Friedensstrategien in komplexen Konfliktfeldern. Lehren aus dem zerfallenen Jugoslawien
In: Die Friedens-Warte: Journal of International Peace and Organization, Band 71, Heft 4, S. 455-472
ISSN: 0340-0255
The number of UN peacekeeping missions between 1998 & 1992 exceeded the number of UN missions in the previous 40 years, resulting in development of the 1992 "Agenda for Peace" strategy. These primarily civil conflicts resulted in increased complexity & difficulty of these missions, & the problems in Yugoslavia & other nations showed that the UN was neither financially nor organizationally prepared. Successful peacekeeping is not only dependent on the competence of external participants, but relies on the willingness, capacity for compromise, & cooperation of the conflicting parties, where intervention may therefore not always be possible or sensible. However, international peacekeeping could be made more effective by setting a realistic groundwork for the traditional peacekeeping principals of neutrality, consensus, & nonviolence, requiring reconstruction of the perceptions & rationality of the conflicting parties & differentiation of peacekeeping from peace enforcement or peacemaking. L. Kehl