Chester A. Crocker is research professor of diplomacy at the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, and chairman of the board of directors of the United States Institute of Peace. He was a distinguished fellow at the Institute in 1989-1990. Three Kinds of Critics 1. Somalia discredited peacekeeping 3. Political landescape changed forever 3.
Book explains Why and how a humanitarian mission was broadened.
The United Nations has achieved some dramatic successes in dangerous, complex situations with wide-ranging mandates. Crocker's 12 Recommendations for Future Peacekeeping Missions 1. UN reform 4. 5. coherent command structure 6. Under Article 100 of the Charter, each Member State undertakes to respect the exclusively international character of the responsibilities of the Secretary-General and the staff and to refrain from seeking to influence them improperly in the discharge of their duties.