A Future for Peacekeeping?

This study challenges the easy assumption that peacekeeping as we've known it in the past will be the 'pill for every ill' in the future. A 'new world order' means new types of conflict breaking out almost anywhere in a world that is more volatile and less predictable than before. Contributors to this volume argue that we need to get back to basics; that there are sobering lessons to be learnt from Somalia, the Lebanon and Cambodia; that we need to ask some fundamental questions. Can peacekeeping be 'reformed' or must it be totally 'reinvented'? Are soldiers the best peacekeepers and, if not, who should replace them?

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List of Tables - Preface - United Nations Peacekeeping: An Introduction; C.Heje - The Theory of Conflict Resolution and the Practice of Peacekeeping; S.Ryan - Recent Developments in Peacekeeping: The Irish Military Experience; O.Macdonald - India and UN Peacekeeping; A.Bullion - The Perils of Peacekeeping for the US: Relearning Lessons from Beirut for Bosnia; G.Hammond - Learning from the Failure of Disarmament and Conflict Resolution in Somalia; C.Adibe - Voices from Warzones: Implications for Training UN Peacekeepers; B.Fetherston - Gender, Race and the Politics of Peacekeeping; S.Whitworth - A Future for Peacekeeping?; E.Moxon-Browne - Appendix A: United Nations Peacekeeping Operations 1996; C.Heje - Index