Publication

This study examines the impact that police, justice and corrections components in UN peace operations have on the areas in which they work. It finds that while certain tasks may always be needed, their implementation is often dependent on characteristics of a mission's operational environment over which the mission cannot exert direct control. Missions face perhaps irresolvable dilemmas in being asked to deploy quickly into places where politics can prevent the quick actions that peace building precepts dictate, or with resources inadequate to substitute for capacities that government lacks.