A Future for Peacekeeping?

by Edward Moxon-Browne

Overview

This study challenges the easy assumption that peacekeeping as we've known it in the past will be the 'pill for every ill' in the future. A 'new world order' means new types of conflict breaking out almost anywhere in a world that is more volatile and less predictable than before. Contributors to this volume argue that we need to get back to basics; that there are sobering lessons to be learnt from Somalia, the Lebanon and Cambodia; that we need to ask some fundamental questions. Can peacekeeping be 'reformed' or must it be totally 'reinvented'? Are soldiers the best peacekeepers and, if not, who should replace them?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349260294
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/1998
Edition description:	1st ed. 1998
Pages:	214
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

List of Tables - Preface - United Nations Peacekeeping: An Introduction; C.Heje - The Theory of Conflict Resolution and the Practice of Peacekeeping; S.Ryan - Recent Developments in Peacekeeping: The Irish Military Experience; O.Macdonald - India and UN Peacekeeping; A.Bullion - The Perils of Peacekeeping for the US: Relearning Lessons from Beirut for Bosnia; G.Hammond - Learning from the Failure of Disarmament and Conflict Resolution in Somalia; C.Adibe - Voices from Warzones: Implications for Training UN Peacekeepers; B.Fetherston - Gender, Race and the Politics of Peacekeeping; S.Whitworth - A Future for Peacekeeping?; E.Moxon-Browne - Appendix A: United Nations Peacekeeping Operations 1996; C.Heje - Index

Editorial Reviews

The collection of essays originated at a 1995 conference in Limerick which brought together academic, military, police and civilian experts in the field of UN peacekeeping. Contributors discuss the extent to which the traditional concept of peacekeeping has been replaced by the new concepts of peace enforcement and peacebuilding; the increase in civilian participation in peacekeeping tasks; the shift away from inter-state towards intra-state conflicts; the increasingly complex character of contemporary peacekeeping operations; and whether soldiers make the best peacekeepers. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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