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The Diplomatic Leading Role to the UN and the Concerns for Protection and Stabilisation in Peace Operations

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This communication develops a "micro" theoretical perspective aimed at dealing with the concerns for both protection of civilians and political stabilization within the contemporary liberal interventionism in peripheral armed conflicts. It wittingly pays poor heed to supposedly coherent pre-existent motivations as a drive for action into the complex organizations that compose the international armed conflict managers, and prioritizes the investigation on the flux of social practices that relate international actors and local belligerents. The former necessarily emerge as co-producers of local political orders or governances, well before "critical moments" posing the security threats we are dealing with here. Supported by the current practice turn in IR and security studies, I focus on one informal role UN diplomats collectively acknowledge to some specific diplomatic delegations on specific dossiers to the Security Council: the leading role. This role brings to question the connections between aloof diplomatic processes that take place among diplomats in New York and the stark rhythm of events driven locally by political-military entrepreneurs, regarding the exchange of deterring or incentive messages embedded in routine UNSC decisions, and the way routine practices may change when facing critical situations. Three study cases - Rwanda (1990-1994), Sierra Leone (1991-2002) and Zaire (1996-1997) - exemplify my argument.
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halshs-00603033 , version 1 (24-06-2011)

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David Ambrosetti. The Diplomatic Leading Role to the UN and the Concerns for Protection and Stabilisation in Peace Operations. European Conference on African Studies, Jun 2011, Uppsala, Sweden. ⟨halshs-00603033⟩
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