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Author: David R. Segal & Mady Wechsler Segal

David and Mady Segal analyze the adaptation of American soldiers assigned to the Multinational Force and Observers (MFO) in the Sinai Desert in support of the Camp David Accords, in the context of the evolution of mul ...

Author: United Nations University

When the international community responds to a massive humanitarian emergency, such as the one in Liberia, the operation that results is both complicated and ephemeral. The multifaceted nature of the problems in the cris ...

Author: James H. Allan

This study argues, based on the author's firsthand experience with five United Nations peacekeeping missions, that classic peacekeepers in the Cold War era could play a limited but nonetheless useful role in internati ...

Author: Tom Woodhouse & Oliver Ramsbotham

Conflict resolution and peacekeeping are not only closely related conceptually, they were also "inventions" of the same historical period. Peacekeeping was first defined under the Hammarskjold Principles of 1956, while ...

Author: Tom Woodhouse & Oliver Ramsbotham

Conflict resolution and peacekeeping are not only closely related conceptually, they were also "inventions" of the same historical period. Peacekeeping was first defined under the Hammarskjold Principles of 1956, while ...

Author: Ingrid A. Lehmann

Ms Lehmann demonstrates, through case studies of five peacekeeping operations - Namibia, Cambodia, Rwanda, Haiti and Eastern Slavonia - that public information functions, structures and processes are normally ignored in ...

Author: Ingrid A. Lehmann

Ms Lehmann demonstrates, through case studies of five peacekeeping operations - Namibia, Cambodia, Rwanda, Haiti and Eastern Slavonia - that public information functions, structures and processes are normally ignored in ...

Author: Norrie MacQueen

This is a comprehensive, clearly presented and accessible text covering the totality of the peacekeeping experience since the early twentieth century. This is essential reading for all undergraduates on politics, interna ...

Author: Norrie MacQueen

This is a comprehensive, clearly presented and accessible text covering the totality of the peacekeeping experience since the early twentieth century. This is essential reading for all undergraduates on politics, interna ...

Author: Jim Whitman

It is well known that the speed, impact and extent of humanitarian emergencies - many of them militarised - has broadened the compass as well as increased the number of United Nations peacekeeping missions. As 'peace su ...

Author: Karl P. Magyar & Earl Conteh-Morgan

With the departure of the Soviets and Cubans from Southern Africa, South-Saharan Africa no longer comprises a part of the West's core strategic interest. America's experience in Somalia illustrated the folly of addressin ...

Author: Tom Woodhouse & Oliver Ramsbotham

This book provides a comprehensive survey of the current levels of peacekeeping forces at global, regional, sub-regional and nation-state levels. The authors offer a census of peacekeeping capacity in the first decade of ...

Author: Robert M. Cassidy

Military organizations are cultures, and such cultures have ingrained preferences and predilections for how and when to employ force. This is the first study to use a comparative framework to understand what happened ...

Author: Tanenbaum Center For Interreligious Understanding

Across the globe, there are more than 50 armed conflicts, many of which are being perpetrated in the name of religion. In these zones of violence, there are brave men and women who, motivated by their religious beliefs, ...

Author: Hizkias Assefa

In what has become known as Africa's "second liberation", there has been a renewed drive from within for peace and good governance. Church leaders have been key actors in this drive as is evident in their peacemaking ini ...

Author: Olara A. Otunnu, Michael W. Doyle & Nelson Mandela

The UN's record in peace operations is long, various, distinguished by both accomplishments and failures, and most importantly, innovative. Unfulfilled expectations and escalating violence in Somalia, Rwanda, and Bosnia ...

Author: Sasson Sofer

This is an interdisciplinary study of Israeli society in one of the defining moments in the history of Israel. Prominent scholars of Israel's politics and foreign affairs discuss the critical aspects of the political ord ...

Author: Sasson Sofer

This is an interdisciplinary study of Israeli society in one of the defining moments in the history of Israel. Prominent scholars of Israel's politics and foreign affairs discuss the critical aspects of the political ord ...

Author: David Bloomfield

How can scholars develop better co-operation between competing theoretical approaches to conflict management? This study analyses real peacemaking strategies in Northern Ireland from 1969 to the present, including case-s ...

Author: Karen Abi-Ezzi

This new book presents a radical and fascinating critique of the theory and practice of mediation. Using social constructionism and particularly discourse analysis, peacemaking processes in the Israeli-Palestinian confl ...