Improvising the liberal peace model

Combining an academic approach and a practitioner’s perspective, this chapter aims to politicise the multiple encounters between a predefined peace operation model and everyday field realities. Based on a Postcolonial ² perspective, it is argued that the conventional peace operation model is, at the field level, constantly challenged, renegotiated, and hence improvised. By looking specifically at the Mission des Nations Unies pour la stabilisation en Haiti (MINUSTAH), ³ this piece calls attention to the inevitable adaptations that the liberal peace model suffers when translated by postcolonial peacekeepers at the field level.