Understanding Peacekeeping
3rd Edition
Published on 18. December 2020
456 pages
978-0-7456-8675-2 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
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Understanding Peacekeeping
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Paul D. Williams is Professor in the Elliott School of International Affairs at the George Washington University.
Alex J. Bellamy is Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Queensland, and Director of the Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect.
Alex J. Bellamy is Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Queensland, and Director of the Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect.
Content
List of Figures
List of Maps
List of Boxes
List of Tables
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Concepts and Issues
1. Peace Operations in Global Politics
2. Who Deploys Peace Operations?
Part II: Historical Development
3. Peace Operations during the Cold War
4. Peace Operations during the 1990s
5. Peace Operations in the Twenty-First Century
Part III: The Purposes of Peace Operations
6. Prevention
7. Observation
8. Assistance
9. Enforcement
10. Stabilisation
11. Administration
Part IV: Contemporary Challenges
12. Force Generation
13. Regionalization
14. Privatization
15. Use of Force
16. Civilian Protection
17. Gender
18. Policing
19. Organized Crime
20. Exit
Appendix
References
Index
List of Maps
List of Boxes
List of Tables
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Concepts and Issues
1. Peace Operations in Global Politics
2. Who Deploys Peace Operations?
Part II: Historical Development
3. Peace Operations during the Cold War
4. Peace Operations during the 1990s
5. Peace Operations in the Twenty-First Century
Part III: The Purposes of Peace Operations
6. Prevention
7. Observation
8. Assistance
9. Enforcement
10. Stabilisation
11. Administration
Part IV: Contemporary Challenges
12. Force Generation
13. Regionalization
14. Privatization
15. Use of Force
16. Civilian Protection
17. Gender
18. Policing
19. Organized Crime
20. Exit
Appendix
References
Index
Abbreviations
- ADF
- Allied Democratic Forces (Uganda)
- AFP
- Australian Federal Police
- AFISMA
- African-led International Support Mission to Mali
- AMIB
- African Union Mission in Burundi
- AMIS
- African Union Mission in the Sudan
- AMISEC
- African Union Mission in the Comoros
- AMISOM
- African Union Mission in Somalia
- ANSP
- National Academy for Public Security (El Salvador)
- APC
- armoured personnel carrier
- AQIM
- al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
- ASEAN
- Association of Southeast Asian Nations
- ASF
- African Standby Force
- ASIFU
- All Sources Information Fusion Unit (MINUSMA)
- AU
- African Union
- AusAID
- Australian Agency for International Development
- C34
- UN Special Committee on Peacekeeping
- CAR
- Central African Republic
- CIS
- Commonwealth of Independent States
- CIVPOL
- civilian police
- CNN
- Cable News Network
- CPA
- Comprehensive Peace Agreement (Sudan)
- CPP
- Cambodian People's Party (PRK)
- DDR
- disarmament, demobilization, reintegration
- DFID
- Department for International Development (UK)
- DFS
- UN Department of Field Support
- DOMREP
- Mission of the Representative of the Secretary-General in the Dominican Republic
- DPKO
- UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations
- DPO
- UN Department of Peace Operations
- DPPA
- UN Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs
- DRC
- Democratic Republic of Congo
- DSL
- Defence Systems Limited
- ECCAS
- Economic Community of Central African States
- ECOMIB
- ECOWAS Mission in Guinea-Bissau
- ECOMICI
- ECOWAS Mission in Côte d'Ivoire
- ECOMIG
- ECOWAS Mission in The Gambia
- ECOMIL
- ECOWAS Mission in Liberia
- ECOMOG
- Military Observer Group of the Economic Community of West African States
- ECOWAS
- Economic Community of West African States
- EISAS
- Executive Committee on Peace and Security Information and Strategic Analysis Secretariat
- EO
- Executive Outcomes
- EU
- European Union
- EUFOR
- European Union force
- EUFOR RD
- European Union Reserve Deployment
- EUPM
- European Union Policing Mission
- EUTM
- European Union Training Mission
- FARDC
- Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- FDLR
- Forces Démocratiques de Libération du Rwanda
- FIB
- Force Intervention Brigade (MONUSCO)
- FMLN
- Frente Farabundo Marti para la Liberacion Nacional (El Salvador)
- FNI
- Nationalist and Integrationist Front (DRC)
- FOMUC
- CEMAC Mission in Central African Republic
- FPU
- formed police unit
- FUNCINPEC
- National United Front for an Independent, Neutral, Peaceful and Cooperative Cambodia
- FYROM
- Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
- G5 Sahel
- Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger
- GPSP
- Global Peace and Security Partnership
- HIPPO
- High Level Independent Panel on Peace Operations (2015)
- ICC
- International Criminal Court
- ICGLR
- International Conference on the Great Lakes Region
- ICRC
- International Committee of the Red Cross
- ICTY
- International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
- ICU
- Islamic Courts Union (Somalia)
- IDG
- International Deployment Group (Australian Federal Police)
- IDPs
- internally displaced persons
- IED
- improvised explosive device
- IEMF
- Interim Emergency Multinational Force (DRC)
- IFM
- Isatabu Freedom Movement (Solomon Islands)
- IFOR
- Implementation Force (NATO-led)
- IGAD
- Intergovernmental Authority on Development
- IHL
- international humanitarian law
- IMF
- International Monetary Fund
- IMT
- International Monitoring Team (Mindanao)
- IMTF
- Integrated Mission Task Force
- INTERFET
- International Force in East Timor
- IPMT
- International Peace Monitoring Team (Solomon Islands)
- IPO
- individual police officer
- IPOA
- International Peace Operations Association
- IPTF
- International Police Task Force
- ISAF
- International Security Assistance Force (Afghanistan)
- ISF
- International Stabilization Force
- ISOA
- International Stability Operations Association
- JMAC
- Joint Mission Analysis Cell
- KFOR
- Kosovo Force
- KLA
- Kosovo Liberation Army
- KPC
- Kosovo Protection Corps
- KPS
- Kosovo Police Service
- LAS
- League of Arab States
- LDK
- Democratic League of Kosovo
- LTTE
- Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (Sri Lanka)
- MAES
- African Union Electoral and Security Assistance Mission (Comoros)
- MEF
- Malaita Eagle Force (Solomon Islands)
- MFO
- multinational force observers
- MICEMA
- ECOWAS Mission in Mali
- MICOPAX
- ECCAS Mission for the Consolidation of Peace in Central African Republic
- MINUCI
- United Nations Mission in Côte d'Ivoire
- MINUGUA
- United Nations Verification Mission in Guatemala
- MINURCA
- United Nations Mission in the Central African Republic
- MINURCAT
- United Nations Mission in the Central African Republic and Chad
- MINURSO
- United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara
- MINUSAL
- Mission of the United Nations in El Salvador
- MINUSCA
- United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Central African Republic
- MINUSMA
- United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali
- MINUSTAH
- United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti
- MIPONUH
- United Nations Civilian Police Mission in Haiti
- MISAB
- Inter-African Mission to Monitor the Implementation of the Bangui Agreements
- MISCA
- African Union Mission in the Central African Republic
- MNF
- multinational force
- MNLA
- National Movement for the Liberation of the Azawad
- MONUA
- United Nations Observer Mission in Angola
- MONUC
- United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo
- MONUSCO
- United Nations Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo
- MOU
- memorandum of understanding
- MPRI
- Military Professional Resources Incorporated
- MUJAO
- Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa
- NAM
- Non-Aligned Movement
- NATO
- North Atlantic Treaty Organization
- NGO
- non-governmental organization
- NLA
- National Liberation Army (Macedonia)
- NPFL
- National Patriotic Front of Liberia
- OAS
- Organization of American States
- OAU
- Organisation of African Unity
- OCHA
- UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
- OLMEE
- OAU Liaison Mission in Ethiopia/Eritrea
- ONUB
- United Nations Operation in Burundi
- ONUC
- United Nations Operation in the Congo
- ONUCA
- United Nations Observer Group in Central America United Nations Operation in Mozambique
- ONUMOZ
- United Nations Operation in Mozambique
- ONUSAL
- United Nations Observer Mission in El Salvador
- ONUVEN
- United Nations Observer Mission for Verification of the Elections in Nicaragua
- OROLSI
- UN Office of Rule of Law and Security Institutions
- OSCE
- Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
- P5
- Permanent Members of the UN Security Council (Britain, China, France, Russian Federation, United States)
- PAE
- Pacific Architects and Engineers
- PCC
- police-contributing country
- PCRS
- UN Peacekeeping Capability Readiness System
- PDK
- Party of Democratic Kampuchea (Khmer Rouge)
- PIF
- Pacific Islands Forum
- PLO
- Palestine Liberation Organization
- POC
- protection of civilians
- PRK
- People's Republic of Kampuchea
- PRTs
- Provincial Reconstruction Teams (Afghanistan)
- PSC
- Peace and Security Council; private security company
- QIP
- quick impact project
- RAMSI
- Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands
- RDHQ
- rapidly deployable headquarters
- RECAMP
- Renforcement des capacités africaines de maintien de la paix
- ROTC
- Reserve Officer Training Corps
- RPF
- Rwandan Patriotic...
