The evolution of organizational learning in the UN peace operations bureaucracy

Abstract: "This research paper analyzes the efforts of the past decade to turn the UN peace operations apparatus into a learning organization. It begins by examining a traditional organizational culture of peacekeeping, which is the subject of section 2 of this paper. The traditional culture emerged under the conditions of Cold War peacekeeping operations. It prized maximum political flexibility over professional management practices. After the shock of the UN's catastrophic failures in the face of genocide in Rwanda and Srebrenica, this traditional culture came to be challenged by a new generation of peace operations officials. This group of 'reformers' promoted objectives such as critical reflection and organizational learning while the 'traditionalists' sought to protect the organization from excessive bureaucratic standardization. Section 3 details the structural and political constraints to learning that the reform agenda had to deal with in the beginning. The peace operations bureaucra

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource, 40 S.
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Veröffentlichungsversion

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Forschung DSF ; Bd. 31

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Öffentliche Verwaltung ; Politik

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Osnabrück
• (when): 2011
• Creator: Benner, Thorsten ; Mergenthaler, Stephan ; Rotmann, Philipp
• Contributor: Deutsche Stiftung Friedensforschung

Further information

• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-365149
• Rights: Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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