Peacekeeping in a Turbulent World: Experiences of Recent Peace Operations from a Swedish Perspective

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Notes

1. For a typology of peace operations see for example Trevor Findlay, The Use of Force in UN Peace Operations (Oxford: Oxford University Press).

2. Charter of the United Nations, Chapter 1, Article 1. The purposes of the United Nations are: To maintain international peace and security, and to that end: to take effective collective measures for the prevention and removal of threats to the peace, and for the suppression of acts of aggression or other breaches of the peace, and to bring about by peaceful means, and in conformity with the principles of justice and international law, adjustment or settlement of international disputes or situations which might lead to a breach of the peace.

3. Compare with Franz Kernic and Harald Haas, Warriors for Peace (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1999).

4. See, for example, Trevor Findlay, ‘The New Peacekeepers and the New Peacekeeping’, in Challenges for the New Peacekeepers, ed. Trevor Findlay (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996), pp. 1–31.