Soldiers In Peacemaking

Author : Beatrice de Graaf,Frédéric Dessberg,Thomas Vaisset
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781350345027

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What is the role of a soldier at the end of war, when either victory or defeat is inevitable? This book delves into that question, exploring how the military and soldiers on the ground have contributed to the transition to peace. With case studies from 1800 to the present day, Soldiers in Peace-making offers a historical overview of the part military men and women have played in the aftermath of war. From UN peacekeeping in Cambodia to military observers in former Yugoslavia, the post-Cold War US Army and more, the essays in this collection map the strategy, politics and practicalities involved in the transition from war to postwar. Analyzing the legitimacy of each 'peace' and the military's approach to them, the chapters explore how soldiers have engaged with politics and political leaders, interacted with civil populations, and called upon their own expertise to enable the peace-making process. In exploring the hybrid role of military men and women as diplomats, peacemakers, negotiators and fighters this book reveals the crucial part they have played as conflicts come to a close.

Author : Barbara Benton
Publisher : Facts on File
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Law
ISBN : 0816035091

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Soldiers for Peace by Barbara Benton Pdf

The United Nations' 50th anniversary in 1995 prompted the world to reflect on how peacekeeping has changed over the decades. Soldiers for Peace, an anthology of thirteen essays by journalists, peacekeepers, and military historians - often in provocative disagreement with one another - provides a substantive, objective overview for buffs, students, and general readers - anyone who wants to get smart fast about this vital subject. Essays include a history of peacekeeping and its antecedents; a concise analysis of operations since 1948; an interview with Sir Brian Urquhart, the man most involved with the development of the peacekeeping concept; eyewitness accounts of missions in Cyprus, the Congo, the Middle East, Cambodia, Haiti, Somalia, and the former Yugoslavia; the special training of peacekeeping soldiers, who must face a range of potentially explosive situations; lessons on tactics and the divisive issue of command and control; consideration of public attitude and the American soldier; and the special frustrations of humanitarian-relief operations. Complementing each essay are evocative black-and-white photographs from United Nations archives and various news sources, and specially drawn maps that allow readers to locate various peacekeeping operations discussed in the text. A guide to U.N. acronyms and a gazetteer of operations provide quick reference to all peacekeeping missions since 1948. With a preface by United Nations Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Soldiers for Peace is a revealing examination of all aspects of peacekeeping, its successes and failures past and present, and its prospects for the future. This engrossing chronicle is written from an historical perspective that sheds light on the ever-evolving goals of the U.N. as it struggles for balance in peacemaking, peacekeeping, peace-enforcement, and peace-building throughout the world today. Soldiers for Peace is a must-read for all.

Author : Beatrice de Graaf,Frédéric Dessberg,Thomas Vaisset
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781350345034

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Soldiers in Peacemaking by Beatrice de Graaf,Frédéric Dessberg,Thomas Vaisset Pdf

What is the role of a soldier at the end of war, when either victory or defeat is inevitable? This book delves into that question, exploring how the military and soldiers on the ground have contributed to the transition to peace. With case studies from 1800 to the present day, Soldiers in Peace-making offers a historical overview of the part military men and women have played in the aftermath of war. From UN peacekeeping in Cambodia to military observers in former Yugoslavia, the post-Cold War US Army and more, the essays in this collection map the strategy, politics and practicalities involved in the transition from war to postwar. Analyzing the legitimacy of each 'peace' and the military's approach to them, the chapters explore how soldiers have engaged with politics and political leaders, interacted with civil populations, and called upon their own expertise to enable the peace-making process. In exploring the hybrid role of military men and women as diplomats, peacemakers, negotiators and fighters this book reveals the crucial part they have played as conflicts come to a close.

Author : Lynn Etheridge Davis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Civil war
ISBN : UCSD:31822016707127

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Peacekeeping and Peacemaking After the Cold War by Lynn Etheridge Davis Pdf

This report addresses the challenges of peacekeeping and peacemaking after the Cold War, looking first at recent efforts to keep the peace and then suggesting a multifaceted approach for the future. It looks at operations in which the international community successfully cooperated--such as in Iraq, and less successfully so--such as in Cambodia and the western Sahara. It points out that bringing peace to post-Cold War conflicts will require the international community to take a role in helping build nations and, in the process, carry out such additional activities as monitoring human rights, demobilizing armies, providing administrative services, and setting up democratic institutions.

Author : Fariborz Levaye Mokhtari
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : International police
ISBN : OSU:32435072485352

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Peacemaking, Peacekeeping, and Coalition Warfare by Fariborz Levaye Mokhtari Pdf

Author : D. Jett
Publisher : Springer
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2000-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780312292744

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Why Peacekeeping Fails by D. Jett Pdf

Dennis C. Jett examines why peacekeeping operations fail by comparing the unsuccessful attempt at peacekeeping in Angola with the successful effort in Mozambique, alongside a wide range of other peacekeeping experiences. The book argues that while the causes of past peacekeeping failures can be identified, the chances for success will be difficult to improve because of the way such operations are initiated and conducted, and the way the United Nations operates as an organization. Jett reviews the history of peacekeeping and the evolution in the number, size, scope, and cost of peacekeeping missions. He also explains why peacekeeping has become more necessary, possible, and desired and yet, at the same time, more complex, more difficult, and less frequently used. The book takes a hard look at the UN's actions and provides useful information for understanding current conflicts.

Author : Fariborz L. Mokhtari
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : International police
ISBN : NYPL:33433080383213

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Peacemaking, Peacekeeping and Coalition Warfare by Fariborz L. Mokhtari Pdf

Author : Leon Gordenker,Thomas G. Weiss
Publisher : Springer
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349217670

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Soldiers, Peacekeepers and Disasters by Leon Gordenker,Thomas G. Weiss Pdf

The volume examines the past and potential role played by both UN peacekeepers as well as other military forces in the provision of humanitarian aid. There is also an in-depth discussion of the 'downside' or possible dilemmas of resorting to military capacities as well as a case-study of the recent international response in the Sudan with a view toward breaking new ground in the delivery of humanitarian relief in countries torn by civil war.

Author : Ruth H. Phelps
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCR:31210011110945

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Reserve Component Soldiers as Peacekeepers by Ruth H. Phelps Pdf

Author : David Curran
Publisher : Springer
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319463056

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More than Fighting for Peace? by David Curran Pdf

This book provides a contemporary account of the linkages between the academic field of conflict resolution and the practice of military peacekeeping, through the lens of pre-deployment training for military personnel about to embark on UN peacekeeping operations. Military personnel serving on United Nations peacekeeping operations are deployed into highly challenging post-conflict environments, where the likelihood of violence remains high. Moreover, these personnel are deployed part of a wider peace process, and are thus situated as an anchor point in a transition from war to peace. This dimension of their work therefore means that a range of skills and techniques are relied upon, which come not from traditional military training, but from other, non-traditional fields. It is into this gap where the academic field of conflict resolution has made a valuable contribution to understanding international peacekeeping. Since the 1970’s, studies have sought to understand international peacekeeping as a necessary stage in conflict de-escalation, and ultimately transformation. From this, there is a history of engagement including studies which seek to understand the skills peacekeepers may need to assist them in their day to day activities, and the role that international peacekeeping plays in wider projects of conflict transformation.

Author : Tony Pfaff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Armed Forces
ISBN : UVA:X004493046

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Peacekeeping and the Just War Tradition by Tony Pfaff Pdf

Major Tony Pfaff, a former Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the United States Military Academy, addresses an important source of much of the confusion that currently surrounds many of the Operations Other Than War (OOTW) that the military finds itself participating in with increasing frequency. The author points out that, though the source of this confusion is primarily ethical, it has important operational implications as well. In the Just War Tradition, as well as the Law of War, there has always been a tension between winning and fighting well, and the peacekeeping environment does not change this. Commonly, the resolution of this tension is expressed in the maxim: always use the least amount of force necessary to achieve the military objective. This maxim applies, regardless of what environment one is in. The author's contention is, however, that the understanding of necessary is radically different in the peacekeeping environment than it is in more conventional operations. Failure to understand this results in a great deal of confusion as soldiers try to apply an ethic designed for dealing with enemies in environments where there are none.

Author : Donald M. Snow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Political Science
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU72351730

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Peacekeeping, Peacemaking and Peace-enforcement by Donald M. Snow Pdf

The search for the appropriate uses of military force in the post-cold war international system has commenced. During the cold war, the use of force by the major powers was tied clearly to their political and ideological competition; deterrence of major conflicts between them served the most fundamental national interest, survival. Vital interests revolved around preventing the other side from gaining undue influences in important places such as the Persian Gulf. The post-cold war system is not so simple. The order and predictability of the cold war system have been replaced by the disorder, even chaos, of the new order, what one observer has called "the old world disorder in new configurations."1 East-West competition has evaporated and can no longer form the anchor that tethers policy and strategy together. As Leslie H. Gelb noted recently, the "old hawk-dove divide"2 no longer serves to inform where military action will and will not occur. No alternative structure has taken its place. We are left instead with vague entreaties that forces must serve the national interest, and apparently innocuous but potentially precedential and systemically upsetting notions of the "humanitarian use of force"3 and "humanitarian intervention,"4 to mention two recent designations. Lacking a framework of where and when to use force to provide guidance for "a more anarchical and competitive world order,"5 both the United States and the world at large are forced to consider situations on a case-by-case basis where the criteria for evaluation are often vague. On a piecemeal basis, the United States has mounted a post-Gulf War operation in Iraq (Operation PROVIDE COMFORT/SOUTHERN WATCH) and in Somalia (RESTORE HOPE), leading General Powell to conclude: "Peacekeeping and humanitarian operations are a given."6 What--if anything--should be done about ethno-religious fighting in Bosnia or Nagorno Karabakh? How much do we care about the Tamils in Sri Lanka? What patterns, if any, are emerging?

Author : Gary Uzonyi
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781626167742

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Finding Soldiers of Peace by Gary Uzonyi Pdf

The United Nations, which lacks its own peacekeeping force, faces three dilemmas when organizing a peacekeeping mission: convincing member states to contribute troops, persuading states to deploy troops quickly, and securing a troop commitment long enough to achieve success. The key to overcoming these challenges, Gary Uzonyi argues, is emphasizing the connection between peacekeeping and slowing the flow of refugees across borders. Finding Soldiers of Peace makes the case for this approach, which balances states’ self-interests with the United Nations’ goal of civilian protection. Through an analysis of post–Cold War UN peacekeeping missions, particularly interventions in Mali and Sudan, Uzonyi shows how member states often tie civilian protection rhetoric to efforts to keep conflict-driven refugees from crossing into their territory. Conventional wisdom holds that member states primarily engage in peacekeeping for payment or humanitarian reasons. Uzonyi proves otherwise, helping scholars and practitioners more accurately predict which member states are most likely to send support, where states may send assistance, when they might become involved, the size of their contribution, and their timetable for leaving. His research promotes practical strategies for the organization and execution of future missions that ensure member states stay invested in the outcome. A data-rich exploration of the UN response to humanitarian crises, Finding Soldiers of Peace shows how policymakers and practitioners can better strategize the execution of UN peacekeeping missions among diverse, and even contentious, stakeholders.

Author : Larry L. Fabian
Publisher : Washington : Brookings Institution
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015012870492

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Soldiers Without Enemies by Larry L. Fabian Pdf

Monograph tracing the evolution of the peace-keeping concept in the UN and the role of UN in international peace-keeping operations - examines the functions of the League of Nations, covers the leadership of the 3 UN secretaries-general, government policies in respect of the military engagement of UN armed forces, the development of 'preparedness diplomacy', etc. Bibliography pp. 269 and 270 and references.

Author : Fariborz L. Mokhtari
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Security, International
ISBN : UCR:31210024770073

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Peacemaking, Peacekeeping and Coalition Warfare by Fariborz L. Mokhtari Pdf