Download or read book Mission with UNIFIL written by Emmanuel A. Erskine and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A decade of UNIFIL United Nations Interim Forces in Lebanon A critical approach to the effectiveness and appropriateness of UN peacekeeping based on the example of UNIFIL written by David Federhen and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2004-07-13 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject Politics - Topic: International Organisations, grade: A = 1, International University in Germany Bruchsal (Department of Sciences and Liberal Arts), language: English, abstract: This paper discusses the role of UN peacekeeping missions at the case of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) by looking into its first ten years of operation. The author comes to the conclusion that UNIFIL failed to achieve what it was established for, but at the same time points out that inefficient or even ineffective UN peacekeeping missions do nothing to undermine the general idea and justifiability of peacekeeping as a measure for inter-state or infra-state conflict resolution. Since its formation in 1945, the United Nations Organization has engaged in numerous peacekeeping missions around the world, the first of which was installed in 1956 to resolve the Suez-crisis. Some of those missions have been concluded in rather short periods of time. Others, as will become apparent throughout this text, have not been concluded successfully even after decades. This text will critically discuss on the role and effectiveness of UN peacekeeping missions by taking a closer look at the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) which was formed and consequently put into action in 1978 – but has proved to be unable to fulfill its mandate until today. By analyzing the case of UNIFIL the author will illustrate some of the major problems which impair such peacekeeping missions from being concluded successfully, and eventually cause them to last for decades. For this purpose, the first part of this text will be dedicated to what constitutes an UN peacekeeping mission. In the second part of this text the author will briefly provide background information on UNIFIL and major events that took place between 1978 and 1988 – a period by itself considered long enough by the author to make a qualified judgment about UNIFIL’s effectiveness since it was actually supposed to serve as “ ‘an interim measure until the Government of Lebanon assumes its full responsibilities in southern Lebanon’ ” (Thakur, 1987, p. 40). [...]
Download or read book Unifil written by Willem-Jan Van der Wolf and published by Wolf Legal Publications. This book was released on 2010-12 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection contains material from the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) peacekeeping mission. It includes resolutions, letters, reports, and statements related to UNIFIL. It will be useful to all who are interested in peacekeeping missions and the process of decision-making.
Download or read book UNIFIL written by Michael Keaveney and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon written by Elena Aoun and published by Géopolitique et résolution des conflits / Geopolitics and Conflict Resolution. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes the UNIFIL as a multinational peacekeeping force deployed in a highly strained context. It investigates the defining features of UNIFIL's environment, the multicultural challenges to its smooth operation and the pattern and impact of the rise of non-European countries.
Download or read book UN Peacekeeping UNIFIL and the Fijian Experience written by Jim Sanday and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of United Nations Peacekeeping Operations written by Joachim Koops and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-09 with total page 1031 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook on United Nations Peacekeeping Operations presents an innovative, authoritative, and accessible examination and critique of the United Nations peacekeeping operations. Since the late 1940s, but particularly since the end of the cold war, peacekeeping has been a central part of the core activities of the United Nations and a major process in global security governance and the management of international relations in general. The volume will present a chronological analysis, designed to provide a comprehensive perspective that highlights the evolution of UN peacekeeping and offers a detailed picture of how the decisions of UN bureaucrats and national governments on the set-up and design of particular UN missions were, and remain, influenced by the impact of preceding operations. The volume will bring together leading scholars and senior practitioners in order to provide overviews and analyses of all 65 peacekeeping operations that have been carried out by the United Nations since 1948. As with all Oxford Handbooks, the volume will be agenda-setting in importance, providing the authoritative point of reference for all those working throughout international relations and beyond.
Download or read book Unifil written by Willem-Jan Van der Wolf and published by Wolf Legal Publications. This book was released on 2010-12 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection contains material from the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) peacekeeping mission. It includes resolutions, letters, reports, and statements related to UNIFIL. It will be useful to all who are interested in peacekeeping missions and the process of decision-making.
Download or read book Peacekeeping in South Lebanon written by Vanessa F. Newby and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-08 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the concept of credibility has been identified by the United Nations as a significant factor in successful peacekeeping operations, its role has largely been ignored in the literature on peacekeeping at the local level. In this book, Newby provides the first detailed examination of credibility’s essential place in peacekeeping. With empirically rich analysis, Newby explores the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) and its navigation of political tensions in one of the world’s geopolitical flashpoints, a place where the mission’s work is constrained by weak local legitimacy born of a complex political situation. Identifying four types of credibility—technical, material, security, and responsiveness—Newby traces the ways in which building credibility served UNIFIL and has enabled the mission to exercise its mandate despite significant challenges on the ground. Peacekeeping in South Lebanon unpacks the day-to-day business of running a peace mission and argues that credibility should be regarded as an independent construct when considering how a peacekeeping operation functions and survives.
Download or read book UN Peacekeeping Operations and the Protection of Civilians written by Conor Foley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-07 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is based on the author's experience of working for more than two decades in over thirty conflict and post-conflict zones. It is written for those involved in UN peacekeeping and the protection of civilians. It is intended to be accessible to non-lawyers working in the field who may need to know the applicable legal standards relating to issues such as the use of force and arrest and detention powers on the one hand and the delivery of life-saving assistance according to humanitarian principles on the other. It will also be of interest to scholars and students of peacekeeping, international law and international relations on the practical dilemmas facing those trying to operationalise the various conceptions of 'protection' during humanitarian crises in recent years.
Download or read book Soldiers on International Missions written by Stéphanie Vincent Lyk-Jensen and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-24 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates how the lives of soldiers deployed on international missions are affected during deployment and after returning home to family, work, and civilian life. Analyses are based on unique longitudinal data, comprehensive and deep interviews, making it possible to follow the impact of deployment on a broad range of life outcomes.
Download or read book The Use of Force in UN Peace Operations written by Trevor Findlay and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2002 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most vexing issues that has faced the international community since the end of the Cold War has been the use of force by the United Nations peacekeeping forces. UN intervention in civil wars, as in Somalia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Rwanda, has thrown into stark relief the difficulty of peacekeepers operating in situations where consent to their presence and activities is fragile or incomplete and where there is little peace to keep. Complex questions arise in these circumstances. When and how should peacekeepers use force to protect themselves, to protect their mission, or, most troublingly, to ensure compliance by recalcitrant parties with peace accords? Is a peace enforcement role for peacekeepers possible or is this simply war by another name? Is there a grey zone between peacekeeping and peace enforcement? Trevor Findlay reveals the history of the use of force by UN peacekeepers from Sinai in the 1950s to Haiti in the 1990s. He untangles the arguments about the use of force in peace operations and sets these within the broader context of military doctrine and practice. Drawing on these insights the author examines proposals for future conduct of UN operations, including the formulation of UN peacekeeping doctrine and the establishment of a UN rapid reaction force.
Download or read book Power in Peacekeeping written by Lise Morjé Howard and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-16 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains how peacekeeping can work effectively by employing power through verbal persuasion, financial inducement, and coercion short of offensive force.
Download or read book Perception of the Host Community to Peacekeeping Missions written by Myriam A. Karam and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studying and analyzing local perceptions of peacekeeping missions have recently headed the forefront of United Nations peacekeeping objectives. UNIFIL which has been present for more than 35 years in Southern Lebanon has long sought to interact with the local population within an environment that is politically and economically challenging. This paper aimed at studying the perception of the local population towards UNIFIL. By reviewing the long years of interaction since the missions inception in 1978, UNIFILs humanitarian services and projects created a climate of positive interaction within a community that has long suffered from continuous instability and the consequences of war. This positive climate is hindered with UNIFILs inability to impede successive Israeli invasions and infringements of Lebanese territory. One could argue that UNIFILs development of humanitarian services and expansion of its service delivery along the years served as a legitimation of its presence amongst the host community. To have a clear view of the host community perception, a public opinion survey was conducted. The survey sets out religious affiliation as the most discriminatory factor amongst the local population. Shias diverted in their response compared to others which affected the whole response rate. It was revealed that they are dissatisfied with UNIFILs security provision and implementation of its mandate. This fact can be highly related to the Shias political affiliation, whereby Hezbollah is the most influential. In regards to Hezbollah, UNIFIL is seen favorably as long as it contributes in withholding Israel from undertaking any military action on the Lebanese territory. But its military actions against the Israeli enemy, is done regardless of UNIFILs presence and mandate implementation.
Download or read book Protecting Civilians written by Siobhán Wills and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-02-26 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical review of civilian protection by UN peacekeepers -- The extent to which peacekeeping and other multi-national forces have a general 'responsibility to protect' under international humanitarian law -- The extent to which peacekeeping and other multi-national forces have a general 'responsibility to protect' under international human rights law -- The applicability of occupation law to peacekeeping and other multi-national operations -- Implications for peacekeepers and other multi-national forces.
Download or read book Composing Peace written by Chiara Ruffa and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-04-23 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Composing Peace: Mission Composition in UN Peacekeeping is about mission composition in peacekeeping operations and asks how diversity of mission composition influences the ability of a peace mission to keep the peace. This book focuses on four types of mission composition--diversity among peacekeepers, within the mission leadership, between mission leaders and peacekeepers, and between peacekeepers and locals. It is the first book to explore mission composition and its consequences, unpacking a concept hitherto unexplored and empirically combining quantitative and qualitative methods. It makes an important contribution to the fields of peace research, security studies, and international relations at large.
Download or read book The UN Peacekeeping Practice in Southern Lebanon written by Susann Hassan Kassem and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis examines the activities of the United Nations Interim Force In Lebanon (UNIFIL)--a "peace-keeping" organization--in order to address the dynamics and challenges of this international institution and its work in local communities within a conflict zone. My research focuses on the work of UNIFIL Civil Affairs employees and assesses their relationship to the local population using qualitative analysis of the acceptance or rejection of UNIFIL initiatives, rules, instruments and terms of engagement. UNIFIL was deployed in southern Lebanon in 1978 with the stated objectives "of confirming the withdrawal of Israeli forces, restoring international peace and security and assisting the Government of Lebanon in ensuring its effective authority in the area". Following the July/August war of 2006, the size of the UNIFIL mission was significantly expanded from around 2,000 soldiers to a maximum of 15,000. My study seeks to show the implications of this expansion and to trace the "flows of experts, international organizations, and military personnel" in the area. Extensive field research in the village of Blida reflects upon the perceptions of UNIFIL by ordinary people and community leaders, as well as the regulations of the international mandate in light of Lebanese sovereignty and local self-determination. My investigation reveals that while UNIFIL has faced marked criticism for their conflict management and military activities, their so-called "Quick Impact Projects", investment opportunities and humanitarian assistance designed for the immediate benefit of the local community, have led to a partial acceptance of this sizable foreign battalion from the people of southern Lebanon. By looking at this "peace-keeping" mission in a post-9/11 context, this thesis shows how the objectives and implications the War on Terror influenced the design of this mission at the global level. Regarding the mission of UNIFIL in perspective with military interventions pursued by the "international community" in "states of emergency", this thesis questions this particular institution's conceptualization of "peace." In conclusion this anthropological study on UNIFIL aims to deconstruct often naturalized and depoliticized assumptions about the state of conflict, utilizing a critical approach in order to question the often silently accepted "humanitarian interventions" of the past decades.
