Incredible commitments : how UN peacekeeping failures shape peace processes /

Incredible commitments : how UN peacekeeping failures shape peace processes /

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Author / Creator:	Dayal, Anjali Kaushlesh, author.
Imprint:	Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021. ©2021
Description:	1 online resource (x, 213 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	United Nations -- Peacekeeping forces. United Nations. -- Security Council. United Nations. United Nations. -- Security Council. Responsibility to protect (International law) Peacekeeping forces. Responsibility to protect (International law)
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12659605

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ISBN:	9781108915151 1108915159 9781108843225 9781108910897 1108910890 1108843220
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 13, 2021).
Summary:	"Why do warring parties turn to United Nations peacekeeping and peacemaking even when they think it will fail? Dayal asks why UN peacekeeping survived its early catastrophes in Somalia, Rwanda, and the Balkans, and how this survival should make us reconsider how peacekeeping works. She makes two key arguments: First, she argues the UN's central role in peacemaking and peacekeeping worldwide means UN interventions have structural consequences - what the UN does in one conflict can shift the strategies, outcomes, and options available to negotiating parties in other conflicts. Second, drawing on interviews, archival research, and processtraced peace negotiations in Rwanda and Guatemala, Dayal argues warring parties turn to the UN even when they have little faith in peacekeepers' ability to uphold peace agreements - and even little actual interest in peace - because its involvement in negotiation processes provides vital, unique tactical, symbolic, and post-conflict reconstruction benefits only the UN can offer"--
Other form:	Print version: Dayal, Anjali Kaushlesh. Incredible commitments Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021 9781108843225

Table of Contents:

Introduction
The social context of international peacekeeping and the alternative benefits of bargaining
Methods and case selection
The Arusha negotiations, 1990-1994: UNAMIR in the shadow of Somalia
Guatemala, 1989-1996: MINUGUA in light of El Salvador
Conclusion.