Understanding Mission Environments: Local Contexts and the Legitimation of Reforms

Author: Marenin, Otwin

Source: Journal of International Peacekeeping, Volume 14, Numbers 3-4, September 2010 , pp. 223-247(25)

Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, an imprint of Brill

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Abstract:

Effective and sustainable police- and peace-building reforms require that international interveners and implementers have sufficient knowledge of the political, social and cultural complexities of local environments in which they will attempt reforms. Essential aspects of local mission environments on which information needs to be collected and taught to international interveners are outlined, as are some of the policy implications for planning and implementing sustainable reforms.

Keywords: POLICE-BUILDING; LOCAL DYNAMICS; RELEVANT KNOWLEDGE; TRAINING; SATISFICING; DISCRETION; STAKE-HOLDERS

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/187541110X504337

Publication date: 2010-09-01