Review: Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding: For Humanity

DOI10.1177/002070200105600116
Published date01 March 2001
Date01 March 2001
AuthorBruce Elman
Subject MatterReview
Reviews
But
the
fishery
will
no longer
do
it.
For the
first
time
fish have
to
come
ahead
of
fishermen
in
Canada's
fishery
policy.
As
Blake
warns:
'If
the
stocks
recover
and
we
get
a
second
chance,
it
will
be
our
last.'
WORTHWHILE
INITIATIVES?
Canadian
mission-oriented
diplomacy
Edited
by
Andrew
E
Cooper and
Geoffrey
Hayes
Toronto:
Irwin,
xiii,
116
pp,
$19.95,
ISBN
0-7725-2825-X
The
title
is
taken
from the
well-known
but
apocryphal headline
-
Worthwhile Canadian
Initiative
-
jocularly described
as
the
most
bor-
ing
headline
ever.
The
book,
which
had
its
origins
in
a
workshop
at
the
University
of
Waterloo,
is
a
collection
of
often
intriguing
essays
that
examine
Canadian
initiatives,
from
Team
Canada
to
the
ill-fated
Zaire/Great
Lakes
mission in
Africa
in
1996-7,
from the
attempt
to
mobilize
against
the
Helms-Burton
Act
to
the
development
of
the
Arctic
Council,
from
landmines to
the
Trudeau
peace
initiative.
Claire
Turenne
Sjolander
and
Miguel
de
Larrinaga
take
a
hard
look
at
the
Team
Canada
experience.
'Far
from
the idealistic
vision
of
inter-
national
humanitarian
co-operation
embodied
in
the
land
mines
ini-
tiative, Team
Canada
responds to
the
hard,
rationalist,
business logic
that
imbues
globalization,'
they
write.
'Through
Team
Canada
mis-
sions,
the
state
is
able
to
distance
itself
from
its
responsibility
in
con-
structing
and
expanding
an
economic
system
in
which
social
disloca-
tion
has
become
an
increasingly
prevalent feature.'
The
scepticism
is
refreshing.
PEACEKEEPING
AND
PEACEBUILDING
FOR
HUMANITY
Reflections
of
a
war
crimes
investigator
Richard
J.
Goldstone
New Haven
&
London:
Yale
University
Press,
2000,
xxiv,
152
pp,
us$18.50,
ISBN
0-300-08205-3
T
he
twentieth
century
has
been
marked
by
widespread
human
rights
abuses
and
a
succession
of
violent
atrocities:
the
Holocaust,
the
Killing
Fields
of
Cambodia,
apartheid
in
South
Africa,
ethnic
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