Cooperating with evil? Accountability in peace operations and the evolution of the United Nations Human Rights Due Diligence Policy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8912261 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gisela Hirschmann (0000-0002-8262-7776, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 22-40 |
| Publication date | 2019-02-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cooperation and Conflict (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0010-8367 • E-ISSN: 1460-3691 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0010836719828406 |
| OpenAlex | W2913779126 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 32 |
International organizations (IOs) usually cooperate with national actors in order to implement global decisions and policies. This cooperation has become problematic as implementing partners have increasingly been accused of serious human rights violations. This article analyzes how implementing partners from the host state of a United Nations (UN) peace operation are held accountable. I argue that the complexity of contemporary peacekeeping limits the availability of traditional accountability mechanisms. I develop a conceptual model to demonstrate how, instead, different accountability forms interact and complement each other. I illustrate this interplay of accountability with a case study on the emergence of the UN Human Rights Due Diligence Policy (HRDDP). The accountability framework enacted by the Joint Human Rights Unit, the Special Procedures of the UN Human Rights Council and the International Criminal Court in the context of the UN peace operation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo threatened the legitimacy of UN peacekeeping. As a consequence, the UN adopted the HRDDP as a new, UN-based accountability mechanism to hold implementing partners from the host state of peace operations accountable
Accountability · Context (archaeology · Democracy · Due diligence · Human rights · Law and economics · Legitimacy · Peacekeeping · Political science · Politics · Responsibility to Protect · Sociology · State (computer science · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · Law · Peacebuilding and International Security · Political Conflict and Governance · Public Administration
UN Peacekeeping Operations in a Multipolar Era
United Nations Peacekeeping and the Politics of Authoritarianism
Ad hoc coalitions
Just Leaves in the Wind? Using Agent-Level Factors to Explain Variation in Human Rights Promotion Strategies
Pinioning the Peacekeepers
Protection Trinity
UN Peacekeeping at 75
The Challenges and Efficacy of International Organizations in the Context of Russia’s War in Ukraine
Peace-kept’ urbanism
Many hurdles to take
Unleashing and Taming Violent Peacekeepers
Theorizing Decision-Making in International Bureaucracies
Beyond Constitutionalism
Delegation and Agency in International Organizations
Analysing and Assessing Accountability
The Trouble with the Congo
Integration of Human Rights in Peace Operations
Peacekeeping and Conformity with Human Rights Law
Non-Electoral Accountability in Global Politics
The Legitimacy of Global Governance Institutions
Horizontal Accountability in Intergovernmental Organizations
Case Studies
The quest for legitimacy in world politics – international institutions’ legitimation strategies
International organisations and human rights
Guarding the guards
Regaining control of errant agents? Agency slack at the European Commission and the World Health Organization
Delegation, agency, and agenda setting in the European Community
Information Systems in Treaty Regimes
Accountability in an Unequal World
Organizing Hypocrisy
Transnational Corporations and Public Accountability
The Risk Game and the Blame Game
Accountability’s Effect
Accountability and Abuses of Power in World Politics
| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |