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Peacekeeping Failures and Successes : Somalia

Black Hawk Down Creates a New and Dangerous Myth of American Nationhood -- [Global Policy Forum] (January 29, 2002) Initially, the US entered Somalia in 1992 to do “God’s work” in a nation devastated by clan warfare and famine. Yet far from resolving the conflict, the US accidentally escalated aggression and transformed UN’s peacekeeping mission into a partisan war. (Added: 14-May-2004 Hits: 325 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It

Humanitarian Intervention: the Case of Somalia -- An annotated resource list from Worldview that emphasizes the problematic side of the UN operation in Somalia. (Added: 19-May-2004 Hits: 416 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It

One Decade Later -- Debacle in Somalia -- This is the transcript of a conference where participants in the peacekeeping mission to Somalia gathered to discuss what went wrong. (Added: 20-Jul-2004 Hits: 284 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It

The Lessons of Somalia: Not Everything Went Wrong -- "The mistakes of the U.S. intervention in Somalia should not obscure its successes: a humanitarian tragedy was averted, and the political landscape was improved." (Added: 20-Jul-2004 Hits: 295 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It

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