Sunday, August 16, 2020

Doss: A Peacekeeper in Africa: Learning from UN Interventions in Other People’s Wars

Alan Doss
has published A Peacekeeper in Africa: Learning from UN Interventions in Other People’s Wars (Lynne Rienner Publishers 2020). Here's the abstract:
Alan Doss offers a rare window into the real world of UN peacekeeping missions in Côte d'Ivoire, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Doss's story is one of presidents and prelates, warlords and warriors, heroes and villains, achievements and disappointments—and innocent people caught in the midst of deadly violence. As he shares his front-line experiences, he reflects on the reasons for successes and failures and on the qualities that leaders need to successfully guide efforts to rebuild peace and prosperity in devastated societies. Not least, he also considers the UN's future role in conflict prevention and peacekeeping in a climate of increasing resistance to intervention in "other people's wars."