Introduction: Evolving Challenges and Alternative Perspectives to Peacekeeping in Complex Security Environments

D. Curran; T. Fraser

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-16372-7_1

Introduction: Evolving Challenges and Alternative Perspectives to Peacekeeping in Complex Security Environments

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Since its inception, the notion that United Nations (UN) peacekeeping represents the organization’s best effort to maintain international peace and security for populations emerging from conflict has been relentlessly queried and challenged. The UN’s institutionalization of peacekeeping was heralded as “a conceptual masterpiece” (Urquhart 1987, p. 133) and since then, peacekeeping has continued to evolve—sometimes successfully, sometimes unsuccessfully—and has continued to develop new mandates and operational techniques in response to the increasingly complex political and physical environments into which peacekeepers are deployed.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Perspectives on Peacekeeping and Atrocity Prevention
Editors	David Curran, Trudy Fraser, Larry Roeder, Robert Zuber
Publisher	Springer Verlag
Pages	106
ISBN (Print)	978-3-319-16371-0
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16372-7_1
Publication status	Published - 2015

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