UN Peacekeeping Intelligence: The ASIFU Experiment

Rietjens, Sebastiaan; Waard, Erik de

doi:10.1080/08850607.2017.1297108

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“…Over the past 70 years peacekeeping has developed at the level of precedents, which were marked in the UN Charter and UN Security Council Resolutions (mandates), and adopted following a unanimous decision by the five permanent members of the UN Security Council (Gardell and Verbeek, 2021). At the same time, the research discourse has looked at issues such as the provision of mandates to combat terrorism and violent extremism (Kalyadin, 2016), problems and prospects for the development of partnerships between the UN and regional actors in matters of peacekeeping (Bara and Hultman, 2020), use of knowledge-intensive dual-use technologies in the activities of peacekeeping missions (Andrews, 2017), intelligence in peacekeeping (Rietjens and De Waard, 2017), and issues of logistics and funding (Coleman, 2017).…”

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Topical issues of the use of peacekeeping operations in modern realities, including the military and police component: A case study of the UN and regional organizations

Akhmedov,

Shalkarova,

Egorov

et al. 2023

International Journal of Police Science & Management

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This study systematizes and analyzes the legal aspects of changes in the deployment of international peacekeeping forces over the past 50 years. The article deals with topical political and legal problems facing the peacekeeping activities of the United Nations (UN) and regional international organizations. These problems emanate from both natural institutional and artificially created factors. Overcoming the challenges ahead is possible only through the development of multilateral diplomacy, the aim of which is to achieve long-term and realizable agreements to resolve conflicts and establish lasting and sustainable peace. The study analyzes the role, effect, and potential of peacekeeping operations under the auspices of the UN and other regional international organizations to ensure international security as a timely response to legal and institutional challenges related to the interests of certain players in the world arena, where Russia and some countries in Europe and Asia have been affected.

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Topical issues of the use of peacekeeping operations in modern realities, including the military and police component: A case study of the UN and regional organizations

Akhmedov,

Shalkarova,

Egorov

et al. 2023

International Journal of Police Science & Management

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“…These units possessed sophisticated technological systems and had intelligence professionals that were trained according to NATO regulations. Despite this, however, many of ASIFU’s soldiers lacked awareness of the complexity of the conflict, the history of Mali and ethnic sensitivities (see, for example, Rietjens and de Waard, 2017). They also hardly mastered French or Arabic, let alone the local Malian languages that were spoken.…”

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“…From 2014 and 2017, MINUSMA’s Force Commander and his sector chiefs realized that they lacked adequate current intelligence on crucial safety and security issues such as the threat along MINUSMA’s main supply routes and the whereabouts of armed groups. According to many of the respondents, this was largely due to the ineffectiveness of the regular UN intelligence capabilities (see also Rietjens and de Waard, 2017). To improve the situation, the Force Commander asked ASIFU to fill this gap, although ASIFU’s original task was to provide comprehensive intelligence in the mid- and long terms.…”

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Meaning making in peacekeeping missions: mandate interpretation and multinational collaboration in the UN mission in Mali

Ruffa

Rietjens

2022

European Journal of International Relations

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Peacekeeping helps to prevent conflict and to protect civilians. But how does it work to achieve those aims? Notwithstanding a growing recognition that peacekeeping mandates alone do not directly determine what actually happens in the field, we still know little about how—once deployed—military units translate an ambiguous mandate into action. In this paper, we focus on one dimension of peacekeepers’ behavior that has become increasingly important, namely, how peacekeepers relate to other military units with whom they are supposed to implement their mandate. We systematically document how mandate interpretations emerge and how they influence peacekeepers’ understanding of other troops they work with. Central to this is peacekeepers’ meaning making, a concept we borrow from the sociological literature, which refers to the common and human process through which individuals give meaning to their surrounding context. Drawing on nearly 120 interviews with peacekeepers deployed to the United Nations (UN) mission in Mali (2014–2019), we identify three different ways by which peacekeepers interpret their mandate and interact with other contingents: Voltaire’s garden; building bridges; and othering. Acknowledging peacekeepers’ agency and the social dimension of peacekeeping has important implications for both scholarly and policy debates.

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“…Meanwhile, the nation-building mission of MINUSMA also implied a strong need for medium to long-term intelligence on macro-level societal developments. From missions in Afghanistan and Iraq, the UN had learned that a (traditional) security-oriented intelligence chain is not sufficient in the context of nation-building (Rietjens and De Waard 2017). That is, knowledge on macro-level societal developments was needed to develop a broader societal awareness.…”

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Learning in complex public systems: the case of MINUSMA’s intelligence organization

Waard

Rietjens

Romme

et al. 2021

Public Management Review

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UN Peacekeeping Intelligence: The ASIFU Experiment

Cited by 12 publications

References 13 publications

Topical issues of the use of peacekeeping operations in modern realities, including the military and police component: A case study of the UN and regional organizations

Topical issues of the use of peacekeeping operations in modern realities, including the military and police component: A case study of the UN and regional organizations

Meaning making in peacekeeping missions: mandate interpretation and multinational collaboration in the UN mission in Mali

Learning in complex public systems: the case of MINUSMA’s intelligence organization

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