| Description |
1 online resource (79 pages) : illustrations, color maps |
| Contents |
Executive summary. -- Preface. -- Crime and conflict converge. -- Guinea-Bissau. -- Haiti. -- Kosovo. -- Observations and recommendations. -- Annex |
| Summary |
This report shows how organized crime, once considered a problem isolated to a few, mostly urban, communities, has become globalized and now affects a wide range of the UN's activities, including the maintenance of international peace and security. It describes how crime has become a serious threat in almost every theater where the UN has peace operations, and juxtaposes this with an analysis of mission mandates which contain few operational references to crime. Case studies based on field research in Haiti, Guinea-Bissau, and Kosovo show the impact of organized crime on stability, governance, and development and demonstrate the challenges faced by the international community in helping states to deal with this problem. The report argues that unless peace operations can identify and deal with spoilers involved in illicit activities at an early stage, better assess conflict economies, and disrupt illicit markets, organized crime will continue to flourish in theaters where peace operations are deployed, hindering their operability and the very development, security, and justice that the UN seeks to promote. The report concludes by making recommendations designed to increase the effectiveness of peace operations when dealing with transnational organized crime |
| Notes |
"June 2013." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (IPI, viewed July 13, 2013) |
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United Nations. Department of Peace-keeping Operations -- Rules and practice
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United Nations -- Armed Forces -- Stability operations
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United Nations |
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United Nations. Department of Peace-keeping Operations |
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Organized crime -- Prevention -- International cooperation
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Organized crime -- Developing countries
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Postwar reconstruction.
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Organized crime -- Haiti -- Case studies
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Organized crime -- Kosovo (Republic) -- Case studies
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Organized crime -- Guinea-Bissau -- Case studies
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Armed Forces -- Stability operations
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Organized crime
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Organized crime -- Prevention -- International cooperation
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Postwar reconstruction
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Developing countries
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Guinea-Bissau
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Haiti
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Kosovo (Republic)
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies
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Rules
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Shaw, Mark
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Boutellis, Arthur
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International Peace Institute
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