ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the practices of peacekeeping and humanitarian relief. The chapter describes changes in peacekeeping practice including their scope as well as their mandates, as well as trends in financing of peacekeeping missions and the role of technology. The chapter provides a summary, similarly, of changes in the field of humanitarian relief, detailing the role of human rights-based approaches, the emergence of new states as significant humanitarian actors, and a more self-reflective, critical approach to humanitarian action. The chapter outlines some policy choices and dilemmas, concerning the decision to use force; the extent to which mixed motives are permissible; and the unintended consequences of providing humanitarian relief. Two cases, East Timor and Cambodia, are described in detail to illustrate these points.
