"Making War and Building Peace" examines how well United Nations
peacekeeping missions work after civil war. Statistically analyzing
all civil wars since 1945, the book compares peace processes that
had UN involvement to those that didn't. Michael Doyle and Nicholas
Sambanis argue that each mission must be designed to fit the
conflict, with the right authority and adequate resources. UN
missions can be effective by supporting new actors committed to the
peace, building governing institutions, and monitoring and policing
implementation of peace settlements. But the UN is not good at
intervening in ongoing wars. If the conflict is controlled by
spoilers or if the parties are not ready to make peace, the UN
cannot play an effective enforcement role. It can, however, offer
its technical expertise in multidimensional peacekeeping operations
that follow enforcement missions undertaken by states or regional
organizations such as NATO. Finding that UN missions are most
effective in the first few years after the end of war, and that
economic development is the best way to decrease the risk of new
fighting in the long run, the authors also argue that the UN's role
in launching development projects after civil war should be
expanded.
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