Police-Building and the Responsibility to Protect: Civil society, gender and human rights culture in Oceania (Global Politics and the Responsibility to Protect)

This book examines how the UN and states provide assistance for the police services of developing states to help them meet their human rights obligations to their citizens, under the responsibility to protect (R2P) provisions.It examines police-capacity building ("police-building") by international donors in Timor-Leste, Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea (PNG).All three states have been described as "fragile states" and "states of concern", and all have witnessed significant social tensions and violence in the past decades.The authors argue that globally police-building forms part of an attempt to make states "safe" so that they can adhere to norms of human rights with the framework of a developing democratic polity, allow the flow of capital for investment and profit taking, and be responsible members of the international community.Oceania as a region thus illuminates numerous issues in post-conflict state-building found in other parts of the world.The case studies explore internat