Ethnic Conflicts and Peacekeeping

Abstract

The chapter highlights the barriers to managing, resolving, and/or putting an end to ethnic conflict and violence in ethnically divided war-torn societies through peacekeeping operations. It uses the examples of ethnic civil war and United Nations peace operations to present some of the opportunities and challenges faced by operations while dealing with these types of armed conflict. It focuses on preventive and reactive deployment, as well as the location and size of peacekeeping, local conflict, and the coordination and commitment of troops.