Researcher - The Global Security research programme

touko.piiparinenfiia.fi
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Academic degree
PhD, University of Wales, Aberystwyth (UK), Department of International Politics

Expertise
UN peace operations and global crisis management
Post-conflict peace-building and state-building
Humanitarian intervention in armed conflicts

Ongoing research projects
Global peace operations, Responsibility to Protect doctrine, the emerging norm of humanitarian sovereignty-building

(2010) The Transformation of UΝ Conflict Management: Producing Images of Genocide from Rwanda to Darfur and Beyond. London: Routledge.

(2007) ‘The Lessons of Darfur for the Future of Humanitarian Intervention’, Global Governance (Vol. 13, No. 3), pp. 365-90.

(2007) ‘Putting the Cart before the Horse: Statebuilding, Early Warning and the Irrationality of Bureaucratic Rationalisation’, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding (Vol. 1, No. 3), pp. 355-78

Languages
Finnish and English (working languages), Swedish (receptive)