The course covers the problematic of United Nations Peacekeeping
Operations (UN PKOs), one of the hottest topics in international politics of
the post-Cold War era. Peacekeeping operations have always placed high on the
UN agenda and in the last decade, they have become the most visible of all UN activities.
They have also expanded substantially in terms of their scope and their
mandates nowadays often include various peacebuilding activities. We will cover
the following topics: definitions, taxonomies, history, principles and legal
framework of UN PKOs, principal critiques of UN PKOs in the post-cold war era,
research and analysis of the success of UN PKOs operations in resolving
contemporary conflicts, current and future trends in UN PKOs, other Conflict
Resolution methods available to the United Nations. Since UN is not the only
actor involved in either peacekeeping or peacebuilding, we will also explore
non-United Nations operations.
- Učitel: Oldřich Bureš