Moving Forward: UN Robust Peacekeeping and Civilian Protection in Civil Wars

Nsia-Pepra, Kofi

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“…3 With a reduction in superpower competition at the time, it seemed the way was cleared for greater consensus on multilateral initiatives to promote peace and stability, and to protect human rights. The number of multilateral interventions and peacekeeping missions, including the introduction of "robust peacekeeping" 4 to forcefully quell civil violence, or as Hauss characterized it, end "a complex emerging or intractable conflict," jumped markedly. While such moves had been seen before, as in UN efforts in the Congo crisis of the early 1960s, the pace and multilateral nature of these undertakings expanded further after 1990, with missions in such places as Kosovo (NATO, somewhat effective, short and long term), East Timor (UN and Australia, effective, long term), and Somalia (UN, failed).…”

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Conflict Settlement and Outcomes of Post‐Cold War International Military Interventions

Lounsbery¹,

Pearson²

2020

Peace & Change

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Scholars noted a remarkable shift in the pattern and motives of international military intervention with the end of the Cold War, namely toward more multilateral and humanitarian missions, often leading to more negotiated conflict settlement. Yet just twenty years later, counter-trends had already begun to emerge, with renewed major power competition, more complicated multi-factional civil wars, and cross-border insurgent/terrorist networks. Using aggregate intervention data from 1989 to 2006 and case study analysis since 2010, we examine the question of continuity versus change in international security and humanitarian policy, in general, and regarding military intervention and outcomes, in particular. Based on patterns of pro-and anti-government interventions and their effects on conflict duration and outcome, appropriate policy approaches are suggested.

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Conflict Settlement and Outcomes of Post‐Cold War International Military Interventions

Lounsbery¹,

Pearson²

2020

Peace & Change

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“…The protection and advancement of human rights is a fundamental objective of the United Nations in its commitment to save future generation from the impact of wars. Therefore, the UN peacekeeping missions deployed in violent civil wars has increasingly expected to prevent and or halt human rights violation (Nsia-Pepra, 2014).…”

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The United Nations Peacekeeping Operations and Challenges

Sarjoon¹,

Yusoff²

2019

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The United Nations (UN) is mandated to maintain international peace and security. The UN attempts to achieve this mandate through different means including peacekeeping by deploying personnel and experts in conflict situations. The UN has adopted number of policies and mechanism to strengthen its peacekeeping operations. Although there are number of activities focusing on peacekeeping with notable successful operations, the UN still face issues and challenges which have been negatively influencing the efficiency, effectiveness and the success of its peacekeeping operations. This paper has attempted to examine the key activities of UN peacekeeping operations, their impact, and the major issues that negatively influence and challenge the peacekeeping operations. The study has found that the UN peacekeeping operations have worked effectively in managing conflict situations and establishing peace in many parts of the world. However, the shortcomings and issues particularly in terms of political, military and humanitarian aspects of the operations have negatively influenced the peacekeeping operations in achieving their targets successfully. The study urges the importance of policy and institutional reforms together with commitments of parties, institutions, and involving actors in order to strengthen peacekeeping operations and establish sustainable peace in many corners in the world.

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Moving Forward: UN Robust Peacekeeping and Civilian Protection in Civil Wars

Cited by 2 publications

References 6 publications

Conflict Settlement and Outcomes of Post‐Cold War International Military Interventions

Conflict Settlement and Outcomes of Post‐Cold War International Military Interventions

The United Nations Peacekeeping Operations and Challenges

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