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INTERNATIONAL PEACEKEEPING Routledge
2020, VOL. 27, NO. 1, 1-11
https://doi.org/10.1080/13533312.2019.1710367 Taylor &Francis Group
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The Pieces Kept after Peace is Kept: Assessing the
(Post-Exit) Legacies of Peace Operations
John Gledhill
Forum Editor, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Do internationally-backed peace operations and state-building efforts leave
legacies of sustainable peace and viable states?1 To answer this question -
which lies at the heart of the study and practice of multidimensional peace-
keeping and peacebuilding - we need to document conditions that prevail
after peace operations have ended, and consider the extent to which those
conditions are the consequences of international interventions. That is, to
understand the lasting impact of peace operations, we need to examine
what happens after missions close. While this may seem intuitive, scholars
and practitioners have made surprisingly few efforts to systematically docu-
ment and explain conditions on the ground in former host states after
peace missions have exited. In this forum of nine short contributions, we
aim to partly remedy that empirical gap and, in so doing, generate debate
and discussion about the legacies of peace operations.
This introductory piece opens the forum by offering a brief overview of
existing evaluations of peace(keeping) operations, highlighting the common
tendency of analysts, scholars, and assessors to focus on the short-term,
rather than lasting, impacts of interventions. I then identify and discuss
three 'types' of legacy after peacekeepers exit and missions close, illustrating
each by making reference to examples drawn from the contributions that
follow.
The 'Short-termisrn' of Existing Eva]uations
While there has been no shortage of efforts to evaluate the effects, and
efficacy, of peace operations, those efforts have often - though not always -
suffered from 'short-termism'. That is, they have tended to focus on the
short-to-medium term impacts of peace operations (typically, while peace-
keepers are deployed), without systematically considering the lasting legacies
of those operations, after mission closure. This has been the case for evalu-
ations produced by policy actors and scholars alike.
CONTACT John Gledhill ® john.gledhill@qeh.ox.ac.uk
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