For more than seven decades, UN peacekeeping operations have fulfilled an essential role in managing international crises. Alan Doss has spent a decade at the highest levels of UN peacekeeping in Sierra Leone, Côte d’Ivoire, Liberia, and the Democratic…
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Prevention of conflict is the first promise in the UN Charter, and yet, local parties, governments, and international organizations constantly betray it.Preventive action is at the center of international health policy and action, is vital to environmental improvements globally, and is accepted in many human rights treaties and in efforts to reduce the number and […]
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This study tackles contemporary issues that are of utmost significance to building peace in West Africa.For more information about this book, click here.
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Following on the publication of The Sanctions Decade – lauded as the definitive history and accounting of UN sanctions in the 1990s – David Cortright and George Lopez continue their collaboration to examine the changing context and meaning of sanctions and of the kinds of dilemmas that the Security Council now faces.Cortright and Lopez note […]
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Sierra Leone’s bitter experience with civil war garnered international attention only after the May 1997 coup, though the conflict between the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) and successive governments has raged for at least a decade against the backdrop of more than three decades of progressive state collapse. John Hirsch traces Sierra Leone’s downward spiral, drawing […]
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Despite the deployment of NATO forces in Kosovo and the UN’s direct involvement in governing the province, such terrors as murder, disappearances, bombings, and arson have become routine occurrences. William O’Neill analyzes the nature of the violence that continues to plague Kosovo’s residents and assesses efforts to guarantee public security.O’Neill considers how the particular evolution […]
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