Violating Peace: Sex, Aid, and Peacekeeping
Jasmine-Kim Westendorf, "Violating Peace: Sex, Aid, and Peacekeeping"
English | ISBN: 150174805X | 2020 | 232 pages | PDF | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 150174805X | 2020 | 232 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Jasmine-Kim Westendorf's discomforting book investigates sexual misconduct by military peacekeepers and abuses perpetrated by civilian peacekeepers and non-UN civilian interveners. Based on extensive field research in Bosnia, Timor-Leste, and with the UN and humanitarian communities, Violating Peace uncovers a brutal truth about peacebuilding as Westendorf investigates how such behaviors affect the capacity of the international community to achieve its goals related to stability and peacebuilding, and its legitimacy in the eyes of local and global populations.
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