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Invitation withdrawn: humanitarian action, United Nations peacekeeping, and state sovereignty in Chad (2013)
Journal Article
Karlsrud, J., & Felix da Costa, D. (2013). Invitation withdrawn: humanitarian action, United Nations peacekeeping, and state sovereignty in Chad. Disasters, 37(s2), S171-S187. https://doi.org/10.1111/disa.12020

This paper looks at the three-way relationship between the Government of Chad, humanitarians, and the United Nations Mission in the Central African Republic and Chad (MINURCAT) from 2004 until June 2011. Chad was never comfortable with the internatio... Read More about Invitation withdrawn: humanitarian action, United Nations peacekeeping, and state sovereignty in Chad.

‘Bending the Rules’: The Space between HQ Policy and Local Action in UN Civilian Peacekeeping (2013)
Journal Article
Felix da Costa, D., & Karlsrud, J. (2013). ‘Bending the Rules’: The Space between HQ Policy and Local Action in UN Civilian Peacekeeping. Journal of International Peacekeeping, 17(3-4), 293-312. https://doi.org/10.1163/18754112-1704007

Recent literature has argued that a ‘dominant peacebuilding culture’ has precluded the contextualisation of peacebuilding to local dynamics. The article explores the ‘peacekeeping-peacebuilding nexus’ in practice, where civilian peacekeepers are incr... Read More about ‘Bending the Rules’: The Space between HQ Policy and Local Action in UN Civilian Peacekeeping.