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One way to strengthen the international community and its capacity has been to give more influence to regions around the world. This chapter, published in 2015, builds on an analysis of the 31 regional organizations that have peace and security on their agenda. The UN Charter anticipated the emergence of regional organizations by including them in Chapter VIII. Thus, Peter Wallensteen outlines a “balance sheet” of the advantages and disadvantages for states of using global or regional peace making.
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Republished from Wallensteen, Peter 2015. “International Conflict Resolution, UN and Regional Organizations. The Balance Sheet”, Chapter 2 in Wallensteen, Peter and Anders Bjurner (eds) Regional Organizations in Peacemaking. Challengers to the UN? London: Routledge, 2015. Reproduced with permission. This chapter has benefitted from the comments by Ambassador Anders Bjurner but I remain solely responsible for the contents.
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It became an issue for discussion between the Security Council and the AU presidency in October 2013, see https://www.whatsinblue.org/2013/10/dispatches-from-the-field-annual-consultative-meeting-between-members-of-the-un-security-council-and.php.
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This had actually been the case of a considerable period of time, see Heldt/Wallensteen (2006). However, the UN procedures were often a model for the operations by other organizations.
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Adler/Greve (2009):74f describes how NATO moved into collective security from its previous stance.
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Themnér/Wallensteen (2013a).
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Themnér/Wallensteen (2013b).
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Harbom/Wallensteen (2005).
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Wallensteen, Peter and Margareta Sollenberg 1998. ‘Armed Conflict and Regional Conflict Complexes, 1989–1997,’ Journal of Peace Research, 35: 593–606. Buzan and Waever has a related concept, regional security complexes, see Buzan/Waever (2003).
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The list here is longer than the one used for instance by Kirchner and Dominguez who include ten organizations in their 2011 book and fourteen in their 2013 report.
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See Wallensteen and Johansson in Malone, 2015.
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Wallensteen, P. (2021). International Conflict Resolution, UN and Regional Organizations. The Balance Sheet. In: Peter Wallensteen: A Pioneer in Making Peace Researchable. Pioneers in Arts, Humanities, Science, Engineering, Practice, vol 30. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62848-2_13
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