Can Intergovernmental Organizations be Peacebuilders in Intra-state War?

Andrea Warnecke

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Abstract

This article examines the sources of authority of intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) conducting peacebuilding independently of peace operations. Expanding Inis Claude’s notion of the two identities of the UN, the article suggests re-imagining the state/non-state divide in international organization by distinguishing between governmental and non-governmental sources of authority, rather than between different types of organizations. Similar to international non-governmental organizations, IGOs depend on moral and expert credibility as non-state sources of authority in peacebuilding. This reliance and the in-built pro-government bias curtail their ability to engage in transformative peacebuilding, rendering it likely that IGO interventions contribute to maintaining existing power imbalances.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)634-653
Number of pages20
JournalJournal of Intervention and Statebuilding
Volume14
Issue number5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 17 Jul 2020

Keywords

  • International Organizations
  • International Non-Governmental Organizations
  • Peacebuilding
  • Legitimacy
  • Authority
  • First and Second United Nations
  • Intergovernmental organizations
  • peacebuilding
  • legitimacy
  • authority
  • international non-governmental organizations

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