Conflict Resolution Roles in International Peacekeeping Missions

2019 ◽  
pp. 105-134
Author(s):  
Daniel Druckman ◽  
James A. Wall ◽  
Paul F. Diehl
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
International Peacekeeping ◽  
Peacekeeping Missions

Predictors of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder in Military Personnel Deployed to Peacekeeping Missions

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (S1) ◽  
pp. S724-S724
Author(s):  
S. Giorgi ◽  
N. Guguahsvili ◽  
T. Oniani ◽  
G. Kanaldarishvili ◽  
E. Lelashvili
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Military Personnel ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Service Members ◽  
Depression Symptom ◽  
Depression And Anxiety ◽  
Post Traumatic Stress ◽  
Competing Interest ◽  
International Peacekeeping ◽  
Peacekeeping Missions

BackgroundThe following study shows that PTSD, depression and anxiety present actual and urgent problem in military field. These disorders appear to be highly co-morbid that results in much more complicated treatment process and outcome. Service members of Georgian armed forces participate in various international peacekeeping operations on the regular basis, though there are no researches conducted so far to provide evidence for mental health problem prevalence in Georgian deployed military personnel.MethodCollection of the data took place during the period of 2014–2015 years after six months of service members returning from the international peacekeeping mission back to their homes. The sample for this research were represented by 2799 servicemen who actively engaged in ISAF peacekeeping missions. All of them were male, with average age: M = 29.3 (SD = 6.3). The data for the following research were collected using self-administered assessment measures, namely PCL-5 for PTSD screening and PHQ for depression and Anxiety and somatic complaints assessment.ResultsPTSD appeared to be significantly predicted by range/level of anxiety and depression symptom urgency, nevertheless after joint/combine integration of these variables in one regressional equation, just symptoms of depression remained as statistically reliable explanatory factor for the significant percentage of the somatic symptom range variation.ConclusionIt would be wise to recommend mental health care specialists particularly to bear in mind the possibility of co-existing depression and anxiety symptoms in patients with PTSD.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

Mechanisms of Peacekeeping Effectiveness

2019 ◽  
pp. 45-74
Author(s):  
Lisa Hultman ◽  
Jacob D. Kathman ◽  
Megan Shannon
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Incomplete Information ◽  
Theoretical Foundation ◽  
Violence Reduction ◽  
Un Peacekeeping ◽  
Critical Components ◽  
Peacekeeping Missions ◽  
Commitment Problems

This chapter provides the book’s theoretical foundation, establishing that civil war violence results from incomplete information and commitment problems between government and rebel forces. UN peacekeeping reduces violence by making combatants’ use of violence more costly and helping factions commit to peaceful forms of conflict resolution. The two characteristics of peacekeeping missions that best enable them to mitigate violence are capacity and constitution. These characteristics can vary dramatically within and across missions. Capacity is conceptualized as the number of personnel deployed and constitution as the type of personnel deployed. Missions with larger amounts of appropriate personnel better perform violence reduction activities, as do missions constituted with substantial armed troops and police. The capacity and constitution of peacekeeping missions should be considered critical components of peacekeeping’s ability to reduce violence.

Thailand’s Participation in un Peacekeeping Missions

2014 ◽  
Vol 18 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 236-255 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keokam Kraisoraphong ◽  
Brendan Howe
Keyword(s):  
Human Security ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Humanitarian Assistance ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Peacekeeping Operations ◽  
Un Peacekeeping ◽  
Security Operations ◽  
International Peacekeeping ◽  
Peacekeeping Missions ◽  
The Military

This paper traces experiences of the Royal Thai Armed Forces in un peacekeeping missions. A relatively small troop contributor at first, Thailand later took a high-profile role in the un operations in East Timor during 1999–2005, and has continued since then to support several un peacekeeping forces. The paper first discusses the rationales, development, and current status of Thailand’s contributions. It then goes on to explore how, and to what extent, tasks and duties assigned under the un peacekeeping framework to the dispatched forces, as well as experiences and lessons the Thai armed forces gained from their participation in missions, contribute to the diffusion of norms and the development of functional competencies relating to peacekeeping and human security protection within the Thai military. The paper finds that while the dispatched forces received invaluable benefits in terms of prestige, economic rewards and learning experiences from the peacekeeping operations under the un command, including approaches to humanitarian assistance during the time of acute conflict and monitoring human rights violations, the human security norm underlying these functional competencies has yet to be fully internalized by the military as an institution. Yet, there are some areas, especially in civil-military affairs where competencies developed from the internal security operations and international peacekeeping operations can be mutually reinforcing.

scholarly journals Stress perception and sensation seeking in portuguese police officers involved in peace keeping mission in East-Timor

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (S2) ◽  
pp. 1600-1600 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Queiros ◽  
A.P. Melo ◽  
A. Marques
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Sensation Seeking ◽  
East Timor ◽  
Stress Perception ◽  
Low Levels ◽  
International Peacekeeping ◽  
Peacekeeping Missions ◽  
Sensation Seeking Scale ◽  
Police Forces

IntroductionPolicing is a stressful activity. Police officers must deal with aggressive people, delinquents, and danger, or with victims and citizens asking for help. Often they don’t have enough material or human resources and they must decide under stressful conditions. In international peacekeeping missions stressful situations are even more frequent, increased also by hostile reactions of the inhabitants of the country, who sometimes refuse the presence of foreign police forces. Despite those situations, some police officers don’t feel stress and show higher sensation seeking, suggesting that personality traits protect from stress.AimsIdentify levels of stress perception and sensation seeking personality traits in a sample of police officers involved in peace keeping mission in East-Timor, included in United Nations police forces.MethodsData were collected using a translation of Perceived Stress Scale (Cohen et al, 1983) and Sensation Seeking Scale (Zuckerman, 1994), applied to 70 male police officers from portuguese “Guarda Nacional Republicana”, after comeback from a peace keeping mission (mean age 31.3 years).ResultsThe results reveal that sensation seeking” exists in our sample, confirming that the police officers had a tendency to search for new experiences and adventure. Low levels of emotional exhaustion and low stress perception were identified, and the sample has a high tolerance for boredom.ConclusionsPersonality traits can protect from stress and sensation seeking is typical of some activities, including policing. The knowledge of personality traits can be useful to choose individuals who must deal with stressful situations, such us peace keeping missions.

scholarly journals Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict in the Center of the EU Crisis Diplomacy

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 60-67
Author(s):  
Igor Shcherbak ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Collective Actions ◽  
Eu Policy ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Peaceful Settlement ◽  
Basic Parameters ◽  
International Peacekeeping ◽  
Peacekeeping Missions ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
The Eu

The article analyses the key aspects of the EU policy towards Armenian-Azerbaijan armed conflict. The author explores basic parameters of the EU presence in the region and a degree of its influence on political processes and peaceful settlement. The article shows basic directions of possible collective actions of the parties to the conflict and international mediators (Russia, USA, leading states of the EU) concerning peaceful settlement of this crisis situation in the framework of Minsk Group of the OSCE. In this context, the author devotes attention to the questions of status of Nagorno-Karabakh and models of possible international peacekeeping missions to the area.

Power in Peacekeeping by Lise Morjé Howard

2020 ◽  
pp. 99-100
Author(s):  
Natasha Khan
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
International Relations ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Civil Wars ◽  
Central African Republic ◽  
Verbal Persuasion ◽  
Peacekeeping Operations ◽  
Un Peacekeeping ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Peacekeeping Missions

Howard is an experienced scholar in the fields of international relations, civil wars, peacekeeping and conflict resolution. She has authored several works on peacekeeping such as Learning to Keep the Peace? United Nations Multidimensional Peacekeeping in Civil Wars (2001), and UN Peacekeeping in Civil Wars (2007). Her recent work, Power in Peacekeeping, takes a novel approach to explore UN Peacekeeping Operations. This book makes a case for looking at the dynamics of power in peacekeeping missions and exploring how peacekeepers wield their authority in peacekeeping missions. The author suggests that while most studies on peacekeeping document empirical accounts of the successes and failures of PKO’s, it can prove beneficial to understand what kind of powers peacekeepers wield on the ground. These powers are grouped into three major categories: financial and institutional inducement, verbal persuasion, and coercion. The author further categorizes these into, persuasion in Namibia, financial inducement in southern Lebanon and coercion in the Central African Republic. Acting as part of a journalist team, the author has first-hand experience in the areas explored in the book and offers detailed accounts backed by existing research in the field of peacekeeping.

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