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Two decades ago, in 2003, the United Nations (UN) adopted what has become known as the ‘zero tolerance’ policy on sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) in response to a series of sexual misconduct scandals involving peacekeepers and aid workers in Cambodia, Bosnia and West Africa. In the intervening years, this policy has been the cornerstone of global efforts in both peacekeeping and the aid sector to prevent and ensure accountability for SEA, though there have been varying levels of success.
This book brings together a diverse mix of scholars and practitioners to provide the first comprehensive and intersectional overview of efforts to address SEA by peacekeepers and aid workers, two decades on from the adoption of the zero tolerance policy. Contributors share reflections, critiques and possible responses to the challenges that have plagued the implementation of the prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse agenda, the unintended consequences of the UN’s approach to dealing with disgrace and the missing links between the pursuit of safeguarding and broader processes of decolonization, anti-racism and localization.
Two decades ago, in 2003, the United Nations (UN) adopted what has become known as the ‘zero tolerance’ policy on sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) in response to a series of sexual misconduct scandals involving peacekeepers and aid workers in Cambodia, Bosnia and West Africa. In the intervening years, this policy has been the cornerstone of global efforts in both peacekeeping and the aid sector to prevent and ensure accountability for SEA, though there have been varying levels of success.
This book brings together a diverse mix of scholars and practitioners to provide the first comprehensive and intersectional overview of efforts to address SEA by peacekeepers and aid workers, two decades on from the adoption of the zero tolerance policy. Contributors share reflections, critiques and possible responses to the challenges that have plagued the implementation of the prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse agenda, the unintended consequences of the UN’s approach to dealing with disgrace and the missing links between the pursuit of safeguarding and broader processes of decolonization, anti-racism and localization.
Two decades ago, in 2003, the United Nations (UN) adopted what has become known as the ‘zero tolerance’ policy on sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) in response to a series of sexual misconduct scandals involving peacekeepers and aid workers in Cambodia, Bosnia and West Africa. In the intervening years, this policy has been the cornerstone of global efforts in both peacekeeping and the aid sector to prevent and ensure accountability for SEA, though there have been varying levels of success.
This book brings together a diverse mix of scholars and practitioners to provide the first comprehensive and intersectional overview of efforts to address SEA by peacekeepers and aid workers, two decades on from the adoption of the zero tolerance policy. Contributors share reflections, critiques and possible responses to the challenges that have plagued the implementation of the prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse agenda, the unintended consequences of the UN’s approach to dealing with disgrace and the missing links between the pursuit of safeguarding and broader processes of decolonization, anti-racism and localization.
In October 2023, 20 years after the United Nations (UN) ‘zero tolerance’ policy on sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) was promulgated, the UN reported that nine South African peacekeepers serving in the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo had been linked to ‘systematic widespread violation’ of the zero tolerance policy and, moreover, that they had physically assaulted and threatened UN Police officers investigating their conduct. This was one in a string of news reports demonstrating the persistence of SEA perpetrated by peacekeepers and humanitarian aid workers against both local communities and colleagues despite over 20 years of efforts globally to prevent and ensure accountability for such misconduct. This chapter charts the history and patterns of the phenomenon of SEA in peacekeeping and aid, as well as the trajectory of policy responses. It considers the key challenges that persist in efforts to ‘deal with’ SEA and situates them within the context of the broader reckoning the UN and aid sector are having with questions of power centring on diversity, equity and exclusion and their corresponding localization, anti-racism and decolonization movements. The chapter sets foundations for understanding the effectiveness and unintended consequences of efforts to prevent and respond to SEA and charts a course for scholars and practitioners to better approach this complex and critically important issue.
Two decades ago, in 2003, the United Nations (UN) adopted what has become known as the ‘zero tolerance’ policy on sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) in response to a series of sexual misconduct scandals involving peacekeepers and aid workers in Cambodia, Bosnia and West Africa. In the intervening years, this policy has been the cornerstone of global efforts in both peacekeeping and the aid sector to prevent and ensure accountability for SEA, though there have been varying levels of success.
This book brings together a diverse mix of scholars and practitioners to provide the first comprehensive and intersectional overview of efforts to address SEA by peacekeepers and aid workers, two decades on from the adoption of the zero tolerance policy. Contributors share reflections, critiques and possible responses to the challenges that have plagued the implementation of the prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse agenda, the unintended consequences of the UN’s approach to dealing with disgrace and the missing links between the pursuit of safeguarding and broader processes of decolonization, anti-racism and localization.
In 2003, the UN adopted a zero-tolerance policy on sexual exploitation and abuse by peacekeepers and aid workers. The policy arrived amid a series of scandals revealing sexual misconduct perpetrated against the very people peacekeeping and humanitarian missions were meant to protect.
This edited collection, including contributions from academics and practitioners, highlights the challenges of preventing and responding to abuse in peacekeeping and aid work, and the unintended consequences of current approaches. It lays bare the structures of power, coloniality and racism that underpin abuse and hinder accountability while charting a path for future action.
This eye-opening book will appeal to academics and students of the politics and practice of peacekeeping and humanitarianism, and to practitioners, policy makers and those working within the field.
