Description
Summary: | UN peace operations increasingly deploy police forces and engage in policing tasks. The turn to 'police peacekeeping' has generally been met with enthusiasm in both academic and policy circles, and is often understood to provide a more civilian instrument of intervention, better suited to mandates that increasingly emphasise protection. Rebuilding local police forces along democratic, liberal lines is seen as a prerequisite for a successful transition towards peace and stability. In this book, Lou Pingeot questions this optimistic reading of police peacekeeping, and demonstrates that the logic of policing leads to the depoliticization of conflict and the criminalization of those who are deemed to threaten not just public order but social order, authorizing violence against them in the name of law enforcement.
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Item Description: | Also issued in print: 2023. |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
Audience: | Specialized. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780191994388 0191994383 9780198886631 0198886632 9780198886624 0198886624 |
Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 02, 2023). |