Privatizing the Democratic Peace: Policy Dilemmas of NGO Peacebuilding

by Henry F. Carey

Book Overview

NGOs have become one of the main instruments in building peace, especially as UN sanctioned peacekeeping missions begin to streamline or withdraw from countries and bilateral peacekeeping sponsored by powerful states. During the last three decades, the UN has relied more and more on NGOs and sub-contractors in peacebuilding. The greater the number of multidimensional challenges and dilemmas that emerge for these NGOs, the more are the sponsoring governments...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403996881
• ISBN13: 9781403996886
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.6"