Building States, Undermining Public Order? Lessons from the UN Stabilization Mission to Haiti (2004–2014)

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This seminar explores how security sector reform, a core element of the statebuilding paradigm, affects the production of public order and ultimately violence in fragile states. Based on the case of the United Nations intervention in Haiti between 2004 and 2014, state-centric efforts to rebuild the security sector are unlikely to improve sustainably public order and reduce violence. In fact, by ignoring nonstate security actors and informal public ordering mechanisms, these interventions might actually have a disruptive effect on public order.

Please join us! Coffee and tea provided. Everyone is welcome, but admittance will be on a first come–first served basis.