2. Edward Luttwak. “Give War a Chance”, Foreign Affairs,
July/August 1999.; “In Syria, America Loses if Either Side Wins”,
New York Times, 24 August 2013., Monica Duffy Toft. Securing the
Peace: The Durable Settlement of Civil Wars, (Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 2010).
3. Suzanne Werner and Amy Yuen. “Making and Keeping
Peace”, International Organization, vol. 59, no. 02, 2005, pp. 261292.
4. We recognize that contexts and the peace missions performed vary dramatically across conflicts and these might affect
the kinds of outcomes that can be expected.
5. See Jeremy Bentham, An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, (Gloucestershire: Clarendon Press, 1879) and
John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism, Liberty and Representative Government. (Rockville, MD: Wildside Press LLC, 2007) for a discussion
of classical utilitarianism.
6. The description of this perspective is taken from J. Michael
Greig and Paul F. Diehl, “Peacekeeping: A Barrier to Durable
Peace?” The Yale Journal of International Affairs, vol. 7, no. 1, 2012,
pp. 46-53.
7. For example, see Jacob Bercovitch, “Mediation in International Conflict: An Overview of Theory, A Review of Practice”, In
Peacemaking in International Conflict: Methods and Techniques, edited by I. William Zartman and J .Lewis Rasmussen, (Washington:
United States Institute of Peace, 2007).
8. Chester Crocker, Fen Osler Hampson and Pamela Aall.
Taming Intractable Conflicts: Mediation in the Hardest Cases. (Washington: United States Institute of Peace Press, 2004).
9. Boutros Boutros-Ghali. An Agenda for Peace. 2nd edition.
(New York: United Nations, 1995 K