Diehl and Druckman: Not the Same Old Way: Trends in Peace Operations

Tags: papers, un and global governance lecture 2

Questions

Summary

• Identifies 4 “ages” of peacebuilding
  • 56-78 - golden age
  • 79-88 - lost decade
  • 89 - 90’s - revival
  • post-2000’s - restructuring
• peacekeeping was initially founded in the arab-israeli and india-pakistan conflicts
• during cold war, harder to carry out peace ops independent of the UN because of the lack of regional organizations
  • now un, eu, african union (au), and commonwealth of independent states (cis) have all carried out peace operations
• 80% of un operations revolve around ceasefires
• rise of civial and intra-state wars have lead to shifting of how UN tackles problems
• pre-cold war, state government was absolutely and sovereignty was respected wrt the deployment
• changes
  • disputants have asked for help in newly democratic states
  • humanitarian intervention
    • kosovo force (KFOR)
    • united nations operation in somalia (UNOSOM)
• training standards among states have varied greatly
• civil conflict peacekeeping operations have taken longer, and much harder to resolve in the post-cold war era
• rise of conflict prevention