Synopsis
Contains papers from a spring 1995 conference, "Australia, the United Nations, Peacekeeping, and Peacemaking," held at Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia. Contributors examine the changed context of international security in the 1990s, and efforts of the UN to resolve civil wars. Part I looks at patterns of conflict and ideas that have framed policy formation. Part II examines case studies in the Middle East, Cambodia, Somalia, and the former Yugoslavia where intervention was inadequate. Part III offers perspectives from Australia on shaping international humanitarian values. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
About the Author
TOM WOODHOUSE is Senior Lecturer and Director of the Centre for Conflict Resolution in the Department of Peace Studies at the University of Bradford. He is the editor of International Peacekeeping News. He has published widely in peace research and conflict resolution, including Peacemaking in a Troubled World and Humanitarian Intervention in Contemporary Conflict.
ROBERT BRUCE is Associate Professor of Politics at the School of Social Sciences, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia
MALCOLM DANDO is Professor of International Security in the Department of Peace, University of Bradford.
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