UN peacekeeping in civil wars / Lise Morjé Howard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Howard, Lise Morjé.

Contributor:

Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United Nations--Peacekeeping forces.

United Nations.

Peacekeeping forces.

Intervention (International law).

Civil war--Protection of civilians.

Civil war.

Physical Description:

xiii, 402 pages ; 23 cm

Other Title:

United Nations peacekeeping in civil wars

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Summary:

Civil wars pose some of the most difficult problems in the world today and the United Nations is the organization generally called upon to bring and sustain peace. Lise Morjé Howard studies the sources of success and failure in UN peacekeeping. Her in-depth analysis of some of the most complex UN peacekeeping missions debunks the conventional wisdom that they habitually fail, showing that the UN record actually includes a number of important, though understudied, success stories. Using systematic comparative analysis, Howard argues that UN peacekeeping succeeds when field missions establish significant autonomy from UN headquarters, allowing civilian and military staff to adjust to the post-civil war environment. In contrast, failure frequently results from operational directives originating in UN headquarters, often devised in relation to higher-level political disputes with little relevance to the civil war in question. Howard recommends future reforms be oriented toward devolving decision-making power to the field missions.--Publisher description.

Contents:

Introduction : success, failure, and organizational learning in UN peacekeeping

The failures : Somalia, Rwanda, Angola, Bosnia

Namibia : the first major success

El Salvador : centrally propelled learning

Cambodia : organizational dysfunction, partial learning, and mixed success

Mozambique : learning to create consent

Eastern Slavonia : institution-building and the limited use of force

East Timor : the UN as state

The ongoing multidimensional peacekeeping operations

Conclusion : two levels of organizational learning

Appendix I. Multidimensionality of mandates of all post-Cold War UN peacekeeping operations in civil wars

Appendix II. Questions for structured-focused comparisons

Appendix III. Situational difficulty before the start of the UN peacekeeping operation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9780521881388

0521881382

9780521707671

0521707676

9786611156251

6611156259

OCLC:

154706354

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