International Peacekeeping Training Centers

Security Assistance, Peacekeeping and Postcolonial Ethics
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-90-485-7286-1
Verlag: Pallas Publications

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: War, Conflict and Genocide Studies

This book examines the politics of international peacekeeping training centres as key sites where security is shaped, practiced, and legitimized. Focusing on two prominent institutions—the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (Ghana) and the Center of Excellence for Stability Police Units (Italy)—it investigates how peacekeeping training influences understandings of security Assistance.

Based on site-intensive fieldwork, desk research, and interviews, the book analyses how training centres operate at the crossroads of international organisations, national governments, and security forces, with particular attention to Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration (DDR), the Responsibility to Protect (R2P), human trafficking, and the role of the European Union. It highlights how indicators, data practices, and symbolic performances are mobilised to claim authority and credibility. The author situates these dynamics within debates in international relations and critical security studies and offers a new perspective on how knowledge is produced, circulated, and used in the governance of security.

With its attention to the everyday practices of training in two training centers in Europe and West Africa, this book will appeal to students and scholars of international relations, security studies, and African and European politics, as well as practitioners and non-specialist readers interested in peace and security.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Peirolo, Silvia

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Friedens- und Konfliktforschung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Nationale und Internationale Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Besondere Kriege und Kampagnen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of Contents

- Introduction

- Chapter 1. Conceptualizing practices of security assistance

- Chapter 2. Navigating the Field of Training Centers: Methodological considerations, Positionality, and Ethical challenges

- Chapter 3. A Glimpse into Everyday Life in Training Centers

- Chapter 4. The enactment and performance of statehood in training

- Chapter 5. The locals: the outlaws or the victims?

- Chapter 6. What does it take to build peace?

- Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Silvia Peirolo is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Political Science and International Relations, University of Palermo, Italy. Her research examines knowledge circulation in security governance, the protection of cultural heritage and schools in post-conflict settings, and political violence in Europe and West Africa.