Gatekeepers to Decolonisation: Recentring the UN Peacekeepers on the Frontline of West Papua's Re-colonisation, 1962-3
Gatekeepers to Decolonisation: Recentring the UN Peacekeepers on the Frontline of West Papua's Re-colonisation, 1962-3
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非殖民化的看门人：重新审视西巴布亚重新殖民前线的联合国维和人员，1962-3
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10.1177/0022009421997894
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发表时间：
2021
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0.7
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Tudor M
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Tudor M
本文检视联合国维持和平领导人与中层职员所采用的政策，以压制西巴布亚反印尼活动人士，并将民众的政治观点视为与领土主权未来无关。在联合国的斡旋下，《纽约协定》（New York Agreement）使印尼对该地区的主权主张合法化。此前，印尼与荷兰就西巴布亚（West Papua）领土问题进行了10年的国际讨论，并发生了军事冲突。该协议赋予联合国对西巴布亚七个月的主权控制权，以促进权力从荷兰殖民统治过渡。本文通过对该特派团的多份档案研究，对以往以政策为重点的关于该争端的学术研究进行了深入和平衡，展现了中层维和人员的形象，并揭示了他们在塑造维和实践方面的作用。它阐明了特派团工作人员如何在1962 - 1963年无视西巴布亚代表的意见，并为印度尼西亚政府执行的剥夺公民权的项目作出贡献。在这样做的过程中，特派团领导果断地参与了人口的重新殖民化，并无视当地侵犯权利的行为。
This article examines the policies employed by United Nations (UN) peacekeeping leadership and mid-level staff to silence West Papuan anti-Indonesian activists and dismiss the population’s political opinions as immaterial to their territory’s sovereign future. The UN brokered the New York Agreement, legitimising Indonesia’s claims to the region following a decade of international discussions and military skirmishes between Indonesia and the Netherlands over the territory of West Papua. The Agreement vested the UN with sovereign control of West Papua for seven months to facilitate the transition in authority from Dutch colonial rule. Drawing on a multi-archival study of the mission, this article offers depth and balance to previous high-policy-focused scholarship on the dispute, rendering mid-level peacekeepers visible and bringing their role in shaping peacekeeping practices to light. It illuminates how the mission staff dismissed the views of West Papuan representatives in 1962–3 and contributed to the project of disenfranchisement carried out by the Indonesian government. In doing so, the mission leadership decisively participated in the re-colonisation of the population and disregarded rights violations on the ground.