Military, Foreign & International Law, International & World Politics, Political Science, National & International Security, Law, International Relations 

The nature of UN operational involvement in the practical management of conflict has evolved dramatically since the end of the Cold War. The post-Cold War liberation of the Security Council, the subsequent paralysis in its decision-making competence, and the apparent dilution of the concept of sovereignty as a prohibition on intervention have been principal factors in the evolving fortunes of UK peace-support operations.

This evolving environment has had profound implications for the way in which the humanitarian community, the United Nations and military forces engaged under a UN flag have reacted to peace-support operations. This book explores contemporary peace-support operations and examines many of the principal challenges that now confront those charged, in different ways, with bringing peace to war-torn societies. In particular, this volume looks at the evolving nature of military, UN and humanitarian non-governmental organization's intervention in these complex conflicts. It also explores how these organizations relate to one another and the way in which a division of labour is determined. 

SECTION 1 The United Nation and International system: Evolution and Change
1. The Humanitarian Security Dilemma International Peacekeeping...............P 3
Shashi Tharoor and Ian Johnstone
2.Icarus Rising and Falling: The Evolution of UN Command and Control Structures..............................................................................................P 19
Stuart Gordon
3.European Approaches to peacekeeping: The muddled Legacy of the Yugoslav Wars......................................................................................................p 42
Rosemary Durward
4.Bilateral and Multilateral Peacekeeping Unit in Central and Eastern Europe....p 60
Paul Latawski
5.Regional Initiative and Non-UN Form of Intervention in Sub-Saharan Africa....P 78
Edmund Yorke
SECTION II Humanitarian Action and Peace keeping
6.'Those who have the power to hurt but would do more': The military and Humanitarian.........................................................................................P 101
Jim Whitman
7.The Evolution of UN Humanitarian Operation............................................P 115
Sergio Vieira de mello
8.Positioning Humanitarianism in War: Principle of Neutrality,Impartiality and Solidarity................................................................................................P 125
Hugo Slim
9.Understanding,Promotion and Evaluating Coordination: An Outline Framework..............................................................................P 141
Koernraad Van Brabant
10.Armed Protection Humanitarian Action:What are the Question?.................P 163
Koernraad Van Brabant
SECTION III Peace-Support Operation and the Military
11.The Legitimation of Strategic Peacekeeping Military culture, The Defining Moment..................................................................................................P 181
James Gow and Christopher Dandeker
12.British Peacekeeping Doctrine: A Critique................................................P 199
Richard Connaughton
13.A Recipe for Making safe Areas Unsafe...................................................P 213
Stuart Gordon
14.Civil Affairs: Soldiers Building Bridges....................................................P 231
Edward Flint
15.Warlordism, complex Emergencies and the Search for a Doctrine of Humanitarian Intervention........................................................................P 253
Paul B.Rich
Index..................................................................................................p 275