Overview

Criminalized power structures (CPS) are illicit networks that profit from transactions in black markets and from criminalized state institutions while perpetuating a culture of impunity. These criminalized power structures are the predominant spoilers of peace settlements and stability operations. This volume focuses on the means available to practitioners to cope with the challenges posed by CPS along with recommendations for improving their efficacy and an enumeration of the conditions essential for their success. The means range from economic sanctions and border controls to the use of social media and criminal intelligence-led operations. Each step of this toolkit is detailed, explaining what each tool is, how it can be used, which type of CPS it is best suited to address, and what is necessary to ensure success of the peace operations. The effectiveness of the tool is also assessed and its use is illustrated through real life situations, such as international supply chain controls to prevent the looting of natural resources in Western Africa or the intervention of international judges and prosecutors in Kosovo. A companion volume, Criminalized Power Structures: The Overlooked Enemies of Peace, articulates a typology for assessing the threats of CPS illustrated by many case studies.

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Author:   Michael Dziedzic
Publisher:   Rowman & Littlefield
Imprint:   Rowman & Littlefield
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 23.30cm
Weight:   0.508kg
ISBN:  

9781442266339

ISBN 10:   1442266333
Pages:   220
Publication Date:   26 July 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Sharpen Pre-Mission Assessments to Detect Whether Cps Are Potential Spoilers Chapter 1: Assessments and Strategic Planning, Karmen Fields and Oscar Vera Chapter 2: Understanding Culture, James Dorough-Lewis, Jr. Chapter 3: Social Change Leadership Communications, Dana Eyre Part II: Mandates Should Provide Adequate Authority to Deal with CPS Chapter 4: Mandates and Authorities, Elizabeth Andersen Part III: The Flow of Illicit Revenue to CPS Must Be Severed Chapter 5: Targeted Sanctions, George Lopez Chapter 6: United Nations Panels of Experts: Identifying Sanctions Violations and the Networks Behind them, Alix J. Boucher Chapter 7: International Watchdog Organizations, Kristi Clough Chapter 8: International Supply Chain Controls on Looting of Natural Resources, Merriam Mashatt Chapter 9: Governance and Economic Management Assistance Program (GEMAP), Matt Chessen and Robert Krech Chapter 10: Customs and Border Control, Paul Acda Part IV: Accountability Should Have A Priority Equal To Capacity Building Chapter 11: Accountability as a Countermeasure, Scott Carlson and Michael Dziedzic Chapter 12: Institutional Development of the Legal System, Mark Kroeker Chapter 13: Community-based Monitoring, Lorenzo Delegues & Huma Gupta Chapter 14: The Civil Society “Triangle,” Haki Abazi Chapter 15: Social Media Networks Marcia Byrom Hartwell Part V: Criminal Intelligence-Led Policing Should Be Integrated Into The Mission Response Chapter 16: Criminal Intelligence-led Operations, Bertram Welsing Chapter 17: International Judges and Prosecutors, Michael Hartmann

Reviews

I learned a good deal reading these timely volumes, even on the operations in which I was intimately involved. The findings are persuasive and the recommendations are all well considered and compelling. -- James Dobbins, Former Special Envoy for Afghanistan, Kosovo, Bosnia, Haiti, and Somalia Criminalized Power Structures: The Overlooked Enemies of Peace persuasively documents the damage done to prospects for peace when illicit wealth meets unscrupulous political power. The case studies show the depth and breadth of that damage in place after place, while Dziedzic's analysis draws upon years of research and experience to systematically reframe our views of peace 'spoiler' motives, goals and means. The result, with its second volume, Combating Criminalized Power Structures: A Toolkit, is wise counsel for dealing with these power structures that any peacebuilding enterprise should heed if it hopes to build the peace that it seeks. -- William Durch, Distinguished Fellow, The Stimson Center, Washington, DC. Criminalized Power Structures: The Overlooked Enemies of Peace and Combating Criminalized Power Structures: A Toolkit perform a vital service in the study of fragile states. Based on ten case histories from four continents, they demonstrate that criminalized power structures are a key element in promoting instability and describe the circumstances in which these structures can be tamed. Essential reading for policymakers and scholars. -- John Herbst, Former State Department Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization Criminalized Power Structures: The Overlooked Enemies of Peace and Combating Criminalized Power Structures: A Toolkit provide remarkable insights into criminalized power structures in conflict and post-conflict environments. This often overlooked phenomenon can have immense effects on peacekeeping and stabilization efforts. The volumes provide an important framework and practical insights that may help policymakers to better address these issues. -- Enrique Desmond Arias, Director, Peace Operations Policy Program, Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University

Criminalized Power Structures: The Overlooked Enemies of Peace persuasively documents the damage done to prospects for peace when illicit wealth meets unscrupulous political power. The case studies show the depth and breadth of that damage in place after place, while Mike Dziedzic's analysis draws upon years of research and experience to systematically reframe our views of peace spoiler motives, goals and means. Together with his second volume, Combating Criminalized Power Structures: A Toolkit, the result is wise counsel for dealing with these power structures that any peacebuilding enterprise should heed if it hopes to build the peace that it seeks. -- William Durch, Distinguished Fellow, The Stimson Center, Washington, DC.

I learned a good deal reading these timely volumes, even on the operations in which I was intimately involved. The findings are persuasive and the recommendations are all well considered and compelling. -- James Dobbins, Former Special Envoy for Afghanistan, Kosovo, Bosnia, Haiti, and Somalia Criminalized Power Structures: The Overlooked Enemies of Peace persuasively documents the damage done to prospects for peace when illicit wealth meets unscrupulous political power. The case studies show the depth and breadth of that damage in place after place, while Dziedzic's analysis draws upon years of research and experience to systematically reframe our views of peace 'spoiler' motives, goals and means. The result, with its second volume, Combating Criminalized Power Structures: A Toolkit, is wise counsel for dealing with these power structures that any peacebuilding enterprise should heed if it hopes to build the peace that it seeks. -- William Durch, Distinguished Fellow, The Stimson Center, Washington, DC. Criminalized Power Structures: The Overlooked Enemies of Peace and Combating Criminalized Power Structures: A Toolkit perform a vital service in the study of fragile states. Based on ten case histories from four continents, they demonstrate that criminalized power structures are a key element in promoting instability and describe the circumstances in which these structures can be tamed. Essential reading for policymakers and scholars. -- John Herbst, Former State Department Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization Criminalized Power Structures: The Overlooked Enemies of Peace and Combating Criminalized Power Structures: A Toolkit provide remarkable insights into criminalized power structures in conflict and post-conflict environments. This often overlooked phenomenon can have immense effects on peacekeeping and stabilization efforts. The volumes provide an important framework and practical insights that may help policymakers to better address these issues. -- Enrique Desmond Arias, Director, Peace Operations Policy Program, Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University At last, the subject of illicit power structures given the prominence it deserves! Here it is how to understand and implement better conflict prevention, effectively manage post-conflict situations, save millions of dollars in the process and in broader form push back against the rottenness of political corruption and criminal exploitation that permanently ruin the lives of populations in failing or failed states. Arrestingly and plainly revealed, the shameful motives that from the beginning of each international peace mission confound capacity- and institution-building are described by Mike Dzeidzic and seasoned practitioners in such compelling detail that tackling them should become the sine qua non of all future mission-planning. This is a piece of revelatory work and we deserve to hear the sound of brisk footsteps along government corridors as senior officials, grasping copies of this book, seek immediate entree to policy makers offices demanding major doctrinal changes. -- Richard Monk, Former UN Police Commissioner Bosnia and Kosovo, Member of the Brahimi Panel

I learned a good deal reading these timely volumes, even on the operations in which I was intimately involved. The findings are persuasive and the recommendations are all well considered and compelling. -- James Dobbins, Former Special Envoy for Afghanistan, Kosovo, Bosnia, Haiti, and Somalia Criminalized Power Structures: The Overlooked Enemies of Peace persuasively documents the damage done to prospects for peace when illicit wealth meets unscrupulous political power. The case studies show the depth and breadth of that damage in place after place, while Dziedzic’s analysis draws upon years of research and experience to systematically reframe our views of peace ‘spoiler’ motives, goals and means. The result, with its second volume, Combating Criminalized Power Structures: A Toolkit, is wise counsel for dealing with these power structures that any peacebuilding enterprise should heed if it hopes to build the peace that it seeks. -- William Durch, Distinguished Fellow, The Stimson Center, Washington, DC. Criminalized Power Structures: The Overlooked Enemies of Peace and Combating Criminalized Power Structures: A Toolkit perform a vital service in the study of fragile states.  Based on ten case histories from four continents, they demonstrate that criminalized power structures are a key element in promoting instability and describe the circumstances in which these structures can be tamed. Essential reading for policymakers and scholars. -- John Herbst, Former State Department Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization Criminalized Power Structures: The Overlooked Enemies of Peace and Combating Criminalized Power Structures: A Toolkit  provide remarkable insights into criminalized power structures in conflict and post-conflict environments.  This often overlooked phenomenon can have immense effects on peacekeeping and stabilization efforts.  The volumes provide an important framework and practical insights that may help policymakers to better address these issues. -- Enrique Desmond Arias, Director, Peace Operations Policy Program, Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University At last, the subject of illicit power structures given the prominence it deserves! Here it is how to understand and implement better conflict prevention, effectively manage post-conflict situations, save millions of dollars in the process and in broader form push back against the rottenness of political corruption and criminal exploitation that permanently ruin the lives of populations in failing or failed states. Arrestingly and plainly revealed, the shameful motives that from the beginning of each international peace mission confound capacity- and institution-building are described by Mike Dzeidzic and seasoned practitioners in such compelling detail that tackling them should become the sine qua non of all future mission-planning. This is a piece of revelatory work and we deserve to hear the sound of brisk footsteps along government corridors as senior officials, grasping copies of this book, seek immediate entree to policy makers offices demanding major doctrinal changes. -- Richard Monk, Former UN Police Commissioner Bosnia and Kosovo, Member of the Brahimi Panel

Author Information

Michael Dziedzic is vice president of Pax Advisory and a retired US Air Force Colonel. He began this project this project while a senior program officer at the US Institute of Peace. Contributors Haki Abazi, Elizabeth Andersen, Paul Acda, Alix Boucher, Scott N. Carlson, Matt Chessen, Christine Clough, Lorenzo Delesgues, James Dorough-Lewis Jr., Michael Dziedzic, Dana P. Eyre, Huma Gupta, Michael E. Hartmann, Marcia Byrom Hartwell, Robert Krech, Mark Kroeker, George A. Lopez, Merriam Mashatt, Bertram Welsing

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