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Effectiveness of International Civilian Police
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Effectiveness of International Civilian Police
Introduction
The military police and the civilian police have both played a significant role in peacekeeping and the establishment of law and order in international jurisdictions through the operations endorsed by the United Nations (UN). It is, however, the International Civilian Police (CIVPOL) who have been extremely vital in the peacekeeping missions, tasked with the role of monitoring, supervising, training the local law enforcement agencies, and sometimes taking part in the actual law enforcement. Tradiditionaly, the CIVPOL mandates have always revolved around training, monitoring, and organizing local law enforcement but have evolved due to the changing nature of operations. The UN has called upon the CIVPOL in several peacekeeping missions around the globe. Although the missions often take different approaches, meaningful conclusions on the effectiveness of the CIVPOL in discharging their mandates at different levels can be deduced.
Haiti, a country dominated by corruption, exploitation, violence, and fragile government, has had a long history with the international community, especially the United Nations, through series of peacekeeping missions that ended as recent as 2017 (Moreira, 2019). Every UN mission in Haiti had a specific role and mandate but the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) clearly depicts the role of the international civilian police, and through it, their effectiveness can be adequately evaluated (Moreira, 2019). Being the longest ever UN undertaking in Haiti (2004 - 2017), there is quite a lot to learn from the mission that was composed of military personnel, international civilian police, and a few civilian individuals working for the UN (Moreira, 2019). The armed conflict that led to the exile of the then Haitian president convinced the UN Security Council that the conflict was a threat to international peace and security. The conflict led to the displacement of a large number of civilians to the neighboring Caribbean countries (Moreira, 2019).
The duties and responsibilities of the CIVPOL in MINUSTAH vary when analyzed based on three levels: micro, meso, and macro. The micro and macro levels represent the individual and the national or international levels respectively. The meso level, which is the broadest of all levels, considers the organizations, institutions, and communities that lay in between the individuals and the state (Roberts, 2020). This paper makes use of the three levels of analysis to point out the effectiveness of the international civilian police, specifically in the MINUSTAH peacekeeping mission of 2004 to 2017. Nevertheless, the three levels are interrelated, and the strategies overlap from one level to another.
At the Micro-Level
The UN-mandated the MINUSTAH mission operatives with the responsibility of preventing the violation of human rights, particularly those against the Haitian civilian citizens. Also, the mission sought to protect children and women from armed conflicts. Widespread kidnapping and killing of innocent civilians was also a menace the UN had mandated the mission to overcome. Most neighborh...