Cornwallis: Analysis for Crisis Response and Societal Reconstruction

Politics & Social Sciences

Woodcokc, Alexander

Politics & Government

Bpr Pub

This book looks at the role of international civilian police (CIVPOL) in peace operations from the US perspective. Specifically, it focuses on the issue of why the United States, as the architect of the Dayton Accords, agreed to create an International Police Task Force (IPFT) in Bosnia that the drafters of the agreement believed would not work. To answer that question, the study looks at the history of US involvement with foreign police forces from the days of ‘gunboat diplomacy’ at the turn of the Twentieth Century through the failure of the Office of Public Security during the Cold War. The book also examines a number of peacekeeping case studies to determine whether there were adequate ‘lessons learned’ to have guided US negotiators. Finally, the book presents the results of interviews with the diplomats and military officers who drafted the Dayton agreement to provide the answer. These first-person accounts also offered insights into the problems that confronted the IPTF and the international police mission in Kosovo. In conclusion, the study draws upon the case studies and the Bosnia and Kosovo experience, plus US Presidential Decision Directive-71 and the Brahimi Commission Report to offer recommendations for improving the use of international civilian police in current and future peace operations. This book is first in The Academic Series published by Canadian Peacekeeping Press. The author, Robert M. Perito, is a Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, DC and an Adjunct Professor in the Program on Peacekeeping Policy at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.

The American Experience with Police in Peace Operations

Perito, Robert M.

Analysis for Assessment, Evaluation and Crisis Management

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Davis, David

Woodcock, Alexander

Psychology & Counseling

The themes of Part I of this new collection run the gauntlet from disaster relief to aspects of modern peacebuilding. The initial chapter delineates a framework for much of the subsequent analysis and definition. Three leading issues are then explored: the changing face of sovereignty, the values and motivations that drive the various UN peacekeeping partners, and key economic influences that impact on and after complex disasters. The fifth chapter focuses on the nuances of aid and development negotiations, while the section concludes with a case study on the International Red Cross and Red Crescent. Part II concentrates on aspects of capacity building before, during and after crises. What lessons are really being learned, who decides and how? Cases are drawn from a number of regions (including parts of Africa, Eastern Europe and South East Asia). Among institutional features explored are examples from the Pearson Peacekeeping Centre, the Ghanaian Institute for Management and Public Institution, the Government of Zimbabwe and several university partnership projects. In Part III, the Shapes of Lessons Past and Contours of Future Trends are speculated upon. The real war ahead, it is argued, is not so much against terrorism, serious symptom though that be, but against poverty and greed within and between nations. This book blends conceptual frameworks with case studies and operational insights that make it a welcome teaching resource, as well as a stimulating analysis of many current policy challenges.

Through A Glass Darkly: From Disaster Relief to Modern Peacekeeping

McAllister, Ian

Social Sciences

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