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Conflict prevention is a fundamental, if often elusive task of the United Nations. As shown by Edwin Smith in chapter 3 of this volume, the collective security system set out in the UN Charter has not functioned for most of the organization’s history. Peacekeeping emerged as a vital tool for maintaining international peace and security, reflecting the failure of international efforts to prevent conflict. On 11 December 1992, Security Council Resolution 795 authorized the first ever preventive deployment mission of UN peacekeepers. This mission went to the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, which was not yet a UN member state.1 This unprecedented decision marked a new beginning for the United Nations. The world organization had discovered a new formula with great potential for strengthening its role in reducing the human toll and cost of international crises around the world.
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Misha Glenny, ‘The Birth of a Nation’, The New York Review of Books (16 November 1995) p. 24.
The history of the disintegration of the former Yugoslavia is well documented. See Misha Glenny, The Fall of Yugoslavia: The Third Balkan War, revised and updated edition ( New York: Penguin Books, 1993 );
Robert D. Kaplan, Balkan Ghosts: A Journey through History ( New York: Vintage Books, 1993 );
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Clive Archer, ‘Conflict Prevention in Europe: The Case of the Nordic States and Macedonia’, Conflict and Cooperation, Vol. 29, No. 4 (1994), p. 376.
UNPROFOR FYROM Command, Statement to the Press, Skopje, 18 February 1995.
Bo Wranker, ‘Preventive Diplomacy: Military Component’. Paper presented to the International Workshop on An Agenda for Preventive Diplomacy: Theory and Practice, Skopje, 16–19 October 1996.
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Williams, A. (2001). The United Nations and Preventive Deployment in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. In: Knight, W.A. (eds) Adapting the United Nations to a Postmodern Era. Global Issues Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780333977774_6
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