A project of the Center on International Cooperation at New York U., with the support of the Peacekeeping Best Practices Section of the United Nations' Department of Peacekeeping Operations, this annual reference compiles statistics and analysis of United Nations and other multilateral military peacekeeping operations around the world. For this edition, the reference includes strategic articles on mediation processes and peace operations partnerships; mission reviews of Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kosovo, Liberia, the Middle East, Sudan, and East Timor; mission notes on Abkhazia-Georgia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Burundi, the Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Côte d'Ivoire, Cyprus, Ethiopia and Eritrea, Haiti, India and Pakistan, Iraq, the Philippines, Moldova-Transdniestria, Nepal, Sierra Leone, the Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Ossetia-Georgia, Sri Lanka, and the Western Sierra. It also includes statistics on the African Union Mission in Sudan, mission-by-mission statistics for the UN, and global statistics on UN and non-UN missions. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Read Less