The Construction Mechanism of United Nations Peacekeeping Discourses and the Evaluation of their Concepts and Effects
United Nations"peacekeeping"operations are an important component of"rules-based"global security governance.As the dominant form of global security governance,the effectiveness and legitimacy of rules-based governance depend on the constructive role of discourse and the concepts it carries through mechanisms of orientation,mobilization and competition.The set of discourses of"peacekeeping","peacebuilding",and"peace enforcement"and the security concepts they carry guide the international community's cognitive and normative thinking and answers to"what peacekeeping is(or is not)"and"how to do peacekeeping".Discourse communication and its dissemination,with the United Nations,its agencies and its personnel as the actors,play a mobilizing role,underpinning the persuasive,penetrative and even coercive power of the concepts concerned.Competition among all related parties around ideas,discourse and discursive power is not only an important part of UN peacekeeping,but also a driving force for changes in the mechanism and model of UN peacekeeping.In essence,UN peacekeeping is not a"balance of power"based on material force,nor is it a"violence against violence".Instead,it advocates security concepts and the dissemination of discourse,through which consensus can be reached and effective collective action constructed,so as to maintain and shape the regional and global security environment.Nowadays,with complex and diverse security concepts and related discourse competition,effective global security governance and United Nations peacekeeping operations objectively require all related parties to continuously expand convergent points of security concepts and promote coordination of security concepts.
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