Peace operations / Comment
Challenges to Peacekeeping Operations
10/11/2006 By Madalena Mendonça Moita
More than fifty years divide the first peacekeeping operation performed by the United Nations in 1948, the United Nations Truce Supervision Organisation (UNTSO), and the deployment currently being carried out in Lebanon.
This half century of troubled history has required significant changes in matters of security, forcing these missions to be adjusted to a substantially different international framework.
Some books published recently allow taking stock of these years, analysing trends and assessing current and future problems.
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Keywords
Conflict resolution Peace process UNBio author: Madalena Mendonça Moita
Currently undertaking a PhD in Political Conflict and Peace Processes, Faculty of Political Science and Sociology, University Complutense of Madrid; MA in Peace and War Studies in New International Relations, University Autónoma of Lisbon; and BA in Political Science and International Relations, Faculty of Human and Social Sciences, University of New Lisbon. Has been an intern at "Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia"; has had internships as Research Assistant at the international studies centre Observatorio de Relaciones Exteriores of the University Autónoma of Lisbon (January 2003-September 2004); and has held secretarial and receptionist positions, and assistant to the organisation of events and conferences at "Hospedeiras de Portugal" (1998-2001) and "Casa Branca" (2001-2003).
