Securitisation and Desecuritisation of Violence in Trusteeship Statebuilding. Issue 4 (2nd October 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Bonacker, Thorsten; Distler, Werner; Ketzmerick, Maria
• Is Part Of: Civil wars. Volume 20:Issue 4(2018)
• Page Start: 477
• Page End: 499
• Publication Date: 2018-10-02
• Subjects: Civil war -- Periodicals; War -- Periodicals; Ethnic relations -- Periodicals; 355.021805
• DOI: 10.1080/13698249.2018.1525675
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1369-8249

Abstract

ABSTRACT: The United Nations has engaged in (neo)trusteeship statebuilding in two different contexts: post-Second World War decolonisation and after the Cold War. On both occasions, statebuilding aimed at preventing organised, large-scale violence. Nevertheless, these statebuilding efforts were confronted by several forms of violence, ranging from civil war to a high level of politically motivated violence. In this article, we ask how and why administrations in French Cameroon, New Guinea, Kosovo and Timor-Leste implementing (de)securitised such violence – by addressing it as a serious threat and imple-menting policies of protection, by portraying it as something manageable or even by ignoring it.