Sharing the Burden of Peace
Inter-Organizational Cooperation in Peace Operations
Summary
Excerpt
Table Of Contents
- Cover
- Advance Praise
- Title
- Copyright
- About the author
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Acknowledgments
- Table of Contents
- List of Tables
- List of Figures
- Chapter One: Introduction
- Chapter Two: Prior Research on Inter-Organizational Cooperation
- Chapter Three: Why Cooperate? Explaining Rationales for Cooperation
- Chapter Four: Definitions, Measurements, and Datasets
- Chapter Five: Findings: Resources and Complementarity
- Chapter Six: Peacekeepers’ Thoughts on Inter-Organizational Cooperation
- Chapter Seven: Case Studies – Afghanistan, Darfur (Sudan), and Kosovo
- Chapter Eight: Concluding Remarks and Policy Recommendations
List of Tables
Table 4.1.Number of Peace Operations by Sending Authority
Table 4.2.Peace Operations Initiated Per Year, 1948–2008
Table 4.3.Number of Peace Operations Active Per Year
Table 4.4.Distribution of All Peace Operations by Geographic Region
Table 4.5.Typology of Multiple Simultaneous Peace Operations
Table 5.1.Cooperation Percentages Between International Organizations
Table 5.2.Percentage of Inter-Organizational Cooperation by Conflict
Table 5.3.Logistic Regression for the Dyadic Dataset
Table 5.4.Logistic Regression for the Dyad-Year Dataset
Table 5.5.Summary of Findings from the Statistical Analyses
Table 6.1.Summary of Findings from Interviews
Table 7.1.Illustration of the Hypotheses Through the Case Studies
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Figure 3.1.Collective Principals-Multiple Agents in Africa
Figure 3.2.Collective Principals-Multiple Agents in Europe
Figure 4.1.Clusters of IGO-IGO Cooperation in Peace Operations
Figure 5.1.Inter-Organizational Cooperation in European Union’s Peace Operations
Figure 5.2.Inter-Organizational Cooperation in African Union’s Peace Operations
Figure 5.3.Inter-Organizational Cooperation in NATO’s Peace Operations
Figure 5.4.Inter-Organizational Cooperation in OSCE’s Peace Operations
Figure 5.5.Average Levels of Inter-Organizational Cooperation for All IOs
Chapter One
Introduction
“Partnerships have now become the predominant architecture for peacekeeping operations.” (Derblom, Frisell, and Schmidt 2008, 39)
The majority, 65% (41 out of 63), of the global peace operations are conducted in some form of inter-organizational partnership. A number of intergovernmental organizations, besides the United Nations (UN), such as the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the European Union (EU), the African Union (AU), the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), have their own peace operations departments and deploy their own civilian and military peacekeepers in various conflicts around the world. The EU is the most active regional organization in the field of peace and security with 23 peace operations from 2003 to 2008, deploying more peace operations than the UN during that time.
In the aftermath of the Balkan wars in the mid-1990s, there has been an increase in multiple simultaneous peace operations (MSPOs), with several organizations having their own operations deployed in the same conflict, at the same time. For example, in Bosnia-Herzegovina, there were four international organizations that deployed peace operations during overlapping time periods – UN’s UNPROFOR1 and UNMIBH2; NATO’s SFOR3 and IFOR4, OSCE and EU’s EUPM5, and EUFOR-Althea6. The presence on the ground of peacekeepers wearing uniforms ←1 | 2→and helmets of different colors, with different mandates, responsibilities, chains of command, logistics and directives from their headquarters, requires some form of cooperation between the international organizations that deploy peace operations so that they do not, unintentionally, undermine each other’s efforts.
This increase in peace operations’ inter-organizational cooperation since the mid-1990s has not been paralleled by an increase in the scholarly analysis of this phenomenon. We still have little understanding of why we observe international organizations (IOs) deployed in the same conflicts, at the same time, and increasingly cooperating with each other to address these conflicts. Many of the policy-makers, at the UN or the EU, who work on issues of inter-organizational cooperation started thinking about this question only when asked about it for the purposes of this book.
Details
- Pages
- XVI, 156
- Year
- 2022
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9781433195716
- ISBN (ePUB)
- 9781433195723
- ISBN (Hardcover)
- 9781433195778
- DOI
- 10.3726/b19504
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 2022 (April)
- Keywords
- Peace Operations International Organizations European Union Peacekeeping International Cooperation Conflict, Peace Afghanistan Darfur Kosovo United Nations NATO Sharing the Burden of Peace Inter-Organizational Cooperation in Peace Operations
- Published
- New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Oxford, Wien, 2022. XVI, 156 pp., 8 b/w ill., 12 tables.
