The UN's record in peace operations is long, various, distinguished by both accomplishments and failures, and most importantly, innovative. Unfulfilled expectations and escalating violence in Somalia, Rwanda, and Bosnia forced retrenchment upon UN peace operations_but at the same time, a new opportunity to enhance capacities, review strategies, redefine roles, and reaffirm responsibilities has opened up. Here, a dynamic group of leading diplomats, academics, and journalists combines forces with UN policymakers and leaders including current Secretary-General Kofi Annan and former Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali to explore how the international community can improve its practice in negotiating and implementing peace. They look at what works and what doesn't in UN peacemaking and peacekeeping, and then map out alternative futures for UN action in the 21st century.

Olara A. Otunnu is president of the International Peace Academy Michael W. Doyle is professor of politics and international affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School and director of graduate studies in the politics department of Princeton University, as well as a former vice president and current senior fellow of the International Peace Academy.

Chapter 1 Foreword
Chapter 2 Introduction: Discovering the Limits and Potential of Peacekeeping
Chapter 3 Fifty Years of Peacemaking and Peacekeeping
Chapter 4 Peacemaking and Peacekeeping for the New Century
Chapter 5 Communal Conflict as a Challenge to International Organization: The Case of the Former Yugoslavia
Chapter 6 Preventing Deadly Conflict
Chapter 7 Preventive Action and Conflict Resolution
Chapter 8 Preventive Diplomacy and Peacemaking: The UN Experience
Chapter 9 Peacekeeping, Peace Enforcement and the Use of Force
Chapter 10 Under What Circumstances Should the UN Intervene Militarily in a Domestic Crisis?
Chapter 11 Dabbling in War: The Dilemma of the Use of Force in United Nations Intervention
Chapter 12 Challenges of the New Peacekeeping
Chapter 13 Prospects for a Rapid Response Capability: A Dialogue
Chapter 14 Humanitarian Protection
Chapter 15 Humanitarian Action and Peacekeeping
Chapter 16 Humanitarian Responses to International Emergencies
Chapter 17 Regional Dimensions
Chapter 18 The Failed State and Political Collapse in Africa
Chapter 19 The OAU Role in Conflict Management
Chapter 20 The Contribution of Regional Organizations in Europe
Chapter 21 Peacebuilding
Chapter 22 A Holistic Approach to Building Peace
Chapter 23 Conclusion