ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the United Nations Security Council's (UNSC) actions in Haiti, particularly its members' motives for authorizing the use of enforcement measures to restore Aristide and their response to the challenges of consent. The advance deployment of peacekeepers from the United Nations Mission in Haiti (UNMIH) was effectively forestalled by an angry mob in Port-au-Prince. The ability of the United Nations (UN) to constructively address situations of internal conflict seemed limited by the reliance of peacekeeping on the consent and co-operation of the host parties and the reluctance of UN member states to use coercion in the wake of the Somalia imbroglio. Yet thirteen months later, in January 1995, the situation had come full circle. UNMIH was successfully deployed into a permissive environment following on from an UN-authorized, multi-national enforcement operation called Operation Uphold Democracy. As its name suggests, Operation Uphold Democracy was ostensibly justified as restoring the legitimate, democratically elected government of Jean Bertrand Aristide to power.
