John Karlsrud
Seniorforsker (i permisjon)John Karlsrud (PhD) er seniorforsker i Forskningsgruppen for fred, konflikt og utvikling ved NUPI og tok doktorgraden ved University of Warwick. Han er medlem av redaktørrådene for Internasjonal Politikk og Contemporary Security Policy. Han har vært gjesteforsker i regi av Fulbright-programmet Center on International Cooperation ved New York University, og også vært gjesteforsker ved International Peace Institute.
Karlsrud er spesielt interessert i normendringer, fredsbevaring, fredsbygging og humanitære spørsmål. Han har tidligere vært rådgiver til FNs spesialutsending til Tsjad og som del av lederprogrammet LEAD (FNs utviklingsprogram). Hans nyeste artikkel er Towards UN counter-terrorism operations?(Third World Quarterly, 2017) og han vil snart publisere UN peace operations in the 21st century: The UN at war (Palgrave, 2018) og UN Peacekeeping Doctrine in a New Era (Routledge 2017, redigert med Cedric de Coning og Chiyuki Aoi). Han har nylig utgitt Norm Change in International Relations (Routledge, 2016) og The Future of African Peace Operations: From the Janjaweed to Boko Haram (Zed Books, 2016, redigert med Cedric de Coning og Linnéa Gelot). Hans artikkel "The UN at War: Examining the Consequences of Peace Enforcement Mandates for the UN Peacekeeping Operations in the CAR, the DRC and Mali" fra 2015 er den andre mest nedlastede artikkelen i Third World Quarterly.
Han har arbeidet i Bosnia og Hercegovina, Tsjad, Palestina (Vestbredden), Norge og USA, og har gjort feltarbeid og hatt kortere oppdrag i Haiti, Liberia, Mosambik, Serbia, Sierra Leona, Sør-Sudan og Ukraina.
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WPS and Female Peacekeepers
The chapter provides an overview of the participation of female peacekeeping personnel in UN missions, tracing key target and agenda- setting policy events, as well as examining causes for the slow progress in female participation. The chapter considers female participation in the military, police, and... -
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UN Peace Operations, Terrorism, and Violent Extremism
2019There are practical and financial reasons to give UN peace operations more robust mandates and mitigate and respond to violent extremism and terrorism. But the idea of UN peacekeepers conducting counter-terrorism operations is not without its challenges. Karlsrud argues that UN peace operations neither... -
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Nettverk for forskning på fredsoperasjoners effektivitet (EPON)
2018 - 2021 (Ongoing)NUPI har sammen med 18 partnere over hele verden etablert et internasjonalt nettverk for å forske på nettopp dette.
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Fire globale skifter endrer FNs fredsoperasjoner
23.10.2018Den globale orden er i endring. Hva skjer så med FNs fredsoperasjoner? Det er hovedspørsmålet i Cedric de Coning og Mateja Peters nye bok. -
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Implementation in practice: The use of force to protect civilians in United Nations peacekeeping
2018Since the failures of the United Nations of the early 1990s, the protection of civilians has evolved as a new norm for United Nations peacekeeping operations. However, a 2014 United Nations report found that while peacekeeping mandates often include the use of force to protect civilians, this has routinely... -
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Predictive peacekeeping: opportunities and challenges
2018The time is ripe for the development of a UN early warning tool that estimates the likelihood of instability, intercommunity clashes and armed violence in areas in which UN peacekeepers operate. However, this development would require at least some initial collaboration between the UN and the scientific... -
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From Liberal Peacebuilding to Stabilization and Counterterrorism
2018Since the end of the Cold War, international interventions have increasingly been deployed to deal with internal conflict. Liberal peacebuilding has been a guiding concept for many of these interventions, in particular those deployed by the UN. This article argues that liberal peacebuilding is waning... -
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The UN at War: Peace Operations in a New Era
2018This book is a critical political and institutional reflection on UN peace operations. It provides constructive suggestions as to how the UN and the international system can evolve to remain relevant and tackle the peace and security challenges of the 21st century, without abandoning the principles that... -
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Between self-interest and solidarity: Norway’s return to UN peacekeeping?
This edited volume provides a comprehensive analysis of European approaches to United Nations peacekeeping by assessing past practice, present obstacles and future potentials related to nine core European countries’ contributions to blue helmet operations. By providing in-depth case studies on Denmark,... -
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Support to UN Peace Operations: Ensuring More Effective UN Peace Operations (UNPO)
2017 - 2020 (Ongoing)Dette prosjektet søker å styrke effektiviseringen av FNs fredsoperasjoner.
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Plug and Play: Multinational Rotation Contributions for UN Peacekeeping Operations
2017In January 2016, Norway deployed a C-130 military transport aircraft to the UN mission in Mali (MINUSMA). Given the number of attacks on patrols and logistics convoys of MINUSMA, which has been called ‘the world’s most dangerous UN mission’, a military transport aircraft like the C-130 is considered... -
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Quasi-Professionals in the Organisation of Transnational Crisis Mapping
2017The recent explosion of increasingly sophisticated mobile information communications technologies (ICTs) has led to the creation of new and complex networks and relationships. The fastest growth and adoption of mobile technologies is now in the developing world and often among populations facing development... -
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Det FN vi behøver?
24.10.2017Tilpasser FNs fredsoperasjoner seg fort nok? -
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UN-Friedenssicherung und Terrorismusbekämpfung: seltsame Bettgenossen?
2017Engelsk sammendrag: UN Peacekeeping and Counterterrorism: Uncomfortable Bedfellows? Based on the case of the UN Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), the article argues that UN peacekeeping neither is, nor will be ready operationally, doctrinally or politically to take on counterterrorism tasks.... -
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Multinational rapid response mechanisms: Past promises and future prospects
2017Military rapid response mechanisms are generally understood as troops that are on standby, ready to be deployed to a crisis within a short time frame. Yet, the overall track record of the existing multinational rapid response mechanisms within the European Union, the African Union, and North Atlantic...