Pouligny, Béatrice. <br/><br/>
Peace operations seen from below :  UN missions and local people / 
Béatrice Pouligny. 
 - Bloomfield, CT :  Kumarian Press,  2006. 
 - xxv, 295 p. :  ill., maps ;  22 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-288) and index. 
<br/><br/>The new forms of peace operations -- International visions of war and peace -- Local geography of UN peace operations -- The sphere of political, military, and economic entrepreneurs -- Indigenous 'civil societies' -- 'Local' employees of UN operations -- Different interpretations of a peace operation's mandate -- Missions' (in)capacity to carry out their mandates -- Peacekeepers lost in complex environments -- The history of relations with the outside world -- Figures of intervention -- Factors of mobilisation against the UN -- Ideas of 'legitimacy' and 'impartiality' redefined by local conditions -- What local actors expect from the UN -- Highly volatile balance of power -- Neither 'indifferent' nor 'apathetic' : why local communities protect themselves from the peacekeepers -- The limits of imposed 'procedural democracy' in post-war societies -- The political non-sense of most economic reconstruction programs -- Ambiguities of peacekeepers' role in maintaining 'law and order' -- The forgotten dimensions of 'justice' and 'reconciliation' programs. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1565492242 (pbk : alk. paper) 9781565492240 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2006005799 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>United Nations--Peacekeeping forces.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Peacekeeping forces--Moral and ethical aspects.<br/>Humanitarian assistance.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>JZ6374  / .P6813 2006 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>341.5/84