Ograničenja liberalne izgradnje mira: slučaj neuspjele misije Ujedinjenih nacija u Maliju
Liberal Peacebuilding and Its Limitations in the Case of the Failed UN Mission in Mali

Summary/Abstract: The failure of the United Nations mission in Mali clearly reflects the crisis in contemporary peacebuilding. Rather than creating security and stability, the mission deteriorated within an increasingly hostile political and security environment and could not prevent the breakdown of democratic governance. The mission was based on liberal peacebuilding principles, but the approach was combined with a stabilisation mandate. The article uses this mission as a case study to examine the limits of such peacebuilding and the consequences of the stabilisation turn and increased mandate hybridisation. Through process tracing of Security Council records and mission reports, the analysis explores how the mission was designed around an internally contradictory mandate that combined liberal state-building objectives with stabilisation priorities and examines the consequences of hybrid design. The results show that this hybrid design diluted political leverage, enabled illiberal behaviour, and prevented the mission from addressing the structural root causes of conflict. This indicates that liberal peacebuilding is obstructed when security-first stabilisation is prioritised and that hybrid mandates produce paralysis rather than complementarity. An argument is thus made for the need to reform liberal peacebuilding by integrating elements of the local turn with greater context-sensitivity and offers a theoretical contribution by clarifying the conditions under which it can remain viable.

• Details
• Contents