Sexual exploitation and abuse by UN peacekeepers: Flaws and hopes of policies from prevention to accountability of perpetrators

• Autor(a) principal: Machado, Bruna Adamatti
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10071/19237
• topic: United Nations; Peacekeepers; Sexual exploitation; Sexual abuse; SEA; Peacekeeping missions; Nações Unidas; Soldados da paz; Exploração sexual; Abuso sexual; Missões de paz; Políticas públicas; Estudo de casos; República Democrática do Congo

Peacekeeping missions are complex scenarios that involve different actors, at times, with clashing ideals. The variable components contribute to develop the mission culture that makes each peacekeeping mission unique. However different, most peacekeeping operations have recorded incidence of sexual exploitation and abuse perpetrated by United Nations peacekeepers, since they started to be tracked in the 1990s. Since then, the United Nations have been issuing resolutions and mandates, and adopting instances aimed at preventing and combatting sexual exploitation and abuse within its realm. Troop Contributing Countries have adhered to some of these policies in plain sight, but allegations of sexual misconduct keep arising from missions, which denotes a need of internal changes. This work seeks to analyse these policies and how they apply on the field. A case study of MONUC/MONUSCO was selected to cross theory and reality and identify where policies went wrong and what can effectively be done to make a better use of available tools to tackle the problem of sexual exploitation and abuse by United Nations peacekeepers.