It Stays With You: Use of Force by UN Peacekeepers in Haiti
- Submitting institution
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University of Ulster
- Unit of assessment
- 18 - Law
- Output identifier
- 76450610
- Type
- Q - Digital or visual media
- Publisher
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- Month
- December
- Year
- 2020
- URL
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https://ulster.sharepoint.com/:b:/s/REF2021/EfMYi3nWz8REpkNShmHvAJsB7_MhHZAGRXKHRpxDVQJw5g?e=TsZegE
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- This multi-component output contains comprises a body of associated work demonstrating sustained research effort and a complex multi-layered process of creative investigation. It comprises two films produced in collaboration with marginalised communities in Haiti and Brazil, using participatory practices; an article setting and reflecting on the methodology and the aims and outcomes of the project; and a website, which includes project information and updates and nine short videos produced by residents of Cité Soleil. Wills is the primary investigator on both AHRC projects, the co-producer and co-director of both films and the lead author of the article.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This folder comprises two films, a website and an article reflecting on the research project aims, processes and outcomes, which are the research outputs of two linked AHRC-funded projects – one on law enforcement operations by the Brazilian-led UN Stabilisation Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) and one on militarised policing operations by Brazilian troops and police in Rio de Janeiro.
The films It Stays With You and Right Now I Want to Scream were produced using participatory practices. Participants retain co-ownership of their stories and control over how they are presented. The films’ structures aimed at offering participants an international platform on which to tell their stories and were designed with participants leading the way – their voices come first occupying the major part of the film’s space.
It Stays With You investigates how peacekeepers' legal authority to use deadly force, was interpreted by MINUSTAH and whether MINUSTAH complied with its human rights law obligations. Hitherto, most of the reporting on MINUSTAH’s operations has come from the mission itself, people working with the mission, political parties, the business sector and foreign embassies. Participants told us that no one from the UN or the Haitian government had visited their neighbourhood after operations, investigate injuries or provide medical assistance or hear their testimonies.
Right Now I Want to Scream investigates violations of the rights to life and health caused by militarised policing in Rio de Janeiro. Brazil has explicitly used the experience of its soldiers as UN peacekeepers as a model for its policing of Rio’s favelas operations. The influence of ex-MINUSTAH personnel in setting Brazilian security policy increased significantly in 2019 under President Bolsonaro. Five of his cabinet ministers served with MINUSTAH. Brazil’s military leadership has demanded and secured rules of engagement and protections from prosecution, similar to those afforded UN peacekeepers.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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