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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"peace operations"”.
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Creating global synergies: inter-organizational cooperation in peace operations
Most peace operations (60%), deployed from 1978 to 2009 by international organizations (IOs), were deployed in conflicts in which other international organizations’ peace operations were active at the same time. Multiple simultaneous peace operations increased from around 10% of all peace …
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Protecting Civilians in UN Peace Operations: The Need for Enhanced Training
… implemented in multiple United Nations (UN) peace operations have not always been executed as intended and, as a result, are accompanied by a number of dysfunctions. Among these dysfunctions are inadequate community engagement, peacekeeper misconduct stemming from the lack of proper training …
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The Infrastructure of Peace: Socio-spatial planning in UN Peace Operations
… infrastructure building, and the ‘planning for peace’ embedded therein, in the context of United Nations (UN) peace operations. The installation of solar panels, the repair of roads, and the construction of bridges constitutes an important vehicle for conflict transformation and imaginary for …
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Blue Helmeted Dragons : explaining China's participation in United Nations peace operations
China's personnel contributions to United Nations peace operations has significantly increased in the first decade of the twenty-first century, however little academic or policy attention has been given to examining patterns of Chinese participation. Most current literature examines China's voting …
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Conditions Affecting the Outcome of Peace Operations in Post-Cold War Africa
… have led to successful outcomes in international peace operations conducted in Sub Saharan African countries? What factors explain mission failure? I proposed a basic theory of peace operations that linked conflict conditions to mandate design to the capability of an intervening force deployed for …
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Civil-military relations in European security institutions -- challenges of multi-institutionality in peace operations
… adapted to or emerged as a need to conduct peace operations. The goal is to assess the importance of civil-military relations in planning and conducting peace operations. European security institutions have been involved in peace keeping operations in the Balkans for more then ten …
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By any other name? Rethinking the implications of mandate language in UN peace operations for civilian protection
… of mandate language on civilian protection in peace operations. Because peace operations do not exist in a legal vacuum, and must operate within the law, the first paper situates the 'Protection of Civilians' (POC) concept within the framework of international human rights and international …
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The politics of regional peace operations in West Africa : the relations among ECOWAS, the UN and major powers
Includes bibliographical references.
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The success and failure of United Nations multifunctional peace operations : a comparative case study of conflict transformation in Mozambique and Rwanda
… through the deployment of multifunctional peace operations. It is a study of how the UN seeks to transform violent conflicts into the state of being non-violent conflicts. Thus, a study that examines the process of creating a self-sustaining peace (positive peace), and not only examining …
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Peacebuilding and the private sector : regulating business after conflict
United Nations (UN) peace operations are often at the forefront of efforts to build peace after conflict. They embody universal ideals and seek to give them practical effect during post-contnct peacebuilding. This thesis explores a role for UN peace operations in helping to regulate the …
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Peacebuilding and the private sector : regulating business after conflict
United Nations (UN) peace operations are often at the forefront of efforts to build peace after conflict. They embody universal ideals and seek to give them practical effect during post-contnct peacebuilding. This thesis explores a role for UN peace operations in helping to regulate the …
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Alternative Pathways to Peace and Development in Rural Chiapas, Mexico
The concept of peacebuilding holds enormous importance for international relations, particularly in regions facing impending violent conflict and those recovering from such conflict. However, in order for peacebuilding to be a viable alternative to traditional peace operations, scholars and …
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Dysfunction junction intelligence, peacekeeping, and the United Nations
United Nations peace operations continue to play a vital role in international security, with 15 missions underway in 2007. The UN, however, lacks the institutional intelligence capacity to provide guidance, high-level assessments, and tactical/operational intelligence support for the over 100,000 …
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Bridging the Gap in Human Protection: Contesting the Responsibility to Protect through the Protection of Civilians Norm: A Comparative Study of Brazil, China and South Africa
… discourse of both norms surrounding specific peace operations each country has been involved in and finds that Brazil, China and South Africa contest R2P using normative concepts from POC. Outlining this process builds on the notion that non-Western states have agency in norm contestation of …
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The Business of War: A Content Analysis of Private Military Companies' Websites
… trade association called the International Peace Operations Association. Using content analysis, a keyword search was conducted of member websites to identify the percentage of companies offering a given service. Findings: The data shows that each descriptive category has one service …
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A critical analysis of South African peacemaking in the conflicts in the Great Lakes region
… Lakes region, where conflict resolution and peace operations have been a challenge for 40 years, has been the site of continuous conflicts in the 1960s and 1990s. Despite South Africa's enormous contribution as a peacemaker in the region since 1996, the situation in eastern Democratic …
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Individual Criminal Accountability of UN Police Personnel
… involved in establishing the rule of law, in UN Peace Operations. However, they themselves commit serious crimes, but are not generally prosecuted. This is likely to have an impact on the UN’s effectiveness and legitimacy. Are the UN’s mechanisms for addressing criminal accountability effective? …
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