Document Type

Article

Publication Date

4-2019

Abstract

As a disciplinarian of international organizations, reputation has serious shortcomings. Even though international organizations have strong incentives to maintain a good reputation, reputational concerns will sometimes fail to spur preventive or corrective action. Organizations have multiple audiences, so efforts to preserve a “good” reputation may pull organizations in many different directions, and steps taken to preserve a good reputation will not always be salutary. Recent incidents of sexual violence by UN peacekeepers in the Central African Republic illustrate these points.

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This article is reproduced with permission from the April 2019 issue of the American Journal of International Law © 2019 American Society of International Law. All rights reserved.


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