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CIAO DATE: 9/5/2006
Peacekeeping and the Peackept: Where Peacekeepers Go
Page Fortna
March 2005
Center for International Studies University of Southern California
Abstract
The following is a draft chapter from the book I am writing on peacekeeping in civil wars in the post-Cold War era. The main questions of the book are whether and how peacekeepers make peace more likely to last in the aftermath of war. Before answering those questions, however, I need to address the fact that peacekeeping is endogenous. Chapter 3 is thus a look at where peacekeepers get sent.
A bit of definitional background, since I am not sending you the introductory chapters: I use the term peacekeeping to refer to the deployment of international personnel to help maintain peace and security in the aftermath of war. This definition includes both operations based on the consent of the belligerents themselves and peace enforcement missions that do not, though I distinguish between these “Chapter VI” and “Chapter VII” missions. Peacekeeping includes both UN missions (which are most common) and peacekeeping conducted by regional organizations or ad hoc coalitions of states.
