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LOPES, PAULA DUARTE
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Peacebuilding in Timor-Leste: finding a way between external intervention and local dynamics
/ Freire, Maria Raquel; Lopes, Paula Duarte
Freire, Maria Raquel
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This article highlights the importance of interaction between peace missions and local dynamics, drawing on Tsing's work on frictions. It is centred on the United Nations (UN) peace intervention in Timor-Leste, discussing different examples of frictions, which have the potential to undermine or empower the peacebuilding efforts underway. The analysis stresses the unpredictable effects of applying the UN liberal peace model. It is argued that processes of friction, often consisting of an incremental build-up of intermediate results shape and form the (un)sustainability of any peacebuilding process initiated by an external intervention and, consequently, should be identified and analysed in order to enhance or minimize their positive/negative contribution towards building peace.
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Timor - Leste
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External Intervention
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United Nations Peace Intervention
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UN Liberal Peace Model
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United Nations
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Responsibility to protect’ and the African Union: assessing the AU’s capacity to respond to regional complex humanitarian and political emergencies
/ Freire, Maria Raquel; Lopes, Paula Duarte; Nascimento, Daniela
Freire, Maria Raquel
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Despite its many institutional and political weaknesses and limitations, the African Union (AU) has been developing a variety of tools and mechanisms to respond effectively to complex disasters and emergencies (both natural and manmade) by building up a comprehensive regional security architecture. Furthermore, it has become the first and only regional or international organisation to enshrine the principle of ‘responsibility to protect’ (R2P) in its Constitutive Act. This regional approach to and formal endorsement of the R2P principle allowed it to assume a particular place in the promotion of peace and security in its area. This article aims to critically assess the effectiveness of the AU on the African continent by exploring its real capacity in preventing and responding to emergencies and violent conflicts, and therefore in rendering the principle of R2P operational. The article argues that the formalisation of principles does not necessarily mean their effective implementation. The organisation's use of the R2P principle is also greatly conditioned by internal and external factors.
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African Union
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Peace and Security
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Capacity
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Responsibility to Protect
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R2P
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Prevention and Response
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