Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Matter -- Preliminary Material / Nassrine Azimi -- Selected Biographies / Nassrine Azimi -- Foreword / Marcel A. Boisard , Tommy Koh , and Hisashi Owada -- Explanatory Note and Acknowledgements / Nassrine Azimi -- List of Abbreviations / Nassrine Azimi -- 1 The Cambodian Peace Process and the Role of the United Nations / Nassrine Azimi -- 2 The UNTAC Components / Nassrine Azimi -- 3 General Lessons and Recommendations from UNTAC / Nassrine Azimi -- 4 Conclusions / Nassrine Azimi -- 5 UN Peace-Keeping and the New World Disorder / Professor S. Jayakumar -- 6 Message / Dr Boutros Boutros-Ghali -- 7 Message / Samuel R. Insanally -- 8 The Paris Agreements and their Implementation / Yukio Imagawa -- 9 Crafting the Paris Agreements on Cambodia / Sylvie Bermann -- 10 The UN’s Role in Bringing about Peace in Cambodia (An Insider’s View) / Rafeeuddin Ahmed -- 11 The Cambodian Factions in the Democratic Process / Khieu Kanharith -- 12 The Paris Agreements on Cambodia: A Retrospect / Mark Hong -- 13 The UN’s Role in Bringing about Peace in Cambodia (An Observer’s View) / Dr Hrach Gregorian -- 14 Exercising the Transitional Authority / Takahisa Kawakami -- 15 Lessons from Exercising the Transitional Authority / Tan Lian Choo -- 16 The ASEAN Role – A Historical Perspective / Tan Zainal A. Sulong -- 17 The Cambodian Perspective / Prince Sisowath Sirirath -- 18 How the Paris Agreements Affected UNTAC Operations / Nana S. Sutresna -- 19 A Political Analysis of the Cambodian Situation / Ataul Karim -- 20 UNTAC: The Military Component View / John M. Sanderson -- 21 UNTAC’s Civilian Police Operation / Klaas C. Roos -- 22 Refugee Repatriation and Reintegration in Cambodia / Vieira de Mello -- 23 Economics/Rehabilitation / Roger C. Lawrence -- 24 The Protection and Promotion of Human Rights / Dennis McNamara -- 25 UNTAC’s Information/Education Programme / Timothy M. Carney -- 26 Election-Monitoring: Preparation and Conduct / Professor Reginald Austin -- 27 A Legal Perspective on UNTAC – An Overview / Vishakan Krishnadasan -- 28 Drafting the Cambodian Constitution / Tan Boon Teik -- 29 Perspective from the Department of Peace-Keeping Operations (DPKO) / Hisako Shimura -- 30 UNITAR’s Program of Correspondence Instruction (POCI) in Peace-Keeping Operations / Dr Harvey J. Langholtz -- 31 A French Perspective on Peace-Keeping / Xavier Guérin -- 32 Cambodia Today / Benny Widyono -- 33 UNTAC: A Flawed Paradigm/Success / Ken Berry -- 34 UNTAC: A Paradigm for Future UN Peace-Keeping Operations? / John Pace -- 35 UN Peace-Keeping Operations in the Future / Hisashi Owada -- Back Matter -- Annex 1: List of Conference Participants / Nassrine Azimi -- Annex 2: Agenda of the Conference / Nassrine Azimi.

The United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC) was the fruit of many years of negotiations which had resulted in the Paris Agreements on Cambodia, and a sincere attempt to reach out to a country devastated by conflict. The present report synthesises the discussions and papers presented at the `International Conference on the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC): Debriefing and Lessons', organized jointly by the Institute of Policy Studies (IPS) of Singapore and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR). This report reflects as faithfully as possible the analysis and observations of the conference participants, and draws overall lessons and recommendations from that exercise, in the hope that these will be of use in future undertakings of the United Nations. Many reforms have already been initiated at the United Nations Secretariat in the wake of UNTAC. The Department of Peace-Keeping Operations (DKPO) has been strengthened and the Field Operations Division (FOD) integrated into it; the number of staff dealing with political analysis and training has increased; and the involvement of Member States, through secondment and the provisions of national expertise, has become institutionalized.

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