Training for Peace Operations: The U.S. Army Adapts to the Post-Cold War World

Training for Peace Operations: The U.S. Army Adapts to the Post-Cold War World

Saturday, February 1, 1997

By: Colonel J. Michael Hardesty;  Jason D. Ellis

When the United States Institute of Peace announced a joint fellowship program with the U.S. Army War College, some observers unfamiliar with the Institute's work noted an apparent irony: Why should an organization devoted to the peaceful resolution of international conflict work with an institution whose main job is fighting wars?

Type: Peaceworks

Zaire: Predicament and Prospects

Zaire: Predicament and Prospects

Wednesday, January 1, 1997

By: J. C. Willame et al.

For more than five years, the people of Zaire have struggled to survive in a state on the brink of utter collapse. Amid growing economic disarray and infrastructural breakdown, standards of living have plummeted, moral and ethical standards have withered, and violence has risen. Political authority is almost hopelessly fragmented and discredited.

Type: Peaceworks

Peace Operations and Common Sense: Replacing Rhetoric with Realism

Saturday, June 1, 1996

By: Denis McLean

The shortcomings of several recent peace operations have led many people to conclude that the whole concept is flawed and has little bearing on U.S. interests. The record, however, suggests that peace operations have not only reduced instability in many parts of the globe but have also been something of a minor boon to U.S. foreign policy.

Type: Peaceworks

Peace Operations and Common Sense

Saturday, June 1, 1996

The shortcomings of several recent peace operations have led many people to conclude that the whole concept is flawed and has little bearing on U.S. interests. The record, however, suggests that peace operations have not only reduced instability in many parts of the globe but have also been something of a minor boon to U.S. foreign policy. It is necessary to confront this strange gulf between Washington perceptions and reality. Denis McLean, a New Zealander, is currently Warburg Professor ...

Type: Peaceworks

Serbian Nationalism and the Origins of the Yugoslav Crisis

Serbian Nationalism and the Origins of the Yugoslav Crisis

Monday, April 1, 1996

By: Vesna Pesic

The dissolution of multinational communist federations and the ensuing armed conflicts that have emerged with their transformation into independent nation-states have returned the "national question" (i.e., the relationship of a national or ethnic group to a state that includes multiple ethnic groups within its territory) to the forefront of debates over international politics, law, and theory.

Type: Peaceworks

NGOs and Conflict Management

NGOs and Conflict Management

Thursday, February 1, 1996

By: Pamela R. Aall

The staff of the Institute has gone through the voluminous proceedings of the September 1995, "Managing Chaos" conference to distill the views expressed by nongovernmental organization (NGO) representatives and others on the emerging role of NGOs in managing international conflict.

Type: Peaceworks

Humanitarian Assistance and Conflict in Africa

Humanitarian Assistance and Conflict in Africa

Thursday, February 1, 1996

By: David R. Smock

The good work of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in recent conflicts in such countries as Somalia, Haiti, and Bosnia is well known—providing food, shelter, medicine, and a host of other materials and services under extremely difficult conditions. But does humanitarian assistance in some cases actually exacerbate conflict?

Type: Peaceworks

Conflict Analysis & Prevention

Sources of Conflict: Highlights from the Managing Chaos Conference

Sources of Conflict: Highlights from the Managing Chaos Conference

Tuesday, August 1, 1995

By: G.M. Tamas;  Samuel P. Huntington;  Robert Kaplan;  Jessica Tuchman Mathews

The choice of the term "chaos" could hardly be regarded as a choice beyond controversy. The choice was made in part to acknowledge the debate surrounding the term that surfaced during 1994 and continues apace. Spurred primarily by events in Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, and Rwanda (and the international community's less-than-perfect responses to them), this debate centers on the question of whether the forces of order in the world are not in fact being overwhelmed by increasing and increasingly nov...

Type: Peaceworks

Conflict Analysis & Prevention