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Publications
 The
Nexus Between Peacekeeping and
Peace-Building: Debriefing and Lessons
Prepared under the direction of
Nassrine
Azimi and Chang Li Lin (Editors)
Report
of the 1999 Singapore Conference
organised by the
Institute of Policy Studies
The
United Nations Institute for Training and Research
(UNITAR) and the
Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA)
Over the last few years,
and with the collapse of the bipolar world order, new
and complex conflicts have emerged which in some
cases, have ignited into larger and devastating
regional wars. In the very midst of peacekeeping
operations for such conflicts, experts claim, the
requirements of peace-building should be considered a
priority as well. It is for this reason therefore that
the United Nations, even as it deploys military and
civilian forces in the four corners of the globe,
seeks already to set the foundations for sustainable
peace. The task is daunting but the challenge is
impossible to ignore.
Against such a
background and even as events were unfolding in East
Timor and Kosovo, the fourth in a series of
prestigious conferences organised on lessons learnt
from peacekeeping operations was held under the
auspices of the United Nations Institute for Training
and Research (UNITAR), the Institute of Policy Studies
(IPS) of Singapore and the Japan Institute of
International Affairs (JIIA). Throughout two intense
days in Singapore, in November of 1999, an eminent
group academics, government officials, representatives
of international organisations and military scholars
gathered behind closed doors to reflect upon what has
been coined the nexus between peacekeeping and
peace-building.
This volume contains all
the papers commissioned for that event. It also
includes a summary of the many animated debates that
took place during the conference. The broad range of
opinions and perspectives it contains provides
insights into a difficult and important topic, and
demonstrates how dangerous it would be for the
international community to ignore it. Four past cases
(Angola, Haiti, Mozambique, and Cambodia) and two
ongoing operations (Kosovo and East Timor) were
analysed. The findings should give policy-makers,
researchers and international affairs analysts a
candid review and critique of past experiences that is
essential to the comprehension of current peacekeeping
missions and the requirement of peace-building
strategies.
The Nexus Between
Peacekeeping and Peace-Building: Debriefing and
Lessons, Report of the 1999 Singapore
Conference, Prepared under the direction of Nassrine
Azimi and Chang Li Lin (editors), London: Kluwer Law
International for UNITAR, 2000, 262 pages, ISBN
90-411-1389-4
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