United Nations Peacekeeping Challenge

An accessible, hands-on guide to the changing strategic and tactical realities within peacekeeping deployments, this fascinating set of essays speaks to actual and potential troop contributors, everything you wanted to know about 21st-century peace operations but were afraid to ask. Thomas G. Weiss, The City University of New York, USA Do more with less! Peacekeepers around the world are familiar with such instructions. But what are the consequences of such orders for the ability of missions to implement their mandates and for the UN to exercise its duty of care towards its peacekeepers? This volume provides a timely and useful analysis of these important issues. Paul D. Williams, George Washington University, USA

Mr Nick Nelson is a lecturer with the Centre for Defence and Security Studies, Massey University. He has extensive academic and professional experience in security as well as an academic background in organisational psychology. His research interests lie in the areas of Asia-Pacific security and security psychology. Dr Negar Partow is a Senior Lecturer with the Centre for Defence and Security Studies at Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand. She received her Masters degrees from Iran and New Zealand and completed her PhD in Victoria University of Wellington. Dr Partow is a researcher on Middle East languages, politics, religions, human rights and international security. Dr Anna Powles is a Senior Lecturer with the Centre for Defence and Security Studies at Massey University. She specialises in civil-military relations, peace support operations, security sector development, humanitarian action and conflict with a focus on Southeast Asia and the Pacific. She holds a PhD from Australian National University and is the founder of Women in International Security New Zealand.

Introduction; I: Advancing Unity of Effort; 1: Challenges of 21st-Century Peace Operations in a United Nations Context; 2: Unity of Effort in UN Peacekeeping; 3: Reflections of a UN Commander on Advancing Unity of Effort in Peace Support Operations; 4: Advancing Unity of Effort in Peacekeeping Operations; II: The Challenges for Land Forces; 5: Perspective on the Challenges, Opportunities and Imperatives for Mission Success in Afghanistan and Timor-Leste; 6: The Challenges for Land Forces in Peace Support Operations; 7: Is the Sum Greater than the Parts? The Challenges for Land Forces in Support of Peacekeeping Operations; 8: Current Issues Facing Land Forces and Measures by the UN to Improve Performance; III: Duty of Care: Saving Soldiers; 9: UN Peacekeeping Safety and Security in the 21st Century; 10: Private Battles; 11: Processes to Support Psychological Well-being in Deployed Personnel; 12: Mental Health and Combat Veterans; 13: The Duty of Care and Peacekeeping; IV: Challenges in Sharing the Peace Operations Space; 14: The Sahel Crisis as a Harbinger of Future Peacekeeping Challenges; 15: Local Ownership in the Security Sector Space; 16: Teaming for Success; Conclusion