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Project Contact
Kirsten Soder
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The monitoring of current multilateral peace missions is an important element of our work. The project surveys the significant shifts in trends in multilateral peace operations and considers their potential impact on current policy issues for international efforts in post-conflict peace-building. Themes such as the efforts to develop and enhance the institutional capacities of the UN and of regional organizations in crisis management operations, the financial costs of operations, as well as issues of legitimacy and transparency are examined in-depth. Analysis is confined to peace missions that are conducted under the authority of the UN, of regional organizations and/or by ad hoc coalitions of states sanctioned by the UN. The project produces an annual table in the SIPRI Yearbook which lists comprehensive data on all the multilateral peace operations reviewed.
Enter the database on multilateral peace operations
View an interactive map with data on multilateral peace operations conducted during 2007.
Peace Operations: Trends, Progress and Prospects
SIPRI, the Center for Peace and Security Studies (CPASS) at Georgetown
University, and The Fund for Peace (FFP) are partners in a project
examining the prospects for increased participation in peace operations
by regional and sub-regional organizations and by states within such
organizations.
A premise for this project is that the demand for troops to take part
in peace operations will exceed supply. While much has been
written about peacekeeping over the past decade, with a particular
focus on assessing the capabilities of the UN and a select number of
regional organizations, more research is needed to systematically
evaluate the factors shaping the decisions of troop contributing
countries. The project aims to survey and evaluate the current
trends in contemporary peace operations capacities, both at the
institutional and national levels and to identify the factors that
determine those trends. Factors may include internal political
and economic motivations and constraints, regional competition or
cooperation, past experiences with peacekeeping, ethical and normative
frameworks, calculations based on international prestige, and
relationships with dominant countries.
The project will focus not only on those regions (Europe and Africa)
whose organizations are most active in peace operations, but also on
the regions (Latin America, East Asia, and the greater Middle East)
whose states generally evidence a lower inclination to undertake such
operations. It will also address how the UN might better interact
with regional institutions and less formalized coalitions of willing
state actors, and it will examine the inclinations of national and
regional actors to undertake peace operations in coordination with the
UN.
The centerpiece of the project will be an edited book with
contributions from leading scholars from each of the world’s major
regions. The book will also include end with
concrete recommendations to increase overall global capacities to
undertake peace operations. The volume will be available in September 2008, see Georgetown University Press.
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