A future for peacekeeping

Peacekeeping and ethnic conflict have been almost inseparable since the end of the Cold War. Ethnic conflict emerged as a major challenge to the new security environment, and peacekeeping provided the international community a promising response. But high hopes for a new global peacekeeping regime that could address the world's trouble spots were shattered when the U.N. suffered several major setbacks during highly publicized ethnic conflicts. What happened, and why have ethnic conflicts so confounded the peacekeepers of the post‐Cold War era? The peacekeeping euphoria of the early post‐Cold‐War era has ended. We must learn from both the successful and the failed missions. Does peacekeeping have a future? Perhaps so, yet in the end it will not be the U.N. itself, but rather its member states—and especially the most powerful ones—whose commitment to peacekeeping will determine its future

Cold war · Development economics · Economics · Ethnic conflict · Ethnic group · Peacekeeping · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Law · Military History and Strategy · Peacebuilding and International Security · Political Conflict and Governance

• From theory to practice

  Karin Aggestam•Cambridge Review of International…•2001

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