Peacekeeping in Civil Wars

Name: Peacekeeping in Civil Wars
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ISBN: 9780521707671

ISBN-10: 0521707676

ISBN-13: 9780521707671

Edition: 2007

Authors: Lise Morjï¿½ Howard

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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 Morj 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…

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List price: $41.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 11/29/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 418
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English

Lise Morjï¿½ Howard is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Government at Georgetown University and Director of the M.A. Program in Conflict Resolution.



List of tables and appendices


List of acronyms


Acknowledgments



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


Appendices


Bibliography


Index