The 98th ASC Seminar will be held with Associate Prof. Louisa Lombard, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Yale University. Please come along and join us if you are in the area, you can also join us via Zoom, please register in advance.
Title: "The Initiative-Killing Machine: The End and the Future of Peacekeeping"
Abstract: In the 21st century, expectations of UN military peacekeepers have risen. They are supposed to do whatever it takes to protect civilians - including use force. However, the increase in writ has been accompanied by an increase in bureaucracy and risk aversion, putting the soldiers in a bind. My ethnographic research with Rwandan soldiers working as peacekeepers shows the everyday ways that UN peacekeeping has therefore become redundant in the complicated conflict management marketplaces of Central Africa today, and is being taken over by bilateral and sub-regional deployments that make no pretense of impartiality. This talk illustrates these points by looking at the problem of command (the philosophy of how to get soldiers to do things), arguing that rather than a command philosophy, the UN has a control philosophy. The result is an initiative-killing machine.
◆Speaker: Associate Prof. Louisa Lombard, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Yale University https://anthropology.yale.edu/
◆Date：December 11th, 2024 (Wed) 5:40p.m.～7:10p.m.（JST）/ 8:40a.m.～10:10a.m.（GMT)
◆Venue：Hybrid
Onsite： Room107（1F Research and lecture bldg.,TUFS Fuchu Campus）
Online：ZOOM
◆Language：English
◆Addmission fee：Free
【Please pre-register in advence from here】Or Use QR Code.
Registration deadline: Noon Dec 11th, 2024 (Wed)
The Zoom link will be sent after you pre-registerd.
◆Jointly organized by African Studies Center - TUFS and Kanto Branch of Japan Association for African Studies
Report
We held the 98th seminar in a hybrid style and 16 participated on-site and 23 participated online.
Prof. Louisa Lombard gave her presentation on 'The Initiative-Killing Machine: The End and the Future of Peacekeeping', being followed by lively discussion among Japanese and African scholars and also students in TUFS.