Peacekeeping: Resilience of an idea

Mateja Peter

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-99106-1_2

Peacekeeping: Resilience of an idea

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This chapter examines the evolution of the idea of UN peacekeeping, asking how an instrument developed in the late 1940s managed to not only survive but also respond to the changing geopolitical and conflict landscape over the last seventy years. Through an overview of major doctrinal developments and institutional adaptations, the chapter analyses how the peacekeeping tool was adapted from a bipolar world, via a unipolar one to today’s multipolar world. Peter argues that peacekeeping started as a conflict management instrument, which was adapted to a conflict resolution mechanism after the end of the Cold War, but has now come full circle and is again increasingly used to manage and contain, not resolve conflicts.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	United Nations peace operations in a changing global order
Editors	Cedric de Coning, Mateja Peter
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Pages	25-43
ISBN (Electronic)	9783319991061
ISBN (Print)	9783319991054
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99106-1_2
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2019

Keywords

United Nations
Peacekeeping

UN SDGs

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