Overview

United Nations peacekeepers have been sent around the world for nearly five decades to help war-weary people maintain cease-fires, implement force separations, and most recently, make transitions to democracy. Half of those missions have begun since the end of the Cold War, and have helped make the UN headline news. This volume is a comprehensive post-Cold War assessment of this important tool of conflict containment, its recent, rapid growth and development, the factors that make it work and the new pressures that place the whole concept at risk. Based on a two-year study for the Ford Foundation by the Henry L. Stimson Centre, this book includes 20 case studies of UN peacekeeping operations from 1947 to 1991, and is suitable for use in courses on international law and organization, regional conflict, conflict management and co-operative security.

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Author:   William J Durvh ,  Jayne Caudwell
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1994 ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 4.10cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.822kg
ISBN:  

9780312066000

ISBN 10:   0312066007
Pages:   511
Publication Date:   20 April 1993
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Part 1 Lessons learned: getting involved - political-military contexts; paying the tab - financial crises; running the show - planning and implementation. Part 2 Peacekeeping in the Mediterranean and the Middle East: Special Committee On the Balkans (UNSCOB), K.Th. Birgisson; Truce Supervisory Organization (UNTSO), M. Ghali; Emergency Force I (UNEF I), M. Ghali; Emergency Force II (UNEF II), M. Ghali; Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF), M. Ghali; Observation Group in Lebanon (UNOGIL), M. Ghali; Interim Force in Lebanon (UNFIL), M. Ghali; Yemen Obervation Mission (UNYOM), K.Th. Birgisson; the Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP), K.Th. Birgisson; Iran-Iraq Military Observer Group (UNIKOM), B.D. Smith. Part 3 Peacekeeping in South and South East Asia: Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP), K.Th. Birgisson; Transitional Executive Authority in West New Guinea (UNTEA), W.J. Durch; Good Offices Mission in Afghanistan and Pakistan (UNGOMAP), K.Th. Birgisson. Part 4 Peacekeeping in Africa: Operation in the Congo (ONUC), W.J. Durch; Transitional Assistance Group for Namibia (UNTAG), V. Page Fortna; Angola Verification Mission I (UNAVEM I), V. Page Fortna; Angola Verification Mission II (UNAVEM II), V. Page Fortna; Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO), W.J. Durch. Part 5 Peacekeeping in the Western Hemisphere: Observer Mission in Central America (ONUCA), B.D. Smith and W.J. Durch; Epilogue - peacekeeping in uncharted territory.

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