Path to Srebrenica

<p>In the post-Cold War environment of the 1990s the United Nations (UN) found itself grappling with the means and mechanisms to resolve conflicts that had increasingly shifted from interstate to intrastate hostilities. The thesis examines four faults common to UN peacekeeping and peace enforcement operations in Somalia (UNOSOM) Rwanda (UNAMIR) and Bosnia-Herzegovina (UNPROFOR). During the 1990s UN peacekeeping operations consistently acted with neutrality versus impartiality when confronting forces in grievous violation of the peace process. The UN failed to maintain international political will for its operations thus leading to reduced force structures and reluctance to act decisively. The UN did not preserve the legitimacy for its missions either in the eyes of the peacekeepers or the belligerent parties. Lastly the UN failed to properly ensure unity of effort and unity of command which had a profoundly negative impact on its operations. The result of these errors was the failed humanitarian effort in Somalia (1993) genocide in Rwanda that claimed 800000 lives (1994) and the ethnic cleansing of eastern Bosnia-Herzegovina that climaxed at Srebrenica with the execution of 8000 Muslim men and boys (1995). The final chapter makes several recommendations to prevent further UN failures of this magnitude in the future.</p><p>This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore you will see the original copyright references library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world) and other notations in the work.</p><p>This work is in the public domain in the United States of America and possibly other nations. Within the United States you may freely copy and distribute this work as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.</p><p>As a reproduction of a historical artifact this work may contain missing or blurred pages poor pictures errant marks etc. Scholars believe and we concur that this work is important enough to be preserved reproduced and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.</p><br>