IPI and the Permanent Mission of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the United Nations cohosted a policy forum on March 13th on “The Protection of Civilians in African-led and UN-led Peace Operations.”The purpose of this event was to discuss how the…
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Although the 1995 Cenepa war between Ecuador and Peru was the first military conflict in South America in more than five decades, the Ecuador-Peru relationship might be characterized as one of enduring rivalry—punctuated by the threat of armed combat.In the context of this history of recurrent crises, Herz and Nogueira analyze the mediation process that […]
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The UN intervention in East Timor amply illustrates the type of complex operation that the United Nations increasingly is being asked to undertake.Michael Smith analyzes the successes and failures of the UN Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET), which was designed to work in partnership with the East Timorese in guiding the country to independence […]
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There has been surprisingly little systematic analysis of how economic factors contribute to the success or failure of peace agreements.
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Background Paper for the Conference on Policies and Practices for Regulating Resource Flows to Armed Conflicts, co-sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation and held at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Study and Conference Center, May 20 to 24, 2002, Bellagio, Italy.Download
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This report emerged from the Transitional Administrations Project, comparing the UN’s judicial reconstruction efforts in Kosovo, East Timor, and Afghanistan.
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