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UN PEACEKEEPING MISSIONS AND THE SOLVING OF INTERETHNIC CONFLICTS: CASE STUDY OF EASTERN SLAVONIA

Author(s): Ružica Jakešević
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Fakultet političkih znanosti u Zagrebu
Keywords: United Nations; peacekeeping missions; Croatia; UNTAES

Summary/Abstract: The article traces the development of the concept of UN peacekeeping missions from the late 1940s, when they were first applied, to the so-called second generation of peacekeeping missions, which is primarily linked with the 1990s. Designating the changes in carrying out peacekeeping missions as normative, quantitative and qualitative, the author also discusses shifts in the understanding of traditional principles of consent of the parties, impartiality of observers and non-use of force in most cases, which were observed by most peacekeeping missions in the Cold War period. The other focus of this article is the case study of the UNTAES peacekeeping mission carried out from January 15, 1996 to January 15, 1998 in Eastern Slavonia, Sirmium and Baranja, which is considered one of the very rare examples of successful application of the second generation of UN peacekeeping missions, but also of peacekeeping missions in general.

  • Issue Year: XLIX/2012
  • Issue No: 02
  • Page Range: 186-203
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Croatian