All Publications by William Durch
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UN Police, Justice and Corrections Programming: Summarizing Recent Practice
Case studies for nine UN complex operations and special political missions were developed by Stimson at the request of the Office of Rule of Law and Security Institutions (OROLSI) of
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Understanding Impact of Police, Justice and Corrections Components in UN Peace Operations
The UN Security Council is sending record numbers of personnel into peace operations of growing complexity in environments where critical government functions, including criminal
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Understanding Impact of Police, Justice and Corrections Components in UN Peace Operations
Over the last decade or so, the UN Security Council gave complex UN peace operations broader mandates in police development, followed by mandates to help restore criminal justice
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Stimson Experts Respond to Events in Libya
Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon is sending his special envoy for Libya, Abdel-Elah Al-Khatib, and his special adviser on post-conflict planning for Libya, Ian Martin, to Doha,
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Libya: Predation, Protection and Political Change
On March 17th, the UN Security Council authorized “all necessary measures…to protect civilians and civilian populated areas under threat of attack in the Libyan Arab
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Supporting Peace: The End
Stimson Senior Associate William Durch contributed an article, "Supporting Peace: The End," to National Defense University's journal Prism. This article focuses on exit strategies
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Challenges of Strengthening the Protection of Civilians in Multidimensional Peace Operations
Over the last decade, UN peacekeeping operations have more frequently been deployed into complex environments where there is little but an unstable peace to keep and where former
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Enhancing United Nations Capacity to Support Post-Conflict Policing and Rule of Law
Revised and updated in 2010 by editors William Durch and Madeline England
This report provides an overview of recent trends in the use of police in UN peacekeeping missions, assesses
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Post-Conflict Borders and UN Peace Operations
This border security study from the Future of Peace Operations (FOPO) program is in two parts. For part one, author Kathleen A. Walsh surveyed more than 100 international border
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Security Sector Reform Best Practices and Lessons Learned Reference Spreadsheet
FOPO, at the request of the Security Sector Reform (SSR) Unit in UN DPKO's Office of Rule of Law and Security Institutions, has collected and analyzed good practices in six key areas
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International Police: Improving Effectiveness and Responsiveness
The growing numbers of international police authorized by the Security Council to serve in UN peace operations attest to a recognition of the importance, and challenge, of fostering
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Ending Impunity: New Tools for Criminal Accountability in UN Peace Operations
One of the most challenging problems for building the rule of law in post-conflict states has been establishing effective criminal accountability for personnel serving in UN peace
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Improving Criminal Accountability in United Nations Peace Operations
In 2004, major problems of sexual exploitation and abuse by UN peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and other operations became a public scandal for the United
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Ending Impunity for Peacekeepers
In the wake of rapid growth in UN peace operations, 2003–04, came reports of serious criminal abuse by peacekeepers, starting with the UN mission to the Democratic Republic of Congo
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Presidential Inbox 2009: The First 100 Days
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The first 100 days of any administration are filled with tough choices
and breaks from past policies. This administration is no different. In
the lead-up to the election, Stimson -
The Purposes of Peace Operations
Fifteen years ago, peacekeeping was doctrinally and operationally segregated from war-fighting by major powers, but recent evolution of major power doctrines suggests that the old
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Peacekeeping Dues and Don’ts: A Checklist for the Next President
By Dr. William J. Durch
The Challenge
While America can act on its own in many matters of peace and security, even a superpower has finite resources as the cases of Iraq and
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Post-Conflict Policing and Rule of Law: The Case for UN Reform
There are currently 17 United Nations peacekeeping operations deployed around the world helping to foster sustainable peace, rebuild shattered states, and promote human rights and
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From Timor-Leste to Darfur: New Initiatives for Enhancing UN Civilian Policing Capacity
As peacekeepers have deployed at unprecedented levels worldwide, the demand for police to serve in such missions has swelled.The United Nations (UN), for example, has increased the
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TIMN is Everything: A Framework for Improving Post-Conflict Peacebuilding
We know that the human brain has grown over time, adding emotional reflexes, a sense of personal identity, and fully rational thought to basic motor control, physically layering
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Reflections on War and Peacebuilding
Peace operations most often fail when an unsustainable, rushed peace agreement, election, or constitution locks new governments into structures that may not be appropriate to their
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The Partnership Imperative: Maintaining American Leadership in a New Era
Since the early 1990s, US foreign policy has been trying to cope with march of technology, explosion of global markets, growth of population, and decay of the global environment. It
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Mapping and Fighting Corruption in War-Torn States
A new Future of Peace Operations Program (FOPO) study, Mapping and Fighting Corruption in War-Torn States, examines corruption in war-torn states and summarizes best practices for
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Twenty-First-Century Peace Operations
Edited by William J. Durch
"The publication of William J. Durch's third in a series of books on peacekeeping is a much-anticipated event. The carefully researched case studies, tied
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Who Should Keep The Peace?
Maintaining peace has traditionally been the job of nations but, as populations grow, distances shrink, borders leak, and belief systems clash, it has increasingly become a
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Economic Impact of Peacekeeping
FOPO co-director William Durch is the co-author of Economic Impact of Peacekeeping, a ground-breaking and detailed study of peacekeeping operations’ effects on the war-torn economies
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Building a Better Peace Operation: Lessons from the Brahimi Report Process
Prepared for the United Nations Foundation by William J. Durch
As the work of the UN’s High-Level Panel on Threats Challenges and Change began in early 2004, Durch was invited by the
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The Brahimi Report and the Future of UN Peace Operations
Three years ago, the Panel on UN Peace Operations challenged the international community to strengthen and revitalize UN peace operations. The landmark “Brahimi Report” recommended
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Picking Up the Peaces: The UN’s Evolving Postconflict Roles
… Read More »This article, which uses Iraq to illustrate UN capabilities in post-conflict settings, was sent to press one month before the truck-bombing of UN headquarters in Baghdad. It
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Security and Peace Support in Afghanistan: Analysis and Short- to Medium-Term Options
This briefing applies to Afghanistan the strategic lessons learned from international peace implementation efforts in nearly twenty war-torn countries around the globe over the past
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New Angles on Iraq: Views of the Stimson Center’s Experts
The Henry L. Stimson Center presents a collection of short essays on various aspects of the Iraq policy challenge prepared by our experts. We have drawn on the Center’s distinct
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Searching for National Security: Threat and Response in the Age of Vulnerability
This paper looks at national security perceptions and policy in an age where well-known interstate threats have faded away. In their stead are a growing array of vulnerability-based,
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Alternating Currents: Technology and the New Context for U.S. Foreign Policy
Brian Curran, William Durch, and Jolie Wood discuss how the forces of technology (in information, military affairs, the environment, and public health/emerging diseases) are
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UN Peacekeeping, American Policy, and the Uncivil Wars of the 1990s
Edited by William J. Durch
This book evaluates American policy toward peacekeeping in the mid-1990s, and presents detailed case studies of UN operations in Angola, Cambodia, El
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The American Military in the Twenty-first Century
By William J. Durch, Barry M. Blechman, David R. Graham, John H. Henshaw, Pamela L. Reed, Victor A. Utgoff, Steven A. Wolfe
With the breakup of the Soviet Union, the U.S. military
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The Evolution of UN Peacekeeping: Case Studies and Comparative Analysis
Edited by William J. Durch
This is the first comprehensive post-Cold War assessment of this important tool of conflict containment, its rapid growth and development, the factors that
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Keeping the Peace: The United Nations in the Emerging World Order
The final report of the Center's first peacekeeping project detailed UN procedures political, financial, and logistical for setting up and running peacekeeping operations and, on the
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