A Responsibility to Consult? Local Policy Ownership During Transitional Governance

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Abstract: This thesis explores the circumstances under which it is wise (or foolish) for international post-conflict missions to seek the advice consent of local populations in major post-conflict policy decisions. Based on field work in East Timor and three diverse case studies -- East Timor, Bosnia, and Cambodia -- the author assesses the conditions under which local policy ownership is important or unimportant during these transitions. The author advises international peace- and state-builders to assess the incentives that local parties have to support or undermine agreed plans; to estimate the consequences of handing responsibility to local actors; to determine the nature and utility of leverage over local leaders that international actors might want to maintain in the period after the completion of elections -- and, not least, to do these things in advance of deciding what balance to seek between local and international responsibilities during and after the transition.

Type of resource	text
Date created	May 5, 2005

Author	Marsh, Victor
Author	Emmerson, Donald
Degree granting institution	Stanford University, Center for International Security and Cooperation

Subject	state-building
Subject	statebuilding
Subject	governance
Subject	democracy
Subject	development
Subject	ownership
Subject	post-conflict
Subject	reconstruction
Subject	United Nations
Subject	peacekeeping
Subject	peacebuilding
Subject	peace-building
Subject	peace operations
Subject	intervention
Subject	chapter 7
Subject	peace enforcement
Subject	Bosnia
Subject	Cambodia
Subject	East Timor
Subject	Timor-Leste
Subject	Security Council
Subject	local ownership
Subject	transition
Subject	failed states
Subject	weak states
Subject	Center for International Security and Cooperation
Genre	Thesis

Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/ww647rc9211

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Preferred Citation: Marsh, Victor. (2005). A Responsibility to Consult? Local Policy Ownership During Transitional Governance. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/ww647rc9211

Stanford University, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Interschool Honors Program in International Security Studies, Theses

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