The purpose of this research project is to examine the role of conflict resolution
in training programmes for military peacekeepers. It offers a significant
contribution to the conflict resolution literature by providing contemporary
analysis of where further manifestations exist of the links between military
peacekeeping and the academic study of conflict resolution.
The thesis firstly provides a thorough analysis of where conflict resolution
scholars have sought to critique and influence peacekeeping. This is mirrored
by a survey of policy stemming from the United Nations (UN) in the period
1999-2010. The thesis then undertakes a survey of the role of civil-military
cooperation: an area where there is obvious crossover between military
peacekeeping and conflict resolution terminology. This is achieved firstly
through an analysis of practitioner reports and academic research into the
subject area, and secondly through a fieldwork analysis of training programmes
at the UN Training School Ireland, and Royal Military Training Academy
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Sandhurst (RMAS). The thesis goes on to provide a comprehensive
examination of the role of negotiation for military peacekeepers. This
examination incorporates a historical overview of negotiation in the British
Army, a sampling of peacekeeping literature, and finally fieldwork observations
of negotiation at RMAS. The thesis discusses how this has impacted
significantly on conceptions of military peacekeepers from both the military and
conflict resolution fields.
The thesis adds considerably to contemporary debates over cosmopolitan
forms of conflict resolution. Firstly it outlines where cosmopolitan ethics are
entering into military training programmes, and how the emergence of
institutionalised approaches in the UN to ¿human security¿ and peacebuilding
facilitate this. Secondly, the thesis uses Woodhouse and Ramsbotham¿s
framework to link the emergence of cosmopolitan values in training
programmes to wider structural changes at a global level.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:BRADFORD/oai:bradscholars.brad.ac.uk:10454/5330 |
| Date | January 2010 |
| Creators | Curran, David M. |
| Contributors | Woodhouse, Thomas |
| Publisher | University of Bradford, Department of Peace Studies |
| Source Sets | Bradford Scholars |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis, doctoral, PhD |
| Rights | <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-nd/3.0/88x31.png" /></a><br />The University of Bradford theses are licenced under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/">Creative Commons Licence</a>. |
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