In an increasingly globalized world, threats originating from outside the North Atlantic/European area affect the security of the transatlantic alliance, forcing the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to develop capabilities to combat a multiplicity of global threats. Thi…
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This study examines the effects of conflict and international humanitarian responses on forced migration in Sub-Saharan Africa between 1980 and 2007. In facing violent conflicts, not all people leave their homes. Some people decide to stay. Some people seek a refuge outside thei…
Military intervention has been undertaken numerous times since the end of World War II. Such involvement has most commonly taken the form of arms provisions to groups, but has, as in the case of Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Somalia, taken the form of large-scale, combat-force deplo…
This thesis examines the evolution of United Nations Peacekeeping operations during the last decade of the twentieth century. To accomplish this, the author introduces peacekeeping from both theoretical and historic points of view to set the scene for the detailed examination of…
This study focused on Parliamentary oversight of international peacekeeping operations where Canadian Forces (CF) were represented in the 1990s. An examination of the activities of parliament in relation to defence matters from Confederation to the effective end of the Cold War …
Relief agents and armies at war view humanitarian aid very differently. For providers of assistance, donations are seen as life-sustaining relief for civilians. For fighting factions, however, basic necessities such as food, water and milk may be seen as aid and comfort to the e…
In response to the growing number of intra-state conflicts, caused by ethnic and religious divisions, post-conflict peacebuilding missions have been deployed on an increasing scale around the globe. In an effort to rebuild troubled or failed states, international and inter-gover…
On the eve of the 21st century, the international community is on the verge of a crisis in maintaining international peace and security. The old rules, norms, and procedures of the bipolar Cold War environment which regulated international hostilities have collapsed with the dis…
This dissertation addresses the question: why has United Nations peacekeeping been more successful in management of some internal conflicts than others? Success is defined with regard to limiting violence, reducing human suffering, preventing conflict from spreading and fulfilli…
The project examines Nigerian foreign policy in West Africa and its relationship to the participation of Lagos in multinational peacekeeping operations in the same geographic area. Nigerian foreign policy goals tend to remain unchanging while the methods, in particular multinati…
For reasons of Cold War politics, and subsequently for what would become known as “soft power,” Canada has always been an enthusiastic player in the peacekeeping arena. Within these predominantly United Nations missions, supporting peacekeepers through intelligence operations ha…
This dissertation compares Cold War peacekeeping missions with missions in the Post Cold War era, identifying reasons for the success of the former and the failure of the latter. The author dissects the basic components of Classical Peacekeeping (Cold War era) and states that th…
Since the end of the Cold War, the United Nations has expanded its peacekeeping operations in response to the large number of civil conflicts around the world. Many of these recent missions are “multidimensional,” in that they include sizable military, police, refugee, humanitar…
New approaches to third-party conflict resolution stress the significance of the interconnectionsbetween the interventions of various external actors. Recent empirical and policy-onented work oncivil wars underscores the recurrent policy challenges such external actors face in p…
The purpose of this research project is to examine the role of conflict resolution in training programmes for military peacekeepers. It offers a significant contribution to the conflict resolution literature by providing contemporary analysis of where further manifestations exis…
Interview transcripts of 11 Finnish CIVPOL officers were analyzed for themes. These interviews had been conducted in the war zones of Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina during 1994 and 1995. The review of psychological literature found an absence of understanding about two important…
This paper examines which group is more effective at performing peacekeeping missions in post-Cold War Africa - the United Nations or separate great powers not operating under UN control. It considers four cases: Somalia, Mozambique, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Sier…
This dissertation examines the role of the United Nations in the resolution of civil wars. I examine the UN's intervention decisions, the ultimate success of the peacekeeping missions, and the connections between these decisions and the success of these missions. In UN Peacekeep…
This dissertation investigates the research question: Can an international institution alter state behavior and thereby contribute to the peaceful resolution of a conflict? It focuses on the series of interrelated peacekeeping efforts undertaken to help resolve the Arab-Israeli …