UN Peacekeeping in Civil Wars

An in-depth analysis of the sources of success and failure in UN peacekeeping missions in civil wars.

Auteur

Lise Morjé Howard is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Government at Georgetown University and Director of the M.A. Program in Conflict Resolution.

Résumé
What determines success and failure in UN peacekeeping in civil wars? Debunking the conventional wisdom that they habitually fail, in this 2007 book Lise Morje Howard shows that the UN's record includes a number of important successful cases, where field missions have established autonomy from UN headquarters.

Contenu

1. Introduction; 2. The failures: Somalia, Rwanda, Angola, Bosnia; 3. Namibia: the first major success; 4. El Salvador: centrally-propelled learning; 5. Cambodia: organizational dysfunction, partial learning and mixed success; 6. Mozambique: learning to create consent; 7. Eastern Slavonia: institution-building and the limited use of force; 8. East Timor: the UN as state; 9. The ongoing multidimensional operations; 10. Conclusion: two levels of organizational learning.