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The joint OAU/IPA consultation brought together members of the African diplomatic corps accredited to the OAU as well as a select group of scholars and practitioners in the fields of preventive diplomacy, peacekeeping, and peacemaking. The participants discussed the following main topics: (1) peacemaking: preventive action and negotiating settlement of conflicts; (2) peacekeeping: prospects for the OAU and cooperation with the United Nations; (3) peacemaking and peacekeeping by sub-regional organizations; (4) strengthening the institutional capacity of the OAU: infrastructure and financial resources; and (5) national reconciliation and reconstruction of the state. In addition, the concept of sovereignty and the limits and scope of external involvement in domestic affairs was discussed. (DÜI-Hff)

Keeping the Peace explores the new multidimensional role that the United Nations has played in peacemaking, peacekeeping, and peacebuilding over the last few years. By examining the paradigm-setting cases of Cambodia and El Salvador, and drawing lessons from these UN 'success stories', the book seeks to point the way toward more effective ways for the international community to address conflict in the post-Cold War era. This book is especially timely given its focus on the heretofore amorphous middle ground between traditional peacekeeping and peace. It provides the first comparative, in-depth treatment of substantial UN activities in everything from the demobilization and reintegration of forces, the return of refugees, the monitoring of human rights, and the design and supervision of constitutional, judicial, and electoral reforms, to the observation and even organization and conduct of elections, and the coordination of support for economic rehabilitation and reconstruction of countries torn by war

Keeping the Peace explores the new multidimensional role that the United Nations has played in peacemaking, peacekeeping, and peacebuilding over the last few years. By examining the paradigm-setting cases of Cambodia and El Salvador, and drawing lessons from these UN 'success stories', the book seeks to point the way toward more effective ways for the international community to address conflict in the post-Cold War era. This book is especially timely given its focus on the heretofore amorphous middle ground between traditional peacekeeping and peace. It provides the first comparative, in-depth treatment of substantial UN activities in everything from the demobilization and reintegration of forces, the return of refugees, the monitoring of human rights, and the design and supervision of constitutional, judicial, and electoral reforms, to the observation and even organization and conduct of elections, and the coordination of support for economic rehabilitation and reconstruction of countries torn by war