Revisiting borders between civilians and military

Security and Development in Peace Operations and Post-conflict Situations

“Revisiting Borders between Civilians and Military: Security and Development in Peace Operations and Post-Conflict Situations” was the title of an international meeting hosted by VIVA RIO in 2009. Participants from various countries presented their arguments and shared their experiences on the opportunities and the limitations for cooperation, in post-conflict and peace operations, between military and civilians (including police officers, civil society and government development agencies).

It was the first event of the kind in Brazil, if one considers the dimension of the theme, the variation of the panels, the nationality of the speakers and the institutional affiliation of the participants. Such a combined effort definitely requires a publication that would both register the voices and grant further access to the ideas shared by prominent representatives from the military, police and civilian parts of the complex equation that now rules contemporary peacekeeping.

By organizing this international event and by presenting the peacekeeping community with this publication, Viva Rio’s “Peace Operations project” offers a timid but decisive contribution to provoke, produce and disseminate critical knowledge on peacekeeping operations.

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