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Book Peacekeeping in Transition

Download or read book Peacekeeping in Transition written by Janet Elaine Heininger and published by Twentieth Century Foundation. This book was released on 1994 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this document, Janet E. Heininger's study is one of the first to assess the experience of the UN and peacekeeping missions abroad and provides an in-depth analysis of the Cambodian case study to helps us understand the extent and nature of the United Nations successes and shortcomings.

Book Harnessing Post conflict Transitions

Download or read book Harnessing Post conflict Transitions written by Nicholas J. Armstrong and published by Strategic Studies Institute. This book was released on 2010 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph addresses the challenging topic of transition in post-conflict stability operations and is intended for a wide audience that includes military and civilian policymakers, international development experts, and scholars in academe. It is a primer, systematic review, and comprehensive assessment of the fields of research and practice. It presents and appraises the major lenses (process, authority transfer, phasing, and end state), categories (war-to-peace, power, societal, political-democratic, security, and economic), approaches, and tools under which post-conflict transitions are conceived. It lays the groundwork for both future research and greater collaboration among diverse international and local actors who operate in post-conflict environments, to develop a comprehensive definition of transition and adequate tools to address all facets of the concept. It provides recommendations for future research and improved transition policy, which include: cross-institutional (political, security, economic) and multi-level (local, regional, national) studies that explore the interdependencies between simultaneous transitions ; underlying assumptions of current transition tools and indicators ; relationships between transition and institutional resilience ; and, thresholds and tipping points between transition phases.

Book Framing the State in Times of Transition

Download or read book Framing the State in Times of Transition written by Laurel E. Miller and published by US Institute of Peace Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 737 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzing nineteen cases, this title offers practical perspective on the implications of constitution-making procedure, and explores emerging international legal norms.

Book UN Peacekeeping in Civil Wars

Download or read book UN Peacekeeping in Civil Wars written by Lise Morjé Howard and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth 2007 analysis of the sources of success and failure in UN peacekeeping missions in civil wars.

Book DDR and SSR in War to Peace Transition

Download or read book DDR and SSR in War to Peace Transition written by Christopher von Dyck and published by Ubiquity Press. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) and security sector reform (SSR) have become integral statebuilding tools in post-conflict states, the existing empirical literature examining their relationship has focused on supply-side considerations related to the programming of both processes. In practice, though, DDR and SSR are implemented in the wider context of war-to-peace transitions where the state is attempting to establish a monopoly over the use of force and legitimize itself in the eyes of domestic and international communities. This paper therefore assumes that to identify opportunities and constraints for establishing closer practical linkages between DDR and SSR it is important to take the local politics into consideration. It examines two past externally driven peacebuilding interventions in West Africa, namely Liberia and Sierra Leone, featuring cases in which the central state had essentially fragmented or collapsed. Through this comparative analysis, the paper aims to provide a stepping-stone for future studies examining demand-side considerations of DDR and SSR in post-conflict contexts.

Book The United Nations in Transition

Download or read book The United Nations in Transition written by United States. Department of State. Office of Media Services and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book  Transitions  from Peacekeeping to Peacebuilding

Download or read book Transitions from Peacekeeping to Peacebuilding written by Ameerah Haq and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this paper, representing the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations, I share recent experiences from Timor-Leste where I serve as Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon's Special Representative.Today's topic, transitions, is a timely one. In its history of over more than 60 years, peacekeeping has gone through a series of surges and periods of consolidation. Following the most recent surge of new peacekeeping missions in the early 2000s, we expect the next few years to represent a period of consolidation and drawdown. Our mission in Chad will close at the end of December; in Timor-Leste and Liberia, transition planning is already underway, in others like Cote d'Ivoire, it is a little further on the horizon. In all transitions, we have to manage the departure of peacekeeping missions in a way that helps consolidate and build peace. The topic is also timely as UN Member States are in the midst of important policy debates in the Security Council as well as the 4th and 5th Committees of the General Assembly, on the interface between peacekeeping and peacebuilding, the role of the Peacebuilding Commission and the Security Council, and on allocation of resources across multiple instruments like peacekeeping operations or special political missions, and development assistance. Thoughts about the role of these instruments are evolving and there is some way to go to make sure they all work together effectively.

Book International Law in the Transition to Peace

Download or read book International Law in the Transition to Peace written by Carina Lamont and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-14 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book proposes a normative framework specifically designed for the complex and legally uncertain time period between armed conflicts and peace. As such, it contributes both to the furthering of a jus post bellum framework, and to enhanced legal clarity in complex and legally uncertain environments. This, in turn, contributes to strengthened protection engagements, and thus to improved prospects of enabling sustainable peace and security in both national and international perspectives. The book offers a novel but persuasive argument for a legal framework specific for transitional environments. Such legal framework, it is argued, is warranted in order to enable legal clarity to contemporary and outstanding legal issues, as well as to furthering peace efforts in complex environments. The legal framework suggested proposes a dividing line between applicable legal frameworks that, it is submitted, enhances both legal clarity on protection engagements and the quest for sustainable peace. The framework proposed is founded on a legal analysis of the protective nature and function of law. It thus provides a rare but important perspective on law that is of value in the quest for sustainable peace and security. The research draws uniquely on both contemporary legal debates, and on peace and conflict research. It does so in order to enable legal analysis that is both legally sound, as well as appropriate and adequate in today’s peace and security realities. The book provides a valuable resource for academics, researchers and policy-makers in the areas of Public International Law, International Humanitarian Law, International Human Rights Law, (the law of) Peace Operations, and Peace and Security Studies.

Book A Transition from Un Peacekeeping to Peacebuilding

Download or read book A Transition from Un Peacekeeping to Peacebuilding written by Aamir Hakeem and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2012-05 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the collapse of communism, UN interventions were restricted to the inter-state conflicts. Since then UN has been involved to resolve the intra-state conflicts and the mandate of the missions has enhanced accordingly to ensure the law and order, supervising elections and institutional building of the states. This research examines the UN responsiveness to post cold war conflicts and the transition of its operations from peacekeeping to peacebuilding. The study further finds out the correlation among the different aspects of the peacebuilding and the emerging role of UN Police and problems in this regard. It also takes into account whether the police reforms can be achieved without an effective and independent judicial system keeping in view the ground realities and the mandate of the missions assigned by the Security Council. The study is partially descriptive and partially analytical. The descriptive informs on the needs created in the post cold war scenario, UN response to it and the muddled process of policy and doctrine development. Case studies of seven UN interventions involving the CIVPOL personnel have been analyzed in the light of the mandate of the Missions.

Book Measures of Effectiveness  The Transition from Peace Enforcement to Peacekeeping

Download or read book Measures of Effectiveness The Transition from Peace Enforcement to Peacekeeping written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peace operations are assuming an increasingly visible and important role as an instrument of international diplomacy and national policy. The transition between two types of peace operations, peace-enforcement and peacekeeping, represents an operational shift that has strategic implications. Anticipating the optimum point at which to make this transition presents the regional CINC with a significant operational challenge. A potential approach to developing reliable measures of effectiveness with which the CINC can assess operational progress and anticipate this transition is to link them to broad, enduring concepts such as the variables of peace operations (force, consent, and impartiality), the six principles of miLitary operations other than war (objective, restraint, legitimacy, unity of effort, security1 and perseverance), and selected operational concepts (center of gravity and culminating point of attack). The 1965 U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic included a successful transition from peace-enforcement to peacekeeping. Although formal peace operations doctrine was relatively immature, attention to the aforementioned broad, enduring concepts proved effective during the operation and provided a useful focus for developing measures of effectiveness with which to assess operational progress and anticipate the operational shift from peace-enforcement to peacekeeping. (KAR) P. 1.

Book U n  Peacekeeping

    Book Details:
  • Author : United States Government Accountability Office
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2017-10-21
  • ISBN : 9781978467712
  • Pages : 64 pages

Download or read book U n Peacekeeping written by United States Government Accountability Office and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-10-21 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: U.N. Peacekeeping: Transition Strategies for Post-Conflict Countries Lack Results-Oriented Measures of Progress

Book Peacekeeping in Africa

    Book Details:
  • Author : Oliver Furley
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2021-05-11
  • ISBN : 1000347540
  • Pages : 290 pages

Download or read book Peacekeeping in Africa written by Oliver Furley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1998, Peacekeeping in Africa was written to help make up the shortfall in the number of books that concentrated specifically on peacekeeping in Africa. The book covers the main peacekeeping operations of Africa, and provides a wealth of background material. In doing so, it explores the policies and actions of the international organisations concerned and the participating African states. It also considers the impact of sub-regional powers and the role of the USA, Britain, and France. Comprising three parts, Peacekeeping in Africa examines world perspectives, case studies, and wider issues surrounding Africa’s peacekeeping operations.

Book Transition from Peacekeeping to Peacebuilding  Training Education Implications

Download or read book Transition from Peacekeeping to Peacebuilding Training Education Implications written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis argues that the current peace operations training and education process is inadequate because it fails to incorporate peacebuilding, defined as: providing a secure environment that allows economic, political, humanitarian, and social development, which are the conditions necessary for the establishment of a self-sustaining, lasting peace. Absent the training for and conduct of peacebuilding operations (PBO), the military cannot withdraw from an area of operations because the conditions necessary for self-sustaining, lasting peace will not have been established, only conditions that prevent the re-emergence of violence. PBO take place during the period in which the former warring factions and society institutionalize or consolidate peace. Although force may be necessary at times to control violence, the military must rely on other methods and skills in order to continue the peace process towards the eventual objective of a self-sustaining, lasting peace. Leaders and soldiers must be educated and trained in these other methods and provided the tools to determine when to employ these methods and when to use force to achieve missions objectives. This thesis will examine the missions the military may be asked to perform, and the kinds of training and education necessary to prepare the military for these missions.

Book Understanding Peacekeeping

Download or read book Understanding Peacekeeping written by Paul D. Williams and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-12-18 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peace operations remain a principal tool for managing armed conflict and protecting civilians. The fully revised, expanded and updated third edition of Understanding Peacekeeping provides a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the theory, history, and politics of peace operations. Drawing on a dataset of nearly two hundred historical and contemporary missions, this book evaluates the changing characteristics of the contemporary international environment in which peace operations are deployed, the strategic purposes peace operations are intended to achieve, and the major challenges facing today’s peacekeepers. All the chapters have been revised and updated, and five new chapters have been added – on stabilization, organized crime, exit strategies, force generation, and the use of force. Part 1 summarizes the central concepts and issues related to peace operations. Part 2 charts the historical development of peacekeeping, from 1945 through to 2020. Part 3 analyses the strategic purposes that United Nations and other peace operations are intended to achieve – namely, prevention, observation, assistance, enforcement, stabilization, and administration. Part 4 looks forward and examines the central challenges facing today’s peacekeepers: force generation, the regionalization and privatization of peace operations, the use of force, civilian protection, gender issues, policing and organized crime, and exit strategies.

Book Transition from Peacekeeping to Peacebuilding

Download or read book Transition from Peacekeeping to Peacebuilding written by Ralph F. Hedenberg and published by . This book was released on 2000-12-01 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis argues that the current peace operations training and education process is inadequate because it fails to incorporate peacebuilding, defined as: providing a secure environment that allows economic, political, humanitarian, and social development, which are the conditions necessary for the establishment of a self-sustaining, lasting peace. Absent the training for and conduct of peacebuilding operations (PBO), the military cannot withdraw from an area of operations because the conditions necessary for self-sustaining, lasting peace will not have been established, only conditions that prevent the re- emergence of violence. PBO take place during the period in which the former warring factions and society institutionalize or consolidate peace. Although force may be necessary at times to control violence, the military must rely on other methods and skills in order to continue the peace process towards the eventual objective of a self-sustaining, lasting peace. Leaders and soldiers must be educated and trained in these other methods and provided the tools to determine when to employ these methods and when to use force to achieve missions objectives. This thesis will examine the missions the military may be asked to perform, and the kinds of training and education necessary to prepare the military for these missions.