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Peacekeeping: Australian participation

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Peacekeeping
Online exhibition - Keeping the peace: stories of Australian peacekeepers (2001)

 

Peter Londey, Other people's wars: a history of Australian peacekeeping (Crows Nest, NSW: Allen & Unwin, 2004).
[A narrative history of all Australian peacekeeping operations from 1947 to 2004.]

Rebecca Adams, (ed.), Peace on Bougainville: Truce Monitoring Group (Wellington, NZ: Victoria University Press, 2000). [A collection of articles. including the Agreement establishing the Truce Monitoring Group, a 1997 press release by Francis Ona opposing the TMG and selections from Commanders' diaries.]

Australia Parliament Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australia's participation in peacekeeping (Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1994). [The report of an inquiry required to look specifically at Australia 's participation in terms of defence policy, impact on the Australian Defence Force, non-military organisations, potential regional cooperation and need for change in UN management of these operations. Includes a table of Australia 's participation.]

 Bob Breen, A little bit of hope: Australian Force – Somalia (St. Leonards, NSW: Allen & Unwin, 1998). [An objective analysis of the Australian operation in Somalia. Includes Honours and Awards for Operation Solace, January–May 1993; Australia Force – Somalia Nominal Roll; Nominal list of all personnel on board HMAS Tobruk, glossary, notes, bibliography and index.]

 Bob Breen, Mission accomplished, East Timor: the Australian Defence Force participation in the International Forces East Timor (INTERFET) (St. Leonards, NSW: Allen & Unwin, 2000). [An illustrated account of the operations with a list of awards and commendations.]

Bob Breen, Through Aussie eyes: photographs of the Australian Defence Force in Somalia 1993 (Canberra: Department of Defence, 1994). [Photographs with significant text and some maps outlining the planning for the deployment and the operations by Australians. A list of personnel awarded the Australian Service Medal for the operation is included.]

Kevin Clements & Christine Wilson, (ed.), UN: peacekeeping at the crossroads (Canberra: Peace Research Centre, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, 1994). [Papers from an international seminar to encourage debate and reforms in the methods used by the UN in its peacekeeping role. Includes index.]

Michael W. Doyle, UN peacekeeping in Cambodia: UNTAC's civil mandate International Peace Academy occasional paper (London: Lynne Rienner, 1995). [History and assessment of UNTAC and the factors which produce success or failure in peacekeeping.]

Gareth Evans, Cooperating for peace: the global agenda for the 1990s and beyond (St. Leonards, NSW: Allen &Unwin, 1993). [A comprehensive Australian contribution to An agenda for peace, 1992, a report on the role of the UN.]

John Hunter Farrell, Peace makers: INTERFET's liberation of East Timor : day one in Dili to the border and the Enclave (Rocklea, Qld: Fullbore Magazines, 2000). [An illustrated account which includes the work of Special Forces, Navy Clearance Diving Teams, airfield defence guards and Operation Lavarack.]

Alexander M. Palmer, Australian peacekeepers and peacemakers (Perth: Military Minded, 1996). [Contains an outline of peacekeeping, peacemaking, peace enforcement and training operations. Gives a nominal roll of those who have served in the period 1975 – April 1996 with medal entitlements.]

Viberto Selochan & Carlyle A. Thayer (ed.), Bringing democracy to Cambodia: peacekeeping and elections (Canberra: Australian Defence Studies Centre, Australian Defence Force Academy, 1996). [Assessments written by policy makers involved in the implementation of the democratic process in Cambodia .]

 Hugh Smith (ed.), Australia and peacekeeping (Canberra: Australian Defence Force Academy, 1990). [A collection of articles on the history of Australian peacekeeping and an appendix summary of Australia 's participation in international peacekeeping.]

Hugh Smith (ed.), Peacekeeping: challenges for the future (Canberra: Australian Defence Force Academy, 1993). [Papers from an international conference present a military perspective of peacekeeping operations in Somalia, Cambodia , and the former Yugoslavia. An appendix contains a history of Australia 's involvement in peacekeeping by Lt. Col. Neil James.]

 Hugh Smith (ed.), International peacekeeping: building on the Cambodian experience (Canberra: Australian Defence Force Academy, 1994). [Proceedings of an international conference. In addition to papers assessing the Cambodian deployment, others cover peacekeeping in general, funding, logistics and support for UN operations.]

G. Stuart, Quiet success: Anzacs in Sinai 1982–1986 (Israel: Benesh Advertising, Graphics & Publications, 1986). [A booklet consisting mainly of captioned illustrations but with a one-page outline of the origin of the Multinational Force and Observers and the role of the Australian Rotary Wing Aviation Unit.]

Monica Wehner & Donald Denoon, Without a gun: Australians' experiences monitoring peace in Bougainville, 1997–2001 (Canberra: Pandanus Books, 2001). [A collection of papers providing overviews and background and personal accounts, some from Bougainvilleans. Includes the text of significant documents, and statistics and maps.]