Publikasjoner

The UN Mission and Local Churches in South Sudan: Opportunities for Partnerships in Local Peacebuilding

Training in Vain? Bottlenecks in Deploying Civilians for UN Peacekeeping

UN peacekeeping missions suffer from cumbersome recruitment processes, high vacancy rates and a shortage of civilian staff. This article explores the bottlenecks hampering the recruitment and deployment of trained personnel, especially civilians. Paradoxically, an increased number of trained personnel has not translated into higher deployment rates. Individual factors and structural bottlenecks together accounted for half of the nondeployments. Of the latter, the informal nature of the UN’s recruitment system and the central role played by personal contacts stands out. The article makes the case for an improved link between the recruitment architecture of the UN and its training programmes, and a significant overhaul of the UN recruitment architecture per se. Unless the UN and international training programmes address this paradox, the risk of training in vain will remain.

Bitre piller å svelge: siviliserende skatteregimer og IMF

China, Energy Security and Central Asian Diplomacy: Bilateral and Mulitlateral Approaches

Police reform in Pakistan: a victim of foreign security aid?

Development Studies in Norway: Major Trends in Discourse and Practice

An award to the complaints?

International Security in Practice: The Politics of NATO-Russia Diplomacy

Chronicle of a Frustration Foretold? The Implementation of a Broad Protection Agenda in the United Nations

Looking Back when Looking Forward: Peacebuilding Policy Approaches and Processes in Africa