About the authors:
Jarat Chopra
Jarat Chopra is research associate and lecturer in international law at the Thomas J. Watson Jr. Institute for International Studies at Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island). He is also director of the institute's Project on Peace-Maintenance Operations. Besides his studies, Jarat Chopra visited numerous peacekeeping and other international operations in the field, in Somalia, El Salvador, Cambodia, Western Sahara, Nicaragua, Namibia and Sri Lanka as well as in the former Soviet Union. Two book on Peace-Maintenance:
The Evolution of International Political Authority and Elements of International Security are forthcoming, while his volume The Politics of Peace-Maintenance was published in 1998. His publications cover a wide range of topics related to international relations and peace-maintenance.
Thomas R. Mockaitis
Dr. Thomas R. Mockaitis is associate professor and chair of the History Department at DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois. He has written extensively on civil conflict, including two books and numerous articles on counterinsurgency. The Society for Army Historical Research awarded his first book, British Counterinsurgency, 1919-1960, the 1990 Templer Medal as the best work on British military history that year. He followed this study with a sequel, British Counterinsurgency in the Post-Imperial Era (1995). Most recently he has expanded his research and writing into the area of peace operations; his book Peace Operations in Civil Conflict: The Sword or the Olive Branch? is to be published in 1998.
Donna Winslow
Dr. Donna Winslow is an award-winning anthropologist and associate professor at the University of Ottawa. She received her PhD from Universite de Montreal and has done field work in Canada and around the world in South East Asia, the South Pacific and Central America. From 1992 to 1997 she served as a technical advisor to the Commission of Inquiry into the Deployment of Canadian Forces to Somalia. She also conducted research for the Commission on military culture, which was published as a book (The Canadian Airborne Regiment in Somalia: A Socio-cultural Inquiry). She is currently conducting research in collaboration with the Department of National Defence on the role of military culture in the breakdown of discipline among Canadian Forces deployed to the former Yugoslavia.
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C.M.P. (Christ) Klep
A historian at the Military History Department of the Dutch Army Staff in The Hague, Drs. Klep specializes in the participation of the Dutch Army in peace support operations. He is currently working on a book on Dutch peace support operations between 1945 and the present (due to be published in 1999).
He is also responsible for the collection of historical data, war diaries and other documents of Dutch units sent abroad for international operations. His publications include books and articles on this subject as well as on military operations in the Netherlands during the Second World War. He lectured at the Department of International Relations of the University of Utrecht and at the Royal Military Academy in Breda.
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