Peacemaking and Peacekeeping for the New Century

The UN's record in peace operations is long, various, distinguished by both accomplishments and failures, and most importantly, innovative. Unfulfilled expectations and escalating violence in Somalia, Rwanda, and Bosnia forced retrenchment upon UN peace operations -- but at the same time, a new opportunity to enhance capacities, review strategies, redefine roles, and reaffirm responsibilities has opened up. Here, a dynamic group of leading diplomats, academics, and journalists combine forces with UN policy makers and leaders including current Secretary-General Kofi Annan and former Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali to explore how the international community can improve its practice in negotiating and implementing peace. They look at what works and what doesn't in UN peacemaking and peacekeeping, and then map out alternative futures for UN action in the 21st century.

Kofi A. Annan was elected secretary-general of the United Nations on 17 December 1996 to serve a five-year term of office. A national of Ghana, he took up the post after more than three decades of high-level service with the world organization Boutros Boutros-Ghali was secretary-general of the United Nations from 1992 to 1997 Michael W. Doyle is director of the Center of International Studies and professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University Jan Eliasson is state secretary for foreign affairs of Sweden Gareth Evans is former foreign minister of Australia and now deputy leader of the opposition Thomas M. Franck is the Murry and Ida Becker Professor of Law and director of the Center for International Studies at New York University School of Law Francois Heisbourg is senior vice president, Matra Defense/Espace in Paris Ismat Kittani is special adviser to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and formerly special adviser to UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali Nelson Mandela has been president of the Republic of South Africa since May 1994 Ali A. Mazrui is director of the Institute of Global Cultural Studies and Albert Schweitzer Professor in the Humanities at State University of New York at Binghamton and also Senior Scholar at Cornell University and the Albert Luthuli Professor-at-Large at the University of Jos in Nigeria Edward Mortimer is foreign affairs editor of the Financial Times. Sadako Ogata has been United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees since 1991 Olara A. Otunnu is president of the International Peace Academy and Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict Adam Roberts has been the Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at Oxford University and Fellow of Balliol College since 1986 John Roper is a professor at the College of Europe in Bruges and has been an Associate Fellow of the Royal Institute of International Affairs, London, since 1995 Salim Ahmed Salim was reelected secretary-general of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) for a third term in June 1997 J. M. Sanderson is chief of army, Australian Defence Force Brian Urquhart served in the United Nations Secretariat from 1945 to 1986 and was under-secretary-general for Special Political Affairs from 1974 to 1986. From 1986 to 1995, he was Scholar-in-Residence at the Ford Foundation