Contributions to Peacekeeping for Promotion of Localized Rwandan Norms

TY - CHAP

T1 - Contributions to Peacekeeping for Promotion of Localized Rwandan Norms

AU - Beloff, Jonathan

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

PY - 2022

Y1 - 2022

N2 - Participation in international peacekeeping is often examined through international policies and outcomes by the contributing militaries and police actors. There are multiple reasons for why nations contribute their military personal to regional and global peacekeeping through liberal international relations theory. This research differs by examining how contribution to peacekeeping can help reinforce domestic norms of contributing states. Rwanda’s post-genocide social development incorporates several norms promoted by the ruling Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF) that differs from past governments and the international community. Promotion of the norm, “Home Grown Solutions” (HGS) has been incorporated by the Rwandan Government for local society and through its peacekeepers engagement. Rwandan military and police actors sent to multiple missions introduce HGS practices such as umuganda, gacaca, and the traditional clay stove Rondereza. This research examines Rwandan peacekeeping commitment as a governmental mechanism to promote HGS practices for domestic audiences to reinforce the credibility of these practices. Articles and editorials from within Rwanda’s primary English newspaper, The New Times, illustrate how the government’s norm construction is successful by reinforcing the HGS norm through examples found within peacekeeping to the general Rwandan population.

AB - Participation in international peacekeeping is often examined through international policies and outcomes by the contributing militaries and police actors. There are multiple reasons for why nations contribute their military personal to regional and global peacekeeping through liberal international relations theory. This research differs by examining how contribution to peacekeeping can help reinforce domestic norms of contributing states. Rwanda’s post-genocide social development incorporates several norms promoted by the ruling Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF) that differs from past governments and the international community. Promotion of the norm, “Home Grown Solutions” (HGS) has been incorporated by the Rwandan Government for local society and through its peacekeepers engagement. Rwandan military and police actors sent to multiple missions introduce HGS practices such as umuganda, gacaca, and the traditional clay stove Rondereza. This research examines Rwandan peacekeeping commitment as a governmental mechanism to promote HGS practices for domestic audiences to reinforce the credibility of these practices. Articles and editorials from within Rwanda’s primary English newspaper, The New Times, illustrate how the government’s norm construction is successful by reinforcing the HGS norm through examples found within peacekeeping to the general Rwandan population.

KW - Home Grown Solutions

KW - Norms

KW - Peacekeeping

KW - Post-genocide society

KW - Rwanda

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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-05756-4_7

DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-05756-4_7

M3 - Chapter

AN - SCOPUS:85140217584

T3 - Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies

SP - 165

EP - 186

BT - Alternative Perspectives on Peacebuilding

PB - Palgrave Macmillan

ER -