United Nations Peacekeeping Operations: Ad Hoc Missions, Permanent Engagement

281 Pages·2002·1.19 MB·English

by  Ramesh Thakur

United Nations
peacekeeping operations:
Ad hoc missions,
permanent engagement
Edited by Ramesh Thakur and
Albrecht Schnabel
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United Nations peacekeeping
operations: Ad hoc missions,
permanent engagement
Edited by Ramesh Thakur and Albrecht Schnabel
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Contents
Acknowledgements.................................................... viii
List of acronyms....................................................... x
Part I: Challenges of post-Cold War peacekeeping ................. 1
1 Cascading generations of peacekeeping: Across the Mogadishu
line to Kosovo and Timor......................................... 3
Ramesh Thakur and Albrecht Schnabel
2 Peacekeeping and the violence in ethnic conflict ................ 26
Roger Mac Ginty and Gillian Robinson
3 The role of the UN Secretariat in organizing peacekeeping .... 46
Hisako Shimura
4 Policing the peace ................................................. 57
Michael O’Connor
Part II: Regional experiences......................................... 75
5 Regional peacekeeping in the CIS................................ 77
S. Neil MacFarlane
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6 Towards more effective peace operations: Learning from the
African ‘‘laboratory’’?............................................. 100
Mark Malan
7 Establishing the credibility of a regional peacekeeping
capability........................................................... 129
Vere Hayes
Part III: Experiences from Cambodia, former Yugoslavia, and
East Timor............................................................. 147
8 The politics of UN peacekeeping from Cambodia to
Yugoslavia ......................................................... 149
Yasushi Akashi
9 The Cambodian experience: A success story still?............... 155
John Sanderson
10 UN peacekeeping operations in the former Yugoslavia – from
UNPROFOR to Kosovo .......................................... 167
Satish Nambiar
11 Civilian police in UN peace operations: Some lessons from
recent Australian experience...................................... 182
John McFarlane and William Maley
Part IV: A new beginning? The road to Brahimi and beyond...... 213
12 Peacekeeping and the changing role of the United Nations:
Four dilemmas..................................................... 215
Margaret P. Karns and Karen A. Mingst
13 From An Agenda for Peace to the Brahimi Report: Towards a
new era of UN peace operations? ................................ 238
Albrecht Schnabel and Ramesh Thakur
Contributors ........................................................... 256
Index................................................................... 262
For the peacekeepers who died in the line of duty
They gave their lives for peace
Acknowledgements
The idea for this book was triggered by the United Nations University’s
October 1999 UN Day Symposium on Peacekeeping, in which some of
the book contributors participated. The positive response to the sympo-
siumencouragedustoinviteourspeakers,alongwithotherselectedcon-
tributors, to join in an examination of the lessons that should be learned
frompastpeacekeepingpracticesforfuturepeacekeepingoperations.The
contributionofourbooktotheongoingdebateonthenature,legality,and
practicalityofpeacekeepingliesintheuniquecompositionofthechapter
contributors – half of them are academic ‘‘observers’’ of peacekeeping,
while the other half are practitioners who have been intimately involved,
in the field and at UN Headquarters, in the planning and execution of
some of the most crucial peacekeeping operations of the past 10 years.
We hope that the combined insights of these contributions will prove
useful to scholars, practitioners, and students of UN peacekeeping.
We are indebted to Yoshie Sawada, our administrative assistant, and
ChifumiMizutani,theprogramme’ssecretary,fortheirtirelesssupportin
the many administrative aspects of this project.
The publication of this book benefited greatly from the support we re-
ceived from UNU Press and its Head, Janet Boileau. We greatly appre-
ciate the careful copyediting work by Cherry Ekins, and the very helpful
comments provided bytheanonymous peer reviewers of thedraft manu-
script.Finally,weareindebtedtoourfamilieswhohaveagainenduredthe
many hours we spent on this, our second, co-edited book project.
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