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SECURITY, DEVELOPMENT AND
HUMAN RIGHTS IN EAST ASIA
UN Governance
Peace and Human Security in
Cambodia and Timor-Leste
Series Editor
Brendan M. Howe
Graduate School of International Studies
Ewha Womans University, GSIS
Seoul, Korea (Republic of)
This series focuses on the indissoluble links uniting security, development
and human rights as the three pillars of the UN, and the foundation of
global governance. It takes into account how rising Asia has dramati-
cally impacted the three pillars at the national, international and global
levels of governance, but redirects attention, in this most Westphalian of
regions, to human-centered considerations. Projects submitted for inclu-
sion in the series should therefore address the nexus or intersection of
two or more of the pillars at the level of national or international gover-
nance, but with a focus on vulnerable individuals and groups. The series
targets postgraduate students, lecturers, researchers and practitioners of
development studies, international relations, Asian studies, human rights
and international organizations.
UN Governance
Peace and Human Security in Cambodia
and Timor-Leste
Brendan M. Howe Sorpong Peou
Graduate School of International Department of Politics and Public
Studies Administration
Ewha Womans University, GSIS Ryerson University
Seoul, Korea (Republic of) Toronto, ON, Canada
Yuji Uesugi
Faculty of International Research and
Education
Waseda University
Tokyo, Japan
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Contents
Index 151
v
About the Authors
vii
Abbreviations
ix
x ABBREVIATIONS
Introduction
This volume evaluates the performance of the United Nations (UN)
in ensuring good governance from a human-centred perspective, in
Cambodia and Timor-Leste (formerly East Timor), the two most impor-
tant and comprehensive cases of peacekeeping and peacebuilding. Both
cases are situated in the Southeast Asian subregion of East Asia (which
also includes Northeast Asia), and East Asian perspectives and condi-
tions are counterposed to the universal aspirations of the UN and
liberal peacekeeping and peacebuilding. The legality, legitimacy, and effi-
cacy/effectiveness of UN operations in the two countries are considered.
These three categories are, however, interrelated rather than exclusionary,
reflecting the complex nature of contemporary governance prescription.
Legality is presented from the perspective of both codified ‘positive’
international law, and the supplementary prescriptions of the “customs
and usages of civilized nations of states” (United States Supreme Court
[USSC] 1900), the “general principles of law recognized by civilized
nations” (ICJ 1945, Article 38(c)), and “the teachings of the most highly
qualified publicists of the various nations” (ICJ 1945, Article 38(d)).
Legitimacy is examined in terms of international recognition, local owner-
ship, and human-centred good governance (Howe 2012). Efficacy is
assessed with regard to the stated goals of UN peacekeeping and state-
building missions in general and these two case studies in particular. As
the stated goals increasingly reflect human-centred governance compo-
nents, how well these UN missions provided for the human security of
all, but especially the most vulnerable, can also be considered in terms of
measurements of efficiency.
The case studies will be assessed at three ‘moments’: the justifiability of
intervening (peacekeeping/peacebuilding/responsibility to protect (R2P)
authorisations); the justifiability of actions and policies implemented
during the intervention (responsibilities while protecting and keeping
the peace); and the justifiability of the situation after the interventions
took place and UN forces were withdrawn (governance responsibilities
after protection or after the initial construction of safe havens/building
enduring and sustainable peace).
We expect those who govern to do so in the interests of the governed,
usefully providing services that can best or perhaps only be achieved
through collective action. According to the Report of the Commission
1 GLOBAL GOVERNANCE PRINCIPLES AND UN IMPLEMENTATION 3
made under the dictates of this concept reflect both normative concerns
(that governing in the interests of the most vulnerable is fundamentally
the ‘right’ thing to do) and those of efficacy (that other governance objec-
tives are more achievable if individuals and groups are taken into account).
Hence, of central concern to this volume is the idea that a broad inter-
pretation of human security within governance, including elements of
distributive justice, is necessary from the perspective of legitimacy, but
also for the long-term construction of peace by transforming conflictual
relationships.
Human security is a multidisciplinary paradigm for understanding
global vulnerabilities at the level of individual human beings. It incor-
porates methodologies and analysis from a number of research fields
including strategic and security studies, development studies, human
rights, international relations, and the study of international organisations.
It exists at the point where these disciplines converge on the concept of
protection. The UN Development Programme (UNDP)’s Human Devel-
opment Report 1994: New Dimensions of Human Security is seen as the
prime foundational document for the global governance mission with
regard to human security. It noted that the objective of security has
changed from states to human beings and commented on the importance
of a more human-centric approach to security (UNDP 1994). The Report
also recognised that freedom from want and freedom from fear constitute
important perspectives on poverty and development. Indeed, there is a
close relationship between human security envisioned as the protection of
persons, and human development as the provision of basic human needs.
Human security and human development are both people-centred
(Peou 2014). They challenge the orthodox approach to security and
development (i.e. state security and liberal economic growth, respec-
tively). Both perspectives are multidimensional, and address people’s
dignity as well as their material and physical concerns. Both impose duties
on the wider global community. They can be seen as mutually reinforcing.
A peaceful environment frees individuals and governments to move from
a focus on mere survival to a position where they can consider improve-
ment of their situations. Likewise, as a society develops, it is able to afford
more doctors, hospitals, welfare networks, internal security operations,
schools, and de-mining operations. Conversely, as former UN Secretary-
General Kofi Annan observed in his UN Report In Larger Freedom, “we
will not enjoy security without development, development without secu-
rity, and neither without respect for human rights. Unless all these causes
1 GLOBAL GOVERNANCE PRINCIPLES AND UN IMPLEMENTATION 5
are advanced, none will succeed” (Annan 2005, p. 6). Conflict retards
development, and underdevelopment can lead to conflict.
Legality
In general, the legal framework of UNPKOs can be derived from the UN
Charter; the mandate provided by the UN Security Council (UNSC);
mission-specific legal instruments including agreements with the troop-
contributing States, Participation Agreements and with the host State,
Status of Forces Agreements (SOFAs) or Status of Missions Agreements
(SOMAs), rules of engagement, and UN regulations (Howe et al. 2015,
p. 8). The mandate formulated in an enabling resolution by the UNSC
or exceptionally in a UN General Assembly (GA) resolution contains
the legal basis under international law for the deployment of a UNPKO
(ibid.). As Michael Bothe (2003, p. 265) remarks, “(t)he mandate of a
peace operation is the source of its powers and at the same time the limi-
tation of its powers”. At its most fundamental PKOs are tools of conflict
management, including those conflicts which are viewed as intractable,
wherein the worst manifestations of conflict (interstate wars) are reduced
by keeping combatants apart.
Even though the UN Charter does not provide for an explicit autho-
risation of peacekeeping operations, there is agreement that the legal
basis for consensual peacekeeping operations falls between Chapter VI
(peaceful settlement of disputes) and Chapter VII (enforcement measures
to maintain or restore international peace and security) (Howe et al.
2015, p. 10). UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld referred to the
mythical “Chapter VI and a half” (Ramsbotham and Woodhouse 1999,
p. xi). Yet there remains considerable debate over which Charter provi-
sions are exactly the legal basis of international peacekeeping and how
to allocate authority among the UNSC, the UNGA, and the Secretariat,
represented by the Secretary-General. Under Article 24(1) of the UN
Charter, the UNSC has the primary responsibility for the maintenance
of international peace and security, and in accordance with Article 29,
has the power to create peacekeeping forces as its subsidiary organs.
According to Article 98 of the UN Charter, the Council may entrust
the Secretary-General with certain functions.
A number of articles within Chapter VII have been championed as
serving as the legal foundation, either alone or in conjunction with
1 GLOBAL GOVERNANCE PRINCIPLES AND UN IMPLEMENTATION 9
each other. These include: Article 39 “The Security Council shall deter-
mine the existence of any threat to the peace, breach of the peace,
or act of aggression and shall make recommendations, or decide what
measures shall be taken in accordance with Articles 41 and 42, to main-
tain or restore international peace and security;” Article 40: “the Security
Council may, before making the recommendations or deciding upon the
measures provided for in Article 39, call upon the parties concerned to
comply with such provisional measures as it deems necessary or desirable;”
Article 41: “measures not including the use of armed force;” Article 42:
“such action by air, sea, or land forces as may be necessary to maintain or
restore international peace and security;” and Article 48: “action required
to carry out the decisions of the Security Council for the maintenance
of international peace and security shall be taken by all the Members of
the United Nations or by some of them, as the Security Council may
determine”.
In 1957, Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld laid down the three
key principles of classical UNPKOs (as opposed to the more recent
conceptualizations of peace enforcement for humanitarian reasons). First,
they require the consent of the parties to the conflict. Second, they
should be ‘neutral’ (impartial). Third, force should not be used except
in self-defence. Even though these bedrock principles of international
peacekeeping have been confirmed by the UN in policy documents and
by member states in the annual meetings of the Special Committee
on Peacekeeping (C34) ever since, peacekeeping has evolved over time,
and practice has challenged these core principles repeatedly, especially
regarding the use of force for humanitarian protection (see Peou 2003).
From a contemporary legal perspective, one may distinguish between
consensual and non-consensual PKOs based on Chapter VII of the UN
Charter. Many contemporary PKOs are established under Chapter VII of
the UN Charter and they do not in a strict sense require the consent of
the parties to the conflict (Howe et al. 2015, p. 9). There are also authori-
sations to use of force for POC, and not just in self-defence. Furthermore,
in 2013, the UNSC established a Force Intervention Brigade (FIB) within
the UN Stabilisation Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The FIB has a mandate to use force preventively and to carry out offensive
operations against spoilers (ibid.). Thus, in both 2013 and 2014, Russia
warned that “what was once the exception now threatens to become
unacknowledged standard practise” and “in some may even run counter
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