The 31 dossier files
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- Character and goals: Election monitoring in South Africa. [Read]
Background to the election monitoring programs Analysis file
- Character and goals: Peace monitoring in Bougainville. [Read]
Background to the Peace Monitoring Mission in Bougainville Analysis file
- Character and goals: Kosovo Verification Mission [Read]
Background to the Kosovo Verification Mission Analysis file
- Character and goals: UN missions in El Salvador and East Timor [Read]
ONUSAL mission in El Salvador and UNAMET mission in East Timor Analysis file
- Activities: Election monitoring in South Africa [Read]
The first and foremost activity of all NGO monitoring teams was to make their presence known by visits to political actors and authorities, and to build contact networks. (1) This was the background against which both their peacekeeping and their peacemaking efforts took place. Challenge file
- Activities: Peace monitoring in Bougainville [Read]
The basic task (1) of the Truce Monitoring Group and its successor, the Peace Monitoring Group, was to patrol the area and investigate breaches of the cease-fire agreement. Challenge file
- Activities: Kosovo Verification Mission. [Read]
The objective was to spread the verifiers all over Kosovo but because of the low build-up of the Mission that objective was only partly reached. Instead, the verifiers often concentrated on those areas from which disturbances were reported (1). Challenge file
- Activities: UN missions in El Salvador and East Timor [Read]
ONUSAL, the UN mission in El Salvador, was engaged in all three peace strategies. Challenge file
- Outcomes and impact of the case studies. [Read]
Analysis file
- Conclusions from the case studies for future large scale interventions [Read]
Analysis file
- Classical peacekeeping and monitoring missions: character, goals, activities, outcomes, impact and conditions for success. [Read]
Analysis file
- Complex missions: character and goals [Read]
Analysis file
- Military activities: an introduction [Read]
Analysis file
- Military activities: outcomes, impact, character and goals. [Read]
Analysis file
- Alternatives to military intervention: What is done by the military that could be done better by civilians? [Read]
Analysis file
- Facing down the guns: When has nonviolence failed? An introduction [Read]
Analysis file
- Facing down the guns: When has nonviolence partially or entirely failed? An overview [Read]
Analysis file
- Facing down the guns: When has nonviolence partially succedeed or entirely succeeded? An overview [Read]
Nonviolent movements that succeeded despite significant deaths Analysis file
- When has nonviolence failed? Some concluding thoughts [Read]
Analysis file
- Civil Peace Services in Europe: an overview [Read]
Analysis file
- Introduction: best practices in field relationship [Read]
Effectiveness in the field depends on positive, creative, and efficient relationships - of the team itself, with other governmental and non-governmental organisations, and with components of the managing organisational governance. Analysis file
- Peace teams: main characteristics [Read]
Analysis file
- Peace teams: Decision-making, communication, composition, behavioural ethics, stressors and other problems [Read]
Analysis file
- Peace teams: Relationship to local groups, INGOs and GOs working in the regions. [Read]
George Willoughby, one of PBI’s founders, admonishes that foreigners cannot know what they can do for a people in conflict. A long-term relationship needs to be formed with groups in a region if intervention is to take place (1). Analysis file
- Peace teams: Relationship with the sending organisation [Read]
Analysis file
- Peace teams: other issues effecting relationship: Entrance to the field, local language, and relations with local government [Read]
Analysis file
- Experiences of larger-scale organisations: an introduction [Read]
Analysis file
- Larger-scale organisations: relationship to local groups, other INGOs and IGOs working in their region, with the international military presence and with the sending organization. [Read]
Analysis file
- Conclusions that Nonviolent Peaceforce drew about large scale nonviolent intervention teams [Read]
Analysis file
- Larger-scale civilian missions: an introduction [Read]
Concept file
- Bibliography for the references in the fiches for dossier ‘Interventions in conflicts’ [Read]
Covering the books, articles and newsletters referenced in the dossier
Interventions in conflicts: large-scale civilian and military based missions and Peace teams
A review of material relating to large-scale interventions in conflict
Brussels 22nd November 2007
Several examples of large-scale civilian, military based and peace missions will be analyzed, highlighting their characteristics and impact. The dossier will be initially developed by analyzing some cases studies of missions in Europe, Africa and Central America. The analysis will further continue by defining the major characteristics of civilian based missions, their aim and the activities undertaken to reach these goals. There will be described the main characteristics of military-based interventions, complex missions and military activities. After having defined the outcomes and impact of these activities, it will be further enquired how nonviolent intervention can be a valid alternative to military action. The analysis will be further developed by describing several case studies where nonviolence has failed, partially failed and succeeded. The role and main characteristics of Peace teams and larger-scale organisations will be defined, in particular concerning their interactions with various types of actors. Among them it will be considered the role of relationships with governmental and non-governmental organisations, and also the role of intra-team communication. As the dossier will highlight, effectiveness in the field will depend on positive, creative, and efficient relationships with these actors.
Authors :
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Christine Schweutzer
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Donna Howard
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Carl Stieren
Adaptation by :
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Rachel Julian
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Mauro Morabito
Link to partners : Nonviolent Peaceforce (NP)