From Peacekeeping to Peace Enforcement: The UN Operation in Somalia
- 1 September 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Journal of Modern African Studies
- Vol. 32 (3) , 387-410
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022278x00015159
Abstract
[Peacekeepers] shouldnot…have the obligation, the soldiers, or the equipment to engage violators in hostilities. International peacekeeping forces express and facilitate the erstwhile belligerents' will to live in peace; they cannot supervise peace in conditions of war. Turning them into a fighting force erodes international consensus on their function, encourages withdrawals by contributing contingents, converts them into a factional participant in the internal power struggle, and turns them into targets of attack from rival internal factions.Keywords
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