Springer Police and International Peacekeeping Missions: Securing Peace and Post-conflict Rule of Law

This edited volume examines the experiences and the roles of the police deployed on peacekeeping and intervention missions in Afghanistan, Bougainville, Cyprus, Haiti, Kosovo, Namibia, Solomon Islands, Timor Leste, and Ukraine.  Despite the extensive literature that has examined the role of the military in peacekeeping and intervention operations, little literature or information that investigates the role and the work of the police or the methods that they use to assist in the reformation of local police is available. This book provides an overview of the history and role of the police in peacekeeping missions, and discusses the principle factors of police reform and development in post-conflict nations. It includes case studies assessing the background of the conflict and the police deployments, as well as their role, contributions, and achievements. Including two in-depth surveys of police officer experiences on peacekeeping missions, this volume will be of great value to policing researchers and law enforcement leadership, police historians, and students and researchers of post-conflict development. From the Back Cover This edited volume examines the experiences and the roles of the police deployed on peacekeeping and intervention missions in Afghanistan, Bougainville, Cyprus, Haiti, Kosovo, Namibia, Solomon Islands, Timor Leste, and Ukraine. Despite the extensive literature that has examined the role of the military in peacekeeping and intervention operations, little literature or information that investigates the role and the work of the police or the methods that they use to assist in the reformation of local police is available. This book provides an overview of the history and role of the police in peacekeeping missions, and discusses the principle factors of police reform and development in post-conflict nations. It includes case studies assessing the background of the conflict and the police deployments, as well as their role, contributions, and achievements. Including two in-depth surveys of police officer experiences on peacekeeping missions, this volume will be of great value to policing researchers and law enforcement leadership, police historians, and students and researchers of post-conflict development. Examines and critiques approaches to the reform of police organizations in post-conflict nations; Develops detailed case studies of the role of police in international peacekeeping missions and post-conflict assistance; Analyses two extensive surveys of the experiences of police officers deployed to peacekeeping missions. About the Author Garth den Heyer is a leading researcher in policing and counter terrorism and a Professor at the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Arizona State University. He completed his doctorate at Charles Stuart University in Australia. He was a New Zealand police officer for more than 38 years, retiring at the rank of Chief Inspector. Garth is a qualified economist and econometrician and a mixed-methods researcher whose interests include police organizational reform and performance, police service delivery effectiveness, police response to terrorism, and the militarization of policing. Professor den Heyer has published more than 30 articles and written seven books on a variety of criminal justice and policing topics. He is a member of a number of police advisory committees and editorial boards, and is a senior research fellow with the National Police Foundation (in Washington, DC) and an associate with the Scottish Institute for Policing Research.  James F. Albrecht is presently a Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and Homeland Security at Pace University in New York. He served in the European Union Rule of Law Mission (EULEX) in Kosovo (former Yugoslavia) as the Police Chief of the EULEX Police Executive Department, in charge of criminal investigations from 2008 through 2010. He is also a 20-year ve