Recent anti-UN protests have fueled concerns that some UN peacekeeping operations are facing a “crisis of legitimacy” among host-state populations. Without local legitimacy, there are questions about whether peacekeepers should be present. Peacekeeping…
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This unique inside account traces events in East Timor from the negotiations that led to the May 1999 agreements among Indonesia, Portugal, and the United Nations to the mandating of international intervention to check the violence that wracked the country following the elections. Ian Martin, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative in East Timor at the […]
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A report from the Transitional Administrations Project, examining statebuilding under the aegis of UNMIK, and considering questions on Kosovo’s autonomy.Download
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A report based on IPA/Africa Renaissance Institute/Southern African Regional Institute for Policy Studies/Department of International Relations, University of the Witwatersrand Seminar on Southern Africa’s Evolving Security Architecture: Problems and Prospects, in Gaborone, Botswana between December 11 and 13, 2000.
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A report of the project on “Self-Determination, Security, and the United Nations,” Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver, and the International Peace Academy.Download
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Drawing on case studies of the most relevant peace and security issues in the Caucasus, the occasion enabled participants to scrutinize the international and regional security organizations interaction and to draw lessons learned for the future; the experience of the UN and the OSCE in managing the challenges of the Caucasus; and the institutional approaches […]
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