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 International Peacekeeping In Lebanon written by Ramesh Thakur and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the efficacy of U.N. peace efforts, Dr. Ramesh Thakur compares limited peacekeeping through U.N. authority with more coercive means such as the Multinational Force (MNF) in Lebanon. He finds that the role of the U.S.-led MNF coalition cannot be justified in terms of great-power responsibility for ensuring a stable international order, since the coalition has attempted to substitute military power for authoritative peacekeeping. When MNF legitimacy was questioned and authority was challenged, the MNF's use of force in response to those challenges switched the coalition's role from third-party peacekeeper to factional participant. As a result, every successive attempt to strengthen the MNF mandate has further subordinated the concept of neutral international peacekeeping to calculated support of national interests. If reasoned attempts to keep the peace are not to collapse into exercises in national self-interest, then peacekeeping responsibilities must remain with the U.N., supported by the great powers: Only the U.N. can provide an authoritative exposition of values within the context of international society and bestow international legitimacy upon peacekeeping activities; only the great powers can back the U.N. with requisite force.
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.
Download or read book Peacekeeping On Arab Israeli Fronts written by Nathan A Pelcovits and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1948, the United Nations has sponsored virtually every third party peacekeeping mission on Arab· Israeli fronts. Three recent events, however, have been responsible for significantly altering the pattern of peacekeeping in the region: the Camp David accords, which, because they were opposed in the U.N. by the Soviet Union and most Arab nations, prevented U.N. sponsorship of a Sinai peacekeeping force; the June 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon, during which the U.N. Interim Force was made to look ineffectual; and the Sabra-Shatila massacres in South Beirut three months later, which prompted the deployment of a multinational peacekeeping force. Dr.Pelcovits analyzes these events to answer the questions they raise about peacekeeping in the Middle East: What advantages are afforded by U.N. peacekeepers compared with non-U.N. missions? What net benefits are derived from American participation in a non-U.N. multinational operation? And how do they compare to the classic U.N. peacekeeping rationale of insulating disputed areas from super power confrontation? Finally, what determines the success of such operations-geopolitical circumstance or institutional affiliation?
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 Peacekeeping in Southern Lebanon written by Marianne Heiberg and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Arab League and Peacekeeping in the Lebanon written by Istvan S. Pogany and published by Gower Publishing Company, Limited. This book was released on 1987 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Peacekeepers written by Dan Harvey and published by Spotlight Poets. This book was released on 2001 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peacekeepers tells the gripping inside story of the extraordinary life of a platoon of Irish soldiers abroad. Set against the controversial background of the withdrawal of the Israeli army following their shocking invasion of Lebanon, in the rollercoster intensity and drama of the dangerous and unpredictable role of the Irish solider as peacekeeper is told here for the first time South Lebanon 1985: a tension-filled time and terrain full of high incident. Ruthless Israeli-backed militia gangs were attempting to extend their control over crucial areas and force the UN peacekeeping force out. Violence, intimidation and threats at gun point kept terrified Shia villagers in fear. Peacekeepers tells the gripping inside story of the extraordinary life of a platoon of Irish soldiers abroad. Set against the controversial background of the withdrawal of the Israeli army following their shocking invasion of Lebanon, in the rollercoster intensity and drama of the dangerous and unpredictable role of the Irish soldier as peacekeeper is revealed for the first time.Written by a soldier who served three tours at this explosive time, the book is a no-holds-barred account of a desperate struggle Ireland has been involved in for the last 23 years.
Download or read book UNIFIL in Lebanon written by Hans Kersten Ado Von Seebach and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 116 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 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 United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon Peacekeeping and Lebanese National Security written by Fawaz Arab and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present Strategy Research Project (SRP) addresses the mandate, operations, and regional strategic effect of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), with a particular focus on the national security of Lebanon. The SRP examines UNIFIL's initial deployment and focuses on its expanded peacekeeping mandate, mission, and operations that took place following the armed conflict between the military wing of Hezbollah and Israeli forces in July-August 2006, and the action of the United Nations Security Council through Resolution 1701. The SRP addresses the collaboration between UNIFIL and the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) in safeguarding the peace along the Lebanese-Israeli border and providing domestic stability in South Lebanon. The SRP also analyzes UNIFIL's presence with respect to the national security interests of various regional state actors. The SRP concludes that the strengthening of the LAF capabilities will provide the necessary political parameters for the eventual withdrawal of UNIFIL from Lebanon.
Download or read book Peace keeping Lebanon written by Ghassān Tuwaynī and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Israel and South Lebanon written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Settlement of the South Lebanon Problem and the Peace Process in the Middle East written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book UN Peacekeeping in Lebanon Somalia and Kosovo written by Dr. Ray Murphy and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the issues associated with contemporary multinational peace operations.
Download or read book In the Service of Peace written by Brendan O'Shea and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In October 2001, Ireland begins its withdrawal from the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), having finally succeeded in implementing UN Security Council Resolution 425 of 1978 and confirming Israeli withdrawal beyond the international border, or what in UN parlance is now referred to simply as the 'Blue Line'. Since 1978, An Cosantoir, the Defence Forces magazine, has chronicled the lives and duties of Irish soldiers through twenty-three years of difficult UN peacekeeping operations in the rocky, barren hills of south Lebanon. This is the story of what Irish soldiers said and did in the Lebanon for twenty-three years. It does not pretend to be a definitive history of their involvement but of necessity every memory recounted is steeped in the history of the region and the savage multi-dimensional war which raged there for a quarter of a century.
