Evaluating Peacekeeping Missions: A Typology of Success and Failure in International Interventions by Sarah-Myriam Martin- Brule

Author:Sarah-Myriam Martin- Brule [Brule, Sarah-Myriam Martin-]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: International Relations, Peace, Political Science, Security (National & International), General
ISBN: 9781317268628
Google: lZuuDAAAQBAJ
Goodreads: 31148251
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-07-15T00:00:00+00:00

For Draman and Carment (2003: 17), ECOMOG’s intervention in Liberia succeeded in preventing the situation from degenerating into the sort of genocidal slaughter that took place between April and July 1994 in Rwanda, making it comparable to UNOSOM II in terms of success. Other analysts argue that ECOMOG was a greater success than UNOSOM II. For instance, President Sawyer pointed out that ‘[it] took 28,000 U.S. troops in Somalia to distribute food. We have here less than 10,000 ECOMOG forces, assaulted by a force in Taylor’s estimate of 30–70,000, whose purposes are known to everybody’ (cited in Human Right Watch, 1993).

ECOMOG proved efficient on the political level, because of its ability to bring the disputants together to discuss the terms of a peace agreement. But the peace agreements that were brokered did not hold:

Between February 1990 and August 1995, Liberia’s combatants signed and subsequently ignored, thirteen peace agreements. That time period saw the birth of new factions, including the United Liberation Movement of Liberia for Democracy (ULIMO) and the Liberian People’s Council (LPC), and the demise of others, such as INPFL which ceased operations in late 1992.

(Maraia, 1997: 5)5

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