With the best of intentions: lessons from UNOSOM I and II
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A new world order dominated by civil conflicts poses fresh challenges for the future of UN peacekeeping. The bitter experience of the 1992 UN operation in Somalia calls for a reassessment of UN's peacekeeping role to effectively deal with the realities of civil wars. Timely warning systems to facilitate early action and close contact with local agencies will lend strength and efficacy to the peacekeeping force. However, peacekeeping is ill suited to cope with the humanitarian complexities of lengthy civil conflicts. Its potential in functional roles is clearly demonstrated by success in Namibia.
Publication Name: Studies in Conflict and Terrorism
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 1057-610X
Year: 1996
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Preventive peacekeeping, ethnic violence and Macedonia
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The potential of preventive peacekeeping in deterring ethnic violence has been well documented in Macedonia. Fears of Serbian aggression fuelling the volatile ethnic situation in the Balkan, led to the induction of a UN peacekeeping force in Macedonia in 1993. The consent and cooperation of the Macedonian government together with the motivation of the international community contributed to the success of the UN peacekeeping mission. However, the absence of these conditions in Croatia in 1991, obstructed preventive peacekeeping and led to the open escalation of ethnic violence.
Publication Name: Studies in Conflict and Terrorism
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 1057-610X
Year: 1996
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United Nations election supervision in South Africa: lessons from the Namibian peacekeeping experience
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The UN Transition Assistance Group's peackeeping operations in Namibia provides valuable information about how the UN peacekeeping operations in SouthAfrica should conduct itself. The UN experience in Namibia reveals that an adequately size peacekeeping force, which is composed of various nationalities,is essential. This peacekeeping force should strive to maintain its neutrality and should try to develop peaceful means of resolving conflicts.
Publication Name: Studies in Conflict and Terrorism
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 1057-610X
Year: 1993
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