Victoria Motta de Lamare França works as a Research Assistant at the Centre on Conflict, Development, and Peacebuilding (CCDP) and as a Teaching and Research Director at the Debates Pós-Coloniais e Decoloniais Extension Project. Currently, she is pursuing a PhD in International Relations and Political Science at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies.

• Introduction.- The UN Community Liaison Assistants in the United Nations Discourse and the Local Turn Literature.- Found and Lost in Translation: Centering Protection Through Interpretations, Positionalities, and Tactics.- The Community Liaison Assistants and the Politics of Translation in UN Peace Operations’ Protection Discourses.- In-Between Magic and Mimicry: The Politics of the Community Liaison Assistants’ In-Visibility and the ‘Betrayals’ of Translating the Protection of Civilians Agenda.- Concluding Remarks.

Victoria Motta de Lamare França works as a Research Assistant at the Centre on Conflict, Development, and Peacebuilding (CCDP) and as a Teaching and Research Director at the Debates Pós-Coloniais e Decoloniais Extension Project. Currently, she is pursuing a PhD in International Relations and Political Science at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies.

• Introduction.- The UN Community Liaison Assistants in the United Nations Discourse and the Local Turn Literature.- Found and Lost in Translation: Centering Protection Through Interpretations, Positionalities, and Tactics.- The Community Liaison Assistants and the Politics of Translation in UN Peace Operations’ Protection Discourses.- In-Between Magic and Mimicry: The Politics of the Community Liaison Assistants’ In-Visibility and the ‘Betrayals’ of Translating the Protection of Civilians Agenda.- Concluding Remarks.

Victoria Motta de Lamare França works as a Research Assistant at the Centre on Conflict, Development, and Peacebuilding (CCDP) and as a Teaching and Research Director at the Debates Pós-Coloniais e Decoloniais Extension Project. Currently, she is pursuing a PhD in International Relations and Political Science at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies.

• Introduction.- The UN Community Liaison Assistants in the United Nations Discourse and the Local Turn Literature.- Found and Lost in Translation: Centering Protection Through Interpretations, Positionalities, and Tactics.- The Community Liaison Assistants and the Politics of Translation in UN Peace Operations’ Protection Discourses.- In-Between Magic and Mimicry: The Politics of the Community Liaison Assistants’ In-Visibility and the ‘Betrayals’ of Translating the Protection of Civilians Agenda.- Concluding Remarks.