The Norma Marion Alloway Library presents our new series The Love of Reading to encourage us to expand our minds.

May 29 is International UN Peacekeepers day and this year the theme is “Women in Peacekeeping“; thus, for this week we explore titles on various aspects of peacekeeping.

Below is a small selection of ebooks  on the subject, “UN peacekeeping“; click on the link for more information. To find additional titles in this subject area, simply enter the subject term into the Library OneSearch box and then refine your search by selecting “ebooks“. Note, you will need to sign on using your TWU login.

Enjoy exploring these ebooks today!

The Failure to Prevent Genocide in Rwanda: The Role of Bystanders /Grünfeld, Fred and Anke Huijboom.
This title speaks about the failure to prevent genocide in Rwanda in 1994. In particular, the research focuses on why the early warnings of an emerging genocide were not translated into early preventative action. The warnings were well documented by the most authoritative source, the Canadian U.N. peace-keeping commander General Romeo Dallaire and sent to the leading political civil servants in New York.

The Fog of Peace: A Memoir of International Peacekeeping in the 21st Century /Guéhenno, Jean-Marie.
This firsthand account speaks to the author’s UN peacekeeping efforts with major crises since the beginning of the 21st century. Guéhenno grapples with the distance between the international community’s promise to protect and illustrates with personal and concrete examples from crises in Afghanistan, Iraq, Congo, Sudan, Darfur, Kosovo, Ivory Coast, Georgia, Lebanon, Haiti, and Syria.

New Models of Peacekeeping Security and Protection of Human Rights: The Role of the UN and Regional Organizations /Caracciolo, Ida and Umberto Montuoro.
This title contains the proceedings of the Workshop on “New Models of Peacekeeping. Security and Protection of Human Rights”, held at the Center for Higher Defence Studies in Rome, from the 10th to the 12th May 2017. The Workshop dealt with two major issues, the new regional models of peacekeeping were examined, and secondly, the adjustment of peacekeeping with respect to the new crisis was debated.

The United Nations and Peacekeeping, 1988-95 /Kertcher, Chen.
This title offers a vivid description of these changes through the analysis of the evolution in the concept and practice of United Nations peacekeeping operations from 1988 to 1995. The research is anchored primarily in United Nations documents, which were produced following the diplomatic discussions that took place in the General Assembly, the Security Council and the UN Secretariat on the subject of peacekeeping in general and in the cases of Cambodia, Former Yugoslavia and Somalia.

The Women in Blue Helmets: Gender, Policing, and the UN’s First All-Female Peacekeeping Unit /Pruitt, Lesley J.
This title tells the story of the first all-female police unit deployed by India to the UN peacekeeping mission in Liberia in January 2007. The author investigates how the unit was originated, developed, and implemented, offering an important historical record of this unique initiative.