| During the 1990's the United Nations was involved in numerous peacekeeping and humanitarian missions throughout the world. After numerous high profile failures the United Nations needed to find a different way of doing business. In 1999 the circumstances of the Kosovo crisis gave the international community the opportunity to try an ambitious undertaking. With the complete collapse of all forms of governance within Kosovo, peace building or institution building was advocated as a possible panacea. Security sector reform was one of the major priorities: justice, penal, and police institutions needed to be reconstructed.;This paper reflects one aspect of that reform, policing, and addresses an important element in the discussion; Can contemporary policing or 'community-policing' be implemented in a post conflict society? It examines the United Nations intervention strategies and the attempts at community policing initiatives in a post conflict environment, and most recently, the intervention in Kosovo. |
