INTERNATIONAL PEACEKEEPING AND CONFLICT-RESOLUTION - A TAXONOMIC ANALYSIS WITH IMPLICATIONS

International peacekeeping has undergone some dramatic changes in the past decade. This study represents what is one of the few systematic a ttempts to classify peacekeeping missions according to function. Yet t he authors do not stop their investigation at this juncture. Using a t heoretical framework derived from the scholarly literature on conflict management and resolution, the authors are able to scale different pe acekeeping functions along two dimensions (primary vs. third-party rol es and integrative vs. distributive processes) and understand their in terrelationships. For example, how compatible might be the functions o f traditional peacekeeping with newer roles such as nation building? F rom these results, implications for building theory in peacekeeping st udies as well as more practical concerns, such as how peacekeeping sol diers might be trained for different missions, are discussed.