Peace operations are now a principal tool for managing armed conflict and building world
peace. The fully revised, expanded and updated second edition of Understanding …

This year marks the 75th anniversary of what the UN itself understands to be its first
peacekeeping operation. It is therefore an appropriate time to reflect on the track record of …

Global politics impact on UN peacekeeping and four trends are worth noting. UN
peacekeeping is being downscaled, there is less emphasis on human rights, more …

This chapter explores the relationship between pacifism and peace. It begins by noting how
pacifism and peace are natural bedfellows, but how in practice pacifism and its commitment …

This book is a critical political and institutional reflection on UN peace operations. It provides
constructive suggestions as to how the UN and the international system can evolve to …

Recent scholarship has discerned an increasing tendency of the UN Security Council to
push the boundaries of UN peacekeeping beyond traditional doctrine by equipping peace …

Complexity theory offers a theoretical framework for analysing how social systems prevent,
manage and recover from violent conflict. Insights from complexity suggest that for a peace …

As UN peacekeeping continues to move through a period of change and rupture, we
conceptualise this turn as 'pragmatic'and take interest in its normative dimensions. In this …

This article explores the application of complexity theory to UN peacekeeping. To date,
peacekeeping has been dominated by linear models of change, assuming that conflict …

The “uploading” of stabilization to UN peacekeeping presents conceptual, political, and
practical challenges to the UN's role in global governance and international conflict …