From Civil Strife to Civil Society
Subtitle: Civil and Military Responsibilities in Disrupted States (Foundations of Peace)
Contributors: William Maley (Editor); C. J. G. Sampford (Editor); Ramesh Chandra Thakur (Editor)
Publisher: United Nations University Press
Published: September 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9789280810707
Subjects: Peace studies; Social work; United Nations & UN agencies; Politics - Current Events; International Relations - General; Conflict management; Politics/International Relations; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Political violence; Peacekeeping forces; International; Civil-military relations; Political Freedom & Security - International Secur; Humanitarian assistance
Description: "The 1990s saw the United Nations, the militaries of key member states, and NGOs increasingly entangled in the complex affairs of disrupted states. Whether as deliverers of humanitarian assistance or as agents of political, social, and civic reconstruction, whether in Somalia, Bosnia, Kosovo, or East Timor, these actors have had to learn ways of interacting with each other in order to optimize the benefits for the populations they seek to assist.

Yet the challenges have proved daunting. Civil and military actors have different organizational cultures and standard operating procedures and are confronted with the need to work together to perform tasks to which different actors may attach quite different priorities."--BOOK JACKET.