Australian Peacekeeping: Sixty Years in the Field

by Edited by David Horner , Peter Londey , Jean Bou

• ISBN13: 9780521735926
• ISBN10: 0521735920
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-03-23
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Peacekeeping has been a significant part of Australia's overseas military engagement since the end of the Second World War. Yet it is a part of the country's history that has been largely neglected until the 1990s, and even since then interest has been slow to develop. In the last sixty years, between 30,000 and 40,000 Australian military personnel and police have served in more than 50 peacekeeping missions in at least 27 different conflicts. This insightful, engaging and superbly-edited volume approaches Australian peacekeeping from four angles: its history, its agencies, some personal reflections, and its future. Contributors discuss the distinction between peacekeeping and war-fighting, the importance of peacekeeping in terms of public policy, the problems of multinational command, and the specialist contributions of the military, civilian police, mine-clearers, weapons inspectors and diplomats.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Contributors

Introduction

The Historical Record: Inventing peacekeeping

Australian peacekeeping and the new world order

Humanitarian intervention and domestic politics: Australia's decisions to participate in Cambodia, Bosnia, Somalia and Rwanda

Australian peace operations in the South Pacific 1980-2006: from neighbourhood watch to neighbourhood intervention

The Agencies

The Australian Defence Force and peacekeeping Lieutenant General

Foreign affairs and peacekeeping

Full spectrum policing - the Australian Federal Police from peacekeeping to the rule of law Superintendent Tim Dahlstrom and Federal Agent

Non-government organisations and peacekeeping Major General

The Participants

Command in Cambodia - a memoir Lieutenant General

Commanding multinational forces Major General

Landmines, Australians and peacekeeping

Weapons inspection

Observers in UNTSO Keith Howard, Brigadier Paul Symon

Police in peacekeeping - a personal view Commander

International policing - a career opportunity Federal

Future Peacekeeping

Peacekeeping: past experience, future prospects Major General

Peacekeeping: yesterday, today and tomorrow

Appendices

Notes

Index

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