Peacekeeping and Peacemaking

Towards Effective Intervention in Post-Cold War Conflicts

By: Tom Woodhouse (Editor), Robert Bruce (Editor), Malcolm Dando (Editor)

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Hardcover | 19 January 1998 | Edition Number 1

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The framers of the UN Charter in 1945 intended the organisation to keep the peace after 1945 not by following the old adage ('if you want peace, prepare for war'), but by applying the proposition that if humanity wanted peace it should build institutions to preserve peace. In practice it has proved to be very difficult to develop the kind of supranational organisation, or the level of international consensus and co-ordination, which the UN would need to have in order to apply this idea. In the light of this the book addresses two general issues. Firstly there is an attempt to understand the changed context of international security in the 1990s when the raging of a number of civil wars have presented the UN with its greatest test. In these wars and their spill over effects the international community has been tested to the extreme in the effort to uphold even the most basic of humanitarian standards. Secondly the book examines the responses taken by the UN to these conflicts. It is organised in three parts. Part one looks at the changed security environment, at patterns of conflict and at the concepts and ideas which have framed policy formation. The second part looks at case studies in the Middle East, Cambodia, Somalia and the former Yugoslavia where intervention has been seen to be inadequate in many respects. The third part offers perspectives from so-called middle powers such as Australia which may be decisive in helping to fashion those international humanitarian values and ethics which are fundamental to generating a capability for more effective intervention in conflict areas.

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