ABSTRACT
The issues that affect international and regional organisation's capability for carrying out operations of the nature, but overcoming weaknesses in the three areas in particular would contribute significantly to enhancing the effectiveness of international administration. Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) and Department of Political Affairs (DPA) remain fiercely protective of their respective territories, however, and a more sensible measure would be to merge the two into a single department. The rapid and effective deployment of human resources and materiel to a distressed region is vital to the success of any peace operation, but it is particularly important for the international administration of war-torn territories. Conflating international administrations with complex peace operations tends to obscure some of the fundamental political issues at the core of the state-building initiatives. Since the end of the Cold War, the United Nation's and other organisation's assumption of increased responsibility for conflict management has spawned a vast literature concerned with ways of strengthening international.
