Master's Thesis from the year 2012 in the subject Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict, Security, grade: 65, Coventry University (Centre for Peace and Reconciliation Studies), course: Peacebuilding, language: English, abstract: Peacebuilding operations are organizational structures in emergencyenvironments or post-conflict areas working to restore and maintain stablepeace. The specificity of the geographical or political instability makes itnecessary for these entities to count on with technical security departmentsin charge of securing the well-being of staff members and protectingprograms and assets. To effectively perform these tasks, mission internalsecurity departments produce a set of security regulations comprised in threedifferent operational blocks: security plans, security standard operationprocedures and contingency plans, and risk and threat assessments. Thesenorms are then communicated, trained on, and enforced to all mission staffmembers. Often staff members in peacebuilding missions disregard securityregulations, either conscious or unconsciously, causing secondary negativeeffects on mission's operations, perceptions, and relations, and slow down oreven stop programs. Often, as well, technical security departmentsemploy a larger amount of time to enforcement than required due to lack ofcompliance with security policy. The aim of this study is to present a set of methodologies at theoperational, perceptual, and relational level that implemented andcoordinated by missions' technical security departments could positivelysupport and enhance missions' performance in security and safety, butextrapolated to peacebuilding activities and mandate objectives. It is understood and explained that security regulations can affect theinteroperability of a mission, in the sense that it can slow down and restrictprograms, especially in high risk environments. Therefore, the focus isplaced in peacebuilding operations with a moderate risk level, defined in theUnited Nations language as Security Phases one and two.
