juncos, 2011;Kappler & LemayHébert, 2015;Qehaja, 2017). The EU's record on local ownership has also been less than satisfactory in most other interventions launched further afield, for example, in Afghanistan (Larivé, 2012, p. 194), Congo (Rayroux & Wilén, 2014), Georgia (Freire & Simão, 2013, p. 467), or Somalia (Oksamytna, 2011). According to the EU's own lessons learned reports, one of the key weaknesses of the EU's support to SSR has been the lack of local ownership (European Union, 2016c, p. 2).…”

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Reclaiming the local in EU peacebuilding: Effectiveness, ownership, and resistance

Ejdus

Juncos

2017

Contemporary Security Policy

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Reclaiming the local in EU peacebuilding: Effectiveness, ownership, and resistance

Ejdus

Juncos

2017

Contemporary Security Policy

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“…Little in practice has changed in policy conception or results since these first missions (see Keukeleire and Delreux 2015;Rayroux and Wilén 2014). The Lisbon Treaty's focus on institutional arrangements to bring consistency to EU foreign policy will continue to reproduce the same shortcomings if a narrow, piecemeal approach reflecting the predominance of western liberal ideas continues unquestioned in policymaking circles.…”

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Linking peacebuilding, rule of law and security sector reform: the European Union’s experience

Cravo

2015

Asia Eur J

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The rule of law and security sector reform have become central to peacebuilding initiatives in the past decade and a half, accompanying a surge in international interventions in the periphery. Considered of critical importance to the re-establishment of order and the promotion of peace and development, these two areas of reform have gained importance and, today, feature as priorities in the European Union's external action beyond its immediate neighbourhood. Such policies, however, have often failed to achieve their stated goals. After reviewing the theoretical relationship between peacebuilding, rule of law reform and security sector reform, this article draws on the Union's practice to argue that a narrow, formalistic approach to rule of law and security sector reform, one that prioritises the transplantation of a western liberal legal framework, has undermined the aims of curbing instability and fostering development.

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“…Local authorities and civil societies are identified as actors with whom the EU should work (EU 2016a, p. 31). When it comes to implementation, empirical studies consistently identify the want of input legitimacy as one of the biggest problems for EU operations (Dursun-Ozkanca and Vandemoortele 2012, Rayroux andWilén 2014, Qehaja andPrezelj 2017). Ejdus (2017, p. 468) furthermore argues that the Union experiences some specific problems when implementing local ownership as its crisis management is "additionally hampered by the politics and policy-making of CSDP".…”

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The double proximity paradox in peacebuilding: implementation and perception of the EU rule of law mission in Kosovo

Osland

Peter

2019

European Security

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This contribution increases the understanding of the EU's role in post-conflict settings by exploring perceptions of EULEX by local rule of law experts. Drawing on critical peacebuilding and the decline of normative power Europe literatures, we develop an analytical framework, underlining the importance of the intentionimplementation gap and the implementation-perception gap in understanding how EU missions are perceived. By comparing local expert narratives to those of EULEX judges, prosecutors, and legal officers, we contend that the core problem for the negative perception of the mission results from what we call the double proximity paradox in peacebuilding. The first paradox is one of implementation and transpires when an actor commits substantial resources to address structural problems in a post-conflict territory due to its centrality for its own interests, but fails to uphold its commitment as its immediate interests can only be achieved through agents who contribute to these problems. The second paradox relates to perception and transpires as high commitments raise expectations of structural impact. The visibility of the actor's investment makes any implementation failures more tangible. The actor is therefore, paradoxically, the most open to criticism in a territory where it is doing the most.

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Resisting Ownership: The Paralysis of EU Peacebuilding in the Congo

Cited by 24 publications

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Reclaiming the local in EU peacebuilding: Effectiveness, ownership, and resistance

Reclaiming the local in EU peacebuilding: Effectiveness, ownership, and resistance

Linking peacebuilding, rule of law and security sector reform: the European Union’s experience

The double proximity paradox in peacebuilding: implementation and perception of the EU rule of law mission in Kosovo

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