Who's Keeping the Peace?: Regionalization and Contemporary Peace Operations

Streamlining humanitarian relief operations: the case of United Nations Peace Keeping Operations

Copyright and Moral Rights for the articles on this site are retained by the individual authors and/or other copyright owners. For more information on Open Research Online's data policy on reuse of materials please consult the policies page. Abstract This paper discusses supply chain and logistics issues that arise in the operations of the Peacekeeping base of the United Nations in Brindisi. Fi...

Command Arrangements for Peace Operations

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The authors want to acknowledge the efforts of several colleagues who supported this effort in a variety of ways. The materials from the Center for Advanced Command Concepts and Technologies (ACT) workshops are the products of serious work by dozens of professionals representing not only all of the military Services and the Joint Staff, but also the staff members at the National...

Violence , Peace , and Peace Research

Observer Missions and Peace-keeping Operations in Croatia, Bosnia-herzegovina, and Kosovo

This paper deals with the collective security system as provided in Chapters VI, VII and VIII of the UN Charter. Observer missions and peace-keeping operations have no explicit legal basis in the text of the Char ter. They have developed in practice. Each of them is based on decisions either by the Security Council, or sometimes even by the General Assembly. The second part of this article is c...

Back to the Future? The Lessons of Counterinsurgency for Contemporary Peace Operations

A recent consensus has emerged within peace operations doctrine validating “robust” or “assertive” peacekeeping as an effective mechanism to intervene in complex and volatile intrastate conflicts. The assertion of the validity of “robust peacekeeping” is problematic due to a lack of empirical evidence supporting the application of this management tool. Yet the similarity between the context and...