Trapped Between Many Worlds: A Post-colonial Perspective on the UN Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH)
Trapped Between Many Worlds: A Post-colonial Perspective on the UN Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH)
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DOI：
10.1080/13533312.2012.696389
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发表时间：
2012-01-01
影响因子：
2.3
通讯作者：
Gomes, Maira Siman
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作者：
Moreno, Marta Fernandez;Braga, Carlos Chagas Vianna;Gomes, Maira Siman
从后殖民的角度来看，本文认为，联合国海地稳定特派团（联海稳定团）的使命有助于我们了解如何传统的和平行动模式，在外地一级，不断挑战和重新谈判。联海稳定团的正式构想是作为一个在法语国家开展行动的法语使命，但事实证明，它的部署和实地互动十分复杂。联海稳定团大部分由拉丁美洲部队组成，一直受到象征性和物质压力，从联合国的“自由和平模式”、法国殖民遗产和美国以前的干涉，到后殖民世界观和当地要求。受益于学术方法和实践者的角度相结合，本文表明，虽然联合国海地稳定特派团是在一个特定的联合国使命模式框架内，在一个所谓的占主导地位的法语文化和位于美国的“郊区”，它还受到其他多种压力-例如主要捐助国的要求-并面临多重挑战，他的原始任务。这篇文章将预先确定的和平行动模式与日常实地现实之间的多次遭遇政治化。
From a post-colonial perspective, this article argues that the Mission des Nations Unies pour la stabilisation en Haiti (MINUSTAH) helps in our understanding of how the conventional peace operation model is, at the field-level, constantly challenged and renegotiated. Formally conceived as a francophone mission operating in a francophone country, MINUSTAH's deployment and interactions on the ground proved to be complex. Composed of a majority of Latin American troops, MINUSTAH has been exposed to symbolic and material pressures that range from the UN 'liberal peace model', French colonial heritage and previous US interference, to post-colonial worldviews and local demands. Benefitting from the combination of an academic approach and a practitioner's perspective this article demonstrates that although MINUSTAH was framed inside a specific UN mission pattern, grounded in a supposedly dominant francophone culture and located on the 'outskirts' of the United States, it has been subjected to a plurality of other pressures - such as demands from leading contributing countries - and opened to multiple re-articulations of its original mandate. This article politicizes the multiple encounters between a pre-defined peace operation model and everyday field realities.