| dc.description.abstract | This study appreciates that peace keeping has been applied by the UN and other regional organisations as a tool of conflict management in conflict prone environment. The post cold war era has seen an evolution in peace keeping operations owing to the change of the nature of conflict from interstate to intra state, multiplicity of actors ,complexity of the conflict to name but a few. This study is alive to a wide range of research conducted on the subject of peace keeping operations, hence the focus on administration of peace keeping operations with case study of the Kenya Defence Forces. This is informed by the fact that a mission mandate cannot be effectively implemented without a commitment on the part of the TCC and specifically the Armed Forces and which commitment is demonstrated in terms of provisions of resources to facilitate the deployment of troops in a given mission area.
It is against this back ground that this study examines the various tenets of administration of a peace keeping operation and the obligations of a contributing country. These are the process leading to peace keeping operations, negotiations of the requisite documentation before deployment of troops, predeployment programmes, selection of troops, reimbursement by the UN, pay and allowances, command and control in the mission area, food and accommodation, recreational facilities to name but a few.
This study further demonstrates that proper administration of a peace keeping operation which involves the contributing country.' cutting its right piece of cloth' by negotiating the appropriate documentation to govern the relationship between itself and the UN before deploying its troops does have a great impact on the performance of the peace keepers and the overall success of the mission. | en_US |
