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Module Title

Contemporary peace keeping and peace making interventions

Module Code LG534
School Law and Government
Module Co-ordinator Dr John Doyle Office Number

Q117

Level 5 Credit Rating 5
Pre-requisite None
Co-requisite None
Module Aims
  • To examine the historical development of peace-keeping in the post World War 2 era.
  • To analyse the challenges faced by traditional peace keeping after the Cold War
  • To analyse the shifts from peace-keeping to peace - enforcement
  • To explore the place of `humanitarian intervention''
  • To analyse the role of the military in peace support operations
Learning Outcomes
  • By the end of the module students should be in a position to place contemporary developments in peacekeeping and peace enforcement in an historical and theoretical framework.
  • Students should be comfortable with using the available on-line databases on the study of conflict.
  • Students should have engaged in at least one case study and presented oral and written outlines of their work.
Indicative Time Allowances
Hours
Lectures 12
Tutorials 0
Laboratories 0
Seminars 12
Independent Learning Time 51
Total 75
NOTE
Indicative Syllabus

The historical development

  • The development of UN `blue helmet'' peace-keeping
  • Historical oddities - Korea and the Congo
  • The end of the Cold War and the wave of UN deployments
  • Peace Enforcement, Somalia and crisis
  • The place of "Humanitarian" intervention in the context of peace support operations

The institutional context

  • The United Nations - the Security Council and Peace Keeping Dept.
  • The role of regional organisations
  • OSCE, NATO, EU
  • African Union
  • Other regional possibilities
  • Great Powers and `peace-keeping'' - the role of the USA

The contemporary role of the military in peace support operations

  • The role of monitors and observers
  • `Petersburg'' Tasks
  • Can peace be `enforced'' ?
  • Civil Military Cooperation
  • Capacity issues and the politics of burden sharing
Assessment
Complete relevant components
Oral Assignment:
20%
Written Assignment 1:
40%
Written Assignment 2:
40%
Indicative Reading List

Bellamy, Alex, Paul Williams and Stuart Griffin. (2004). Understanding peacekeeping Polity Press.
Furley, Oliver and Roy May. Eds. (1999) Peacekeeping in Africa Ashgate,
Hunter, Robert (2002). The European Security and Defense Policy: NATO''s Companion or Competitor? Rand.
Holzgrefe, JL and Robert O. Keohane eds. (2003) Humanitarian intervention :ethical, legal, and political dilemmas . Cambridge University Press.
Leatherman, Janie (2003) From Cold War to Democratic Peace: Third Parties, Peaceful Change, and the Osce . Syracuse University Press.
Macqueen, Norrie (1999). The United Nations since 1945 : peacekeeping and the Cold War . - London : Addison Wesley Longman
Schmidl, Erwin A. ed. (2000) Peace operations between war and peace . London : Frank Cass.
Wheeler, Nicholas (2000). Saving Strangers, Humanitarian intervention in international society . Oxford: OUP.
Woodhouse, Tom Robert Bruce, and Malcolm Dando eds. (1998). Peacekeeping and peacemaking: towards effective intervention in post-Cold War conflicts Basingstoke: Macmillan.
Woodhouse, Tom and Oliver Ramsbotham eds. (2000). Peacekeeping and conflict resolution . London : Frank Cass, 2000.

Programme or List of Programmes

MA in International Relations; MA in Globalisation
MA in International Security and Conflict Studie

Date of Last Revision: November 2004