By Olara A. Otunnu, Michael W. Doyle, Nelson Mandela, Kofi A. Annan, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Jan Eliasson, Gareth Evans, Thomas M. Franck, François Heisbourg, Ismat Kittani, Ali A. Mazrui, Edward Mortimer, Sadako Ogata, Adam Roberts, John Roper, Salim Ahmed S
The UN's list in peace operations is lengthy, a number of, exceptional by means of either accomplishments and screw ups, and most significantly, leading edge. Unfulfilled expectancies and escalating violence in Somalia, Rwanda, and Bosnia pressured retrenchment upon UN peace operations_but whilst, a brand new chance to reinforce capacities, evaluate concepts, redefine roles, and reaffirm obligations has spread out. right here, a dynamic team of major diplomats, teachers, and reporters combines forces with UN policymakers and leaders together with present Secretary-General Kofi Annan and previous Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali to discover how the overseas group can enhance its perform in negotiating and imposing peace. they give the impression of being at what works and what does not in UN peacemaking and peacekeeping, after which map out substitute futures for UN motion within the twenty first century.
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He argues that where populations with two strong ethnic identities are intermixed, violence is especially likely unless innovative schemes of power-sharing are developed. Mazrui provides suggestions regarding how power could be sustainably shared in countries characterized by severe internal divisions and prone to violent conflict. He diagnoses societies characterized by ethnic duality, but without an accompanying territorial duality, as being particularly prone to conflict. Examples of such societies are Rwanda and Burundi, which are characterized by conflict between the Hutus and Tutsis but not by a territorial division between the two groups.
French-British intervention in the aftermath of the war against Iraq. By 1996 the Kurdish factions were so divided that they appeared incapable of establishing law and order in their territory. Instead, three factions divided the region. None appeared capable of sustaining itself against whatever attempts to reincorporate Kurdistan Saddam Hussein would make. The international community had thus placed Page 10 itself in the awkward position of either adopting Kurdistan as a long-term ward or returning it to the not-so-tender mercies of the Iraqi ruler.
Doyle With the assistance of Chetan Kumar, Demitra Pappas, Marc Bennett, and Elise Oliver ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS, INC. Lanham New York Boulder Oxford Page ii ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS, INC. Published in the United States of America by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. 4720 Boston Way, Lanham, Maryland 20706 12 Hid's Copse Road Cumnor Hill, Oxford OX2 9JJ, England Copyright © 1998 by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. Chapter 2 copyright © 1996 Adam Roberts All rights reserved.