Keeping Watch : Monitoring Technology and Innovation in UN Peace Operations / A. Walter Dorn.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Walter Dorn, A., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human Rights and Refugees.

Local Subjects:

Human Rights and Refugees.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (302 pages)

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : United Nations, 2013.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Knowledge is power. In the hands of United Nations peacekeepers, it can be a power for peace. Lacking knowledge, peacekeepers often find themselves powerless in the field, unable to protect themselves and others. This book explains how technologies can increase the range, effectiveness and accuracy of United Nations observation. It also identifies potential problems and pitfalls with modern technologies and the challenges to incorporate them into the United Nations system. It examines the few cases of technologies effectively harnessed in the field and offers creative recommendations to overcome the institutional inertia and widespread misunderstandings about how technology can complement human initiative in the quest for peace in war-torn lands.

Contents:

Abbreviations

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Technology for peace

The evolution of peace operations

Monitoring: The constant need

Survey of monitoring technologies

Aerial surveillance: Eyes in the sky

Traditional peacekeeping: Cases

Multidimensional peace operations: Cases

Current UN standards: Starting from near zero

Challenges and problems

Recommendations

Conclusions

United Nations peacekeeping operations, 1948-2010, organized into four categories: Observer missions; Interposed forces; Multidimensional operations; Transitional administrations

Special committee on peacekeeping (C34) annual reports: Excerpts on monitoring and surveillance technology

Possible sensing technologies for peacekeeping, categorized by type of signal detected

Summary of the benefits of various monitoring technologies

Summary of current and potential monitoring technologies in UN peacekeeping

Unattended ground sensors: Summary of a survey

Bibliography on monitoring technology for UN operations

References.

ISBN:

9789210563390

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