Keeping watch : monitoring, technology and innovation in UN peace operations / A. Walter Dorn

Introduction: Technology for peace -- The evolution of peace operations -- Monitoring : the constant need -- Survey of monitoring technologies -- Aerial surveillance : eyes in the sky -- Traditional peacekeeping : cases -- Multidimensional peace operations : cases -- Current UN standards : starting from near zero -- Challenges and problems -- Recommendations -- Conclusions.

xxv, 273 p.

On cover: Foreword by LGen The Hon Roméo A. Dallaire (Ret'd).
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Appendices (p. 213-242): 1. United Nations peacekeeping operations, 1948-2010, organized into four categories -- 2. Special Committee on Peacekeeping (C34) annual reports : excerpts on monitoring and surveillance technology -- 4. Possible sensing technologies for peacekeeping -- 4. Summary of the benefits of various monitoring technologies -- 5. Summary of current and potential monitoring technologies in UN peacekeeping -- 6. Unattended ground sensors : summary of a survey -- 7. Bibliography on monitoring technology for UN operations.

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