Professor Lise Howard Publishes Book on UN Peacekeeping in Civil Wars

Professor Lise Morjé Howard's book, UN Peacekeeping in Civil Wars, was recently published by Cambridge University Press.  Civil wars pose some of the most difficult problems in the world today and the United Nations is the organization generally called upon to bring and sustain peace.  Professor Howard studies the sources of success and failure in UN peacekeeping. Her in-depth analysis of some of the most complex UN peacekeeping missions debunks the conventional wisdom that they habitually fail, showing that the UN record actually includes a number of important, though understudied, success stories. Using systematic comparative analysis, Howard argues that UN peacekeeping succeeds when field missions establish significant autonomy from UN headquarters, allowing civilian and military staff to adjust to the post-civil war environment.  

Professor Howard is Director of the M.A. Program in Conflict Resolution.