Sexual Exploitation and Abuse by UN Peacekeepers

A Threat to Impartiality

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12536712
AutoresKate Grady (Schlumberger (Ireland), autor correspondente)
Ano2010
Volume17
Fascículo2
Páginas215-228
Data de publicação2010-04-01
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoInternational Peacekeeping (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1353-3312 • E-ISSN: 1743-906X
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13533311003625100
OpenAlexW1996384142
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas15
Referências citadas5

This article reconceptualizes the idea of the impartiality of UN peacekeeping in light of allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse by peacekeeping personnel. It considers the role that sexual exploitation and abuse play both during and after conflict. The paper argues that sexual exploitation and abuse are political acts that bring about financial and propagandist benefits for the warring parties. It then tracks the history of neutrality in UN peacekeeping – originally defined as objective inaction against the warring parties – and its development into impartiality – now identified as unbiased interference, but with greater reference to core universal values such as fairness and justice. Peacekeepers’ involvement in sexual exploitation and abuse is of political advantage to the parties and therefore breaches the principle of impartiality

Computer security · Criminology · Impartiality · Peacekeeping · Political science · Computer Science · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Law · Psychology