India and UN Peacekeeping: Through the Prism of Time

Contents: Preface. Introduction. 1. The Custodian Force in Korea. 2. Peace-Making and War-Making in the Twentieth Century. 3. United Nations Force in the Congo. 4. United Nations Peace-Keeping Forces. 5. When Tshombe Led The UN Troops. 6. United Nations Peace Keeping Operations in Former Yugoslavia. 7. UN Peace Keeping - The Naval Dimension. 8. Global Flux and Dilemmas in United Nations Peace Keeping. 9. United Nations Peacekeeping Operations - A Perspective. 10. Peacekeeping in Somalia: An Indian Experience. 11. UN Peacekeeping in the New Millennium. 12. The Challenges of Peacekeeping and Peace Support into the 21st Century: Peacekeeping 2015 – A Perspective. 13. The Challenges of Peacekeeping and Peace Support. 14. Emerging Regional Environment: Perspective for Peacekeeping. 15. Preventive Diplomacy as a Tool. 16. The Role of United Nations in the Maintenance of International Peace and Security. 17. Analysis of the Recommendations of the Brahimi Panel Report. 18. Complex Peace Operations: Traditional Premises andNew Realities. 19. Peace Operations: A Case Study of Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). 20. Peacekeeping and its Challenges. 21. Robust Peacekeeping Operations, Rapid Deployment Capability for the UN: An Indian Perspective. 22. “Op Khukri” – The United Nations Operation Fought in Sierra Leone Part-I. 23. “Op Khukri” – The United Nations Operation Fought in Sierra Leone Part-II. 24. Challenges of Peacebuilding. 25. United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea in Hindsight. 26. Peacekeeping by Regional Organisations. 27. Coercive Air Power and Peace Enforcement. 28. UNMOGIP – A Subcontinental Relic. 29. UN Peacekeeping Operations: Relevance andIndian Contribution? 30. India and UN Peace Operations: Security Sector Reforms. 31. UNPKO and Military Contributions: Challenges and Opportunities for Asia-Pacific Governments. 32. Maintaining International Peace and Security through United Nations Peacekeeping. 33. Decision Dilemma in UN Peacekeeping Operations. 34. China’s Expanding Role in United Nations (UN) Peacekeeping. 35. UN peacekeepers as Hostages: Causes, Existing Frame Work and UN Strategy. 36. Dynamics of the Composition of Troops and Diversity and Military Culture - Views of an Academician. 37. Diversity in UN Peace Operations: A Challenge to Effectiveness. 38. Dynamics of Cultural, Social and Military Ethos – Perspective of an Indian Contingent Commander. 39. Challenges to UN Peacebuilding. 40. Protection of Civilians. 41. Protection of Civilians: Concept and the Core Obligationof the UN. 42. Protection of Civilians: Challenges of Divergent Foci of the Stakeholders. 43. Role of UN Observer Mission: Experience of Cold War Peacekeeping and Relevance in The Ukraine Crisis. 44. Reminiscences on the Evolution of the Women Peace and Security Agenda: The Backstory. 45. More Women in UN Peace operations – An Agenda for New Peace Operations. 46. Challenges of Mission Leadership: Perspective of a former FC and Deputy SRSG (Deputy HoM) of UNMIS. 47. Challenges of Mission Leadership: Perspective of DyHoM and Director of Political and Civil Affairs of UNIFIL. 48. Effectiveness of Protection mandate and Training of Peacekeepers, Lessons from EPON Studies. 49. Operational Art in Peace Operations: Balancing the Peace Triangle. 50. UN Peacekeeping and Conflict Management: Is There an Option for Ukraine?

The articles in this compendium, related to India’s contribution to UN Peacekeeping, are reproduced as were originally published in the past issues of the USI Journal and other USI publications. They shed light on a variety of topics pertaining to the evolution and expansion of India’s contribution to UNPKO over the span of 60 years. Book has reflections of authors on UN peacekeeping missions in Korea, Congo, Yugoslavia, Somalia, Sierra Leone, Ethiopia and Eritrea, and Sudan; but most valuable are compilation of talks by Mr Kofi Annan, the then UN Secretary General, and Mr Lakhdar Brahimi, former Foreign Minister, Algeria and head of Brahimi Panel Report, delivered at the USI of India in 2001. These articles reflect the opinions of the authors at the age and time that they lived and not that of either the editor or the USI.