Ethnic Conflicts and Peacekeeping

The chapter highlights the barriers to managing, resolving, and/or putting an end to ethnic conflict and violence in ethnically divided war-torn societies through peacekeeping operations. It uses the examples of ethnic civil war and United Nations peace operations to present some of the opportunitie...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Cruz Aguilar, Sergio Luiz [UNESP]
Tipo de recurso: capítulo de libro
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)
Repositorio:Repositório Institucional da UNESP
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.unesp.br:11449/247342
Acceso en línea:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-1486-6_7
http://hdl.handle.net/11449/247342
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Civil war
Conflict prevention
Conflict resolution
Ethnic conflicts
Peacekeeping
Descripción
Sumario:The chapter highlights the barriers to managing, resolving, and/or putting an end to ethnic conflict and violence in ethnically divided war-torn societies through peacekeeping operations. It uses the examples of ethnic civil war and United Nations peace operations to present some of the opportunities and challenges faced by operations while dealing with these types of armed conflict. It focuses on preventive and reactive deployment, as well as the location and size of peacekeeping, local conflict, and the coordination and commitment of troops.