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Somalia and Operation Restore Hope

Somalia and Operation Restore Hope

Reflections or Peacemaking and Peacekeeping

by Robert OakleyJohn Hirsch and Chester A. Crocker
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Publication Date: 01/06/1995

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The Los Angeles Times describes this volume as one of the two most important postmortems written since the United Nations dismantled its troubled and lamented mission to Somalia. Somalia has become a symbol for the unacceptable costs of humanitarian intervention, for the type of foreign involvement that should be avoided. But the authors of this timely book, themselves key participants in the U.S.-led operation there, argue that substantial good was done the tide of famine was stayed, hundreds of thousands of lives saved, and steps toward political reconciliation begun. Despite the recent renewal of political violence, the humanitarian situation remains stable.In launching Operation Restore Hope, the multinational coalition faced a complex, tense, and rapidly unfolding situation. The authors detail how the carefully limited mission achieved its goals, including mutual understanding with the Somalis, by combining political, military, and humanitarian actions. But the authors also describe how different U.S. and UN concepts of the mission and subsequent changes in the mission s scope led almost inevitably to confrontation."
ISBN:
9781878379412
9781878379412
Category:
International relations
Format:
Book
Publication Date:
01-06-1995
Language:
English
Publisher:
United States Institute of Peace Press (USIP Press)
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
228.6x152.4mm

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