Author: Beatrice de Graaf Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1350345024 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 243
Book Description
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 ISBN: 9780816035090 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 268
Book Description
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: Lynn Etheridge Davis Publisher: ISBN: Category : Civil war Languages : en Pages : 54
Book Description
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: Erwin A. Schmidl Publisher: Psychology Press ISBN: 9780714649894 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 192
Book Description
Peace operations entail a special form of co-operation between nation-states and international organization, but tend to be most difficult for the soldiers, police and civilian officials on the ground. This volume highlights the latter role with case studies of Srebrenica and Somalia.
Author: Louise Olsson Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 113528637X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 172
Book Description
This volume deals with women's participation in international peacekeeping operations and what those operations might consider to be the role and circumstances of women, including those of the host society. Essays include: a theoretical perspective on women and war, highlighting the difference between post-modernist and universalist approaches to women's roles in peacemaking and conflict resolution, the role of women in military operations, the implications of the high levels of sexual violence in peacekeeping operations and the UN's gender policy for peacekeeping operations.
Author: Larry L. Fabian Publisher: Washington : Brookings Institution ISBN: Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 336
Book Description
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: Beatrice de Graaf
Author: Barbara Benton
Author: Lynn Etheridge Davis
Author: Fariborz Levaye Mokhtari
Author: Fariborz L. Mokhtari
Author: Erwin A. Schmidl
Author: Louise Olsson
Author: Larry L. Fabian
Author: Augustus R. Norton
Author: Richard Michael Connaughton