| ID | 022409 |
| Title Proper | Walking Softly in Afghanistan |
| Other Title Information | the future of UN state-building |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Chesterman, Simon |
| Publication | 2002. |
| Description | 37-45 |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | The United Nations mission in Afghanistan adopted the guiding principle that it should first and foremost bolster Afghan capacity – both official and non-governmental – and rely on as limited an international presence and on as many Afghan staff as possible. This has come to be referred to as the ‘light footprint’ approach, a stark departure from the expansive UN mandates in Kosovo and East Timor. This is in keeping with the limited role accorded to the United Nations in the Bonn Agreement, negotiated in December 2001 after the rout of the Taliban by the United States and its foreign and local allies. But it also represents a philosophical challenge to the increasing aggregation of sovereign powers exercised in UN peace operations since the mid-1990s. |
| `In' analytical Note | Survival Vol. 44, No. 3; Autumn 2002: p37-45 |
| Journal Source | Survival Vol: 44 No 3 |
| Key Words | Afghanistan-United Nations ; United Nations-Afghanistan ; United Nations-Peacekeeping |