The United Nations and the protection of civilians in African conflicts

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dc.contributor.advisorSeegers, Annetteen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorHamilton, Leighen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2014-09-02T09:50:24Z
dc.date.available2014-09-02T09:50:24Z
dc.date.issued2014en_ZA
dc.description.abstractSince 1948, the United Nations (UN) has launched 83 peace missions across the globe. After the end of the Cold War, the nature of UN peace missions changed and the UN began to mandate its peace soldiers to perform a greater variety of tasks. One of these tasks was the protection of civilians (POC). While much work has been done on the growth of the civilian protection agenda and the role that peacekeepers play in protecting civilians during armed conflict, these works have been descriptive narratives that lack any sort of theoretical component that conceptualizes POC as a norm. This thesis conceptualizes POC as a norm and utilizes a Constructivist framework based on Martha Finnemore's and Kathryn Sikkink's norm life-cycle in order to identify how the norm of civilian protection during conflict in Africa evolved at the UN, beginning in 1992 and ending in 2011. It argues that the greatest impetus for the evolution of the POC norm came from actors within the UN, who were motivated by organizational survival, even though the institutionalization of normative evolution at the UN did not necessarily lead to the demonstration of POC by UN peace soldiers on the ground. This thesis aims to prove this assertion by applying a Constructivist framework to a case study, which consists of UN peace missions in four different African nations: Somalia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone and Sudan. This thesis also aims to build upon existing Constructivist theory.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationHamilton, L. (2014). <i>The United Nations and the protection of civilians in African conflicts</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Political Studies. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/6814en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationHamilton, Leigh. <i>"The United Nations and the protection of civilians in African conflicts."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Political Studies, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/6814en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationHamilton, L. 2014. The United Nations and the protection of civilians in African conflicts. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Hamilton, Leigh AB - Since 1948, the United Nations (UN) has launched 83 peace missions across the globe. After the end of the Cold War, the nature of UN peace missions changed and the UN began to mandate its peace soldiers to perform a greater variety of tasks. One of these tasks was the protection of civilians (POC). While much work has been done on the growth of the civilian protection agenda and the role that peacekeepers play in protecting civilians during armed conflict, these works have been descriptive narratives that lack any sort of theoretical component that conceptualizes POC as a norm. This thesis conceptualizes POC as a norm and utilizes a Constructivist framework based on Martha Finnemore's and Kathryn Sikkink's norm life-cycle in order to identify how the norm of civilian protection during conflict in Africa evolved at the UN, beginning in 1992 and ending in 2011. It argues that the greatest impetus for the evolution of the POC norm came from actors within the UN, who were motivated by organizational survival, even though the institutionalization of normative evolution at the UN did not necessarily lead to the demonstration of POC by UN peace soldiers on the ground. This thesis aims to prove this assertion by applying a Constructivist framework to a case study, which consists of UN peace missions in four different African nations: Somalia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone and Sudan. This thesis also aims to build upon existing Constructivist theory. DA - 2014 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2014 T1 - The United Nations and the protection of civilians in African conflicts TI - The United Nations and the protection of civilians in African conflicts UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/6814 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/6814
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationHamilton L. The United Nations and the protection of civilians in African conflicts. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Political Studies, 2014 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/6814en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Political Studiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.titleThe United Nations and the protection of civilians in African conflictsen_ZA
dc.typeMaster Thesis
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dc.type.qualificationnameMPhilen_ZA
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