Lou Pingeot, "Police Peacekeeping: The UN, Haiti, and the Production of Global Social Order"
English | ISBN: 0198886616 | 2023 | 304 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
English | ISBN: 0198886616 | 2023 | 304 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
UN peace operations increasingly deploy police forces and engage in policing tasks. The turn to 'police peacekeeping' has generally been met with enthusiasm in both academic and policy circles, and is often understood to provide a more civilian instrument of intervention, better suited to mandates that increasingly emphasize protection. Rebuilding local police forces along democratic, liberal lines is seen as a prerequisite for a successful transition towards peace and stability. In this book, Lou Pingeot questions this optimistic reading of police peacekeeping, and demonstrates that the logic of policing leads to the depoliticization of conflict and the criminalization of those who are deemed to threaten not just public order but social order, authorizing violence against them in the name of law enforcement.
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