In this new century a rising proportion of the worlds societal wars areending not in victory for one side but in stalemate and negotiated peaceoutside military ... » 

In this new century a rising proportion of the worlds societal wars areending not in victory for one side but in stalemate and negotiated peaceoutside military intervention or both as events in Afghanistan Bosnia andHerzegovina East Timor and Sierra Leone have borne witness. Additionally arising number of soldiers police officers and other personnel from theinternational community have helped wardamaged lands regain their footingthrough peace operations run by the United Nations NATO and otherorganizations. After ten years of sustained effort what has been accomplishedand what lessons have been learned? This volume the third in a sequence onpeacekeeping and postconflict security edited by William J. Durch addressesthese questions through focused structured case studies of operations in theabove four countries the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Kosovo. Thecommon structure walks the reader into and through the problems that havedriven each conflict and the solutions derived to deal with them. The focus ison how peace operations work and why they succeed fail drift or recover. Theeditor and case authors provide constructive and practical guidance for futureoperations anticipating how international peace support its objectives andits participants may change in the years ahead. This accessible insightfuland superbly edited volume is sure to be widely read by scholars analysts andpractitioners alikeand will no doubt be regarded as the single most importantsource for data on and analysis of these important missions. TwentyfirstCentury Peace Operations is a joint publication of the Henry L. Stimson Centerand the United StatesInstitute of Peace. «