Abstract
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 |
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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 | |
Publication status | Published - 2015 |
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