Diehl and Druckman: Not the Same Old Way: Trends in Peace Operations [ab0c4d8d]

1. Questions

Identifies 4 "ages" of peacebuilding
- 56-78 - golden age
- 79-88 - lost decade
- 89 - 90's - revival
- post-2000's - restructuring
peacekeeping was initially founded in the arab-israeli and india-pakistan conflicts
during cold war, harder to carry out peace ops independent of the UN because of the lack of regional organizations
- now un, eu, african union (au), and commonwealth of independent states (cis) have all carried out peace operations
80% of un operations revolve around ceasefires
rise of civial and intra-state wars have lead to shifting of how UN tackles problems
pre-cold war, state government was absolutely and sovereignty was respected wrt the deployment
changes
- disputants have asked for help in newly democratic states
- humanitarian intervention
  - kosovo force (KFOR)
  - united nations operation in somalia (UNOSOM)
training standards among states have varied greatly
civil conflict peacekeeping operations have taken longer, and much harder to resolve in the post-cold war era
rise of conflict prevention