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A New Era in Peacekeeping for the United Nations : Leaving Traditional Peacekeeping Behind [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Economics and Management, 2015
This paper seeks to demonstrate the gradual transformation that the United Nations peacekeeping has undergone during the post-Cold War era. The recent peacekeepers not only keep, but also build the peace in certain circumstances.
Gözde Kaya
doaj  

United Nations Peacekeeping Operations in the era of COVID-19

open access: yesThe Journal of Intelligence, Conflict and Warfare, 2020
With its seven peacekeeping operations deployed in the African continent, the United Nations peacekeeping seeks to maintain peace and security by helping African states create conditions for sustainable peace.
Amanda M. Makosso
doaj   +1 more source

Brokering Peace: Emerging Middle Powers, Agency and Mediation

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the role of mediation in emerging middle power conduct in an increasingly fragmented world. It asks why and how emerging middle powers seek mediator roles in international conflicts, focusing on Turkey and Indonesia's responses to the Russia–Ukraine war.
Buğra Süsler, Chris Alden
wiley   +1 more source

Establishment of UN Cyber Peacekeeping Force: Prospects and Challenges

open access: yesNUST Journal of International Peace and Stability, 2019
With the emergence of cyberspace as the fifth domain of warfare, the prospects of cyber conflicts have increased significantly. Around 300 state-sponsored cyber operations have been conducted since 2005. The future uncertainty of cyber-warfare has
Fahad Nabeel
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Organizational and financial aspects of the ATHENA mechanism implementation in the Ministry of Defence [PDF]

open access: yesВојно дело, 2015
Peacekeeping missions and operations have been increasingly becoming the main way to involve armed forces, at a multinational level in particular. In addition to the United Nations missions, in which the Serbian Armed Forces and other defense forces of ...
Đorđević Zoran, Krga Branko
doaj   +1 more source

Gender sidestreaming? Analysing gender mainstreaming in national militaries and international peacekeeping

open access: yesEuropean Journal of International Security, 2020
Twenty years after the passing of Resolution 1325, the participation of women as military personnel in peacekeeping operations remains limited. Women currently comprise just under five per cent of military personnel in UN peacekeeping missions, and the ...
Vanessa F. Newby, Clotilde Sebag
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Peacekeeping, 1965: The Canadian Military’s Viewpoint [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Peacekeeping has become a growth industry over the last few years, both in terms of the proliferation of missions and the numerous academic analyses of them.
Lenarcic, David A.
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South Africa: The Ambiguities of a Middle Power

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT South Africa represents an interesting species of a middle power. This derives from its inherited economic muscle as Africa's powerhouse and the liberation struggle against apartheid, both of which have shaped its democratic transition. The traditions of liberation and democracy, in turn, have profoundly influenced how South Africa has ...
Garth L. le Pere
wiley   +1 more source

Understanding the nature and threats of drug trafficking to national and regional security in West Africa

open access: yesStability : International Journal of Security and Development, 2014
Several West African states are threatened by increasingly powerful transnational organised criminal networks. Yet, scholarly work on the nature, characteristics and strength of these groups and how their activities threaten states remains ...
Kwesi Aning, John Pokoo
doaj   +1 more source

Twenty Years of Collapse and Counting: The Cost of Failure in Somalia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Analyzes the human and financial costs of Somali conflicts and famines, including costs of humanitarian and development aid; peacekeeping, military responses and aid, anti-terrorism, and diplomacy; piracy; and international crime and illicit money ...
Bronwyn Bruton, John Norris
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