Third-party peacemaking is common and comes in many shapes and forms. Research has found that in the context of emerging intrastate armed conflicts some peacemaking tools are more efficient that others, whereas some are even detrimental in terms of reaching a negotiated end (Heldt, 2008b). One...

United Nations peacekeeping operations (PKOs) in intrastate conflicts have historically been much more war prone than PKOs in interstate conflicts. On the basis of this and other pieces of evidence, PKOs in intrastate conflicts are commonly claimed to have an inherently lower success rate than...

Research has attempted to explain why some peacekeeping missions fail, while others succeed. By success is in this paper meant the absence of war during the deployment of the peacekeeping mission. The research is characterized by the case study approach aiming at learning lessons from past...

These are the conference proceedings for the International Conference on Conflict Management and Conflict Prevention: Lessons Learned and Best Practices from the Western Balkans which was held in Stockholm 8– 9 October 2003. The conference was organized by the Folke Bernadotte Academy in...