Institutionalization of the UN Police Peacekeeping

An assessment of the effectiveness of UN peacekeeping operations

978 - 0 - 521 - 88138 - 8 - UN Peacekeeping in Civil Wars

Civil war is the most important and troubling problem in international life today. Aside from the tragic killing and injury of innocent civilians, violent civil conflicts inspire lingering, seemingly intractable ills such as state collapse, corruption, dire poverty, rampant injustice, dislocation, environmental degradation, and disease, all of which may in turn instigate renewed and spreading c...

Immunization of peacekeeping forces.

Nicole Cancré,* Gérard Grésenguet,† François-Xavier Mbopi-Kéou, ‡Alain Kozemaka,† Ali Si Mohamed,* Mathieu Matta,* Jean-Jacques Fournel,§ and Laurent Bélec* *Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Hôpital Broussais, Paris, France; †Centre National de Transfusion Sanguine, Bangui, République Centrafricaine; ‡London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United-Kingdom; and §Hôpital de la Pi...

Peacekeeping & Violence against Civilians

The institutionalization of Open Source

Using concepts of neoinstitutional economics, such as transaction cost economics, institutional economics, property rights theory, and information economics, the development of the Open Source movement is investigated. Following the evolution of institutions in Open Source, it is discussed what the comparative institutional advantages of this model are. The conclusion is that it is the institut...