True or False Warning? The United Nations and Threats to Namibia's Independence, 1989
Dr. A. Walter Dorn is Professor of Defence Studies at Canada’s Royal Military College and the Canadian Forces College, where he has been teaching since 2000. He earned his bachelor of science and master of sciences, as well as his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry, which deals with chemical sensing for arms control, at the University of Toronto. Earlier, Dr. Dorn was a program coordinator for the Parliamentarians for Global Action, a senior research scientist and visiting scholar at the University of New Mexico and the Sandia National Laboratories, and a senior research fellow and visiting fellow at Cornell University’s Institute for African Development and its Peace Studies Program. Interviewed frequently in the print and electronic media, he is the author of Keeping Watch: Monitoring, Technology and Innovation in UN Peace Operations (Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 2011).
United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH)
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The effects of stabilisation on humanitarian action in Haiti.
Haiti is routinely characterised as an archetypical fragile state. In spite of considerable donor investment in security promotion, real and perceived safety have proven frustratingly elusive. In the years before the devastating earthquake of 12 January 2010, the country's capital, Port-au-Prince, was also the site of considerable experimentation to promote security and stability. T his paper reviews the discourse, practice and outcomes associated with three parallel stabilisation initiatives undertaken in Haiti between 2007 and 2009. Although they shared many similar objectives, the paper describes how these separate interventions mobilised very different approaches. The specific focus is on United States, United Nations and combined Brazilian, Canadian and Norwegian stabilisation efforts and their implications for humanitarian actors, including the International Committee of the Red Cross and Médecins Sans Frontières. The paper concludes with some reflections on the implications of stabilisation before and after the country's most recent natural disaster.