Global Governance and Local Peace
Accountability and Performance in International Peacebuilding

Explains why successful international peacebuilding depends on the unorthodox actions of country-based staff, whose deviations from approved procedures make global governance organizations accountable to local realities.

Susanna P. Campbell (Author)

9781108418652, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 7 June 2018

306 pages, 1 b/w illus. 6 tables
23.5 x 15.7 x 2 cm, 0.57 kg

'Campbell's study underlines that local accountability matters more than accountability upwards. Effective peacebuilding requires flexibility, responsiveness, and creativity. It demands learning and reflection, the ability to pause, and think.' Sukanya Podder, International Peacekeeping

Why do international peacebuilding organizations sometimes succeed and sometimes fail, even within the same country? Bridging the gaps between the peacekeeping, peacebuilding, and global governance scholarship, this book argues that international peacebuilding organizations repeatedly fail because they are accountable to global actors, not to local institutions or people. International peacebuilding organizations can succeed only when country-based staff bypass existing accountability structures and empower local stakeholders to hold their global organizations accountable for achieving local-level peacebuilding outcomes. In other words, the innovative, if seemingly wayward, actions of individual country-office staff are necessary to improve peacebuilding performance. Using in-depth studies of organizations operating in Burundi over a fifteen-year period, combined with fieldwork in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nepal, South Sudan, and Sudan, this book will be of interest to scholars and students of international relations, African studies, and peace and conflict studies, as well as policymakers.

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Local peacebuilding and global accountability
2. The country context - Burundi from 1999 to 2014
3. INGOs in peacebuilding - globally unaccountable, locally adaptive
4. International organizations in peacebuilding - globally accountable, locally constrained
5. Bilateral development donors - accountable for global targets, not local change
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: International organisations & institutions [LBBU], Non-governmental organizations [NGOs JPWH], United Nations & UN agencies [JPSN1], International relations [JPS], Politics & government [JP]