I. IntroductionOne of the greatest threats to peace lies in the actions of warring actors within a state, who thrive on stoking conflict and fostering chaos. It is therefore imperative to focus on these intra-state and inter-state conflicts to achieve peace and ultimately a successful resolution of these issues. Following such a conflict, the need for peacekeeping appears obvious. The real effectiveness of peacekeeping is a subject addressed by all the authors. Peacekeeping can be an effective tool when used correctly and provided with adequate resources and support. By proving its effectiveness, successes and failures can be used to show how best to use it and the effects of transforming unstable post-war regions into peaceful ones. The size, number and scope of peacekeeping missions around the world have increased significantly in recent decades. . Across the world, international personnel have been deployed to maintain peace in war-torn regions. Virginia Page Fortna in Does Peacekeeping Work? argues that in the periods following civil wars since the Cold War, the most serious conflicts require peacekeeping missions to rebuild and not lose their footing. Expounding this notion, Kyle Beardsley offers a deeper introspection of peacekeeping operations in his book Peacekeeping and the Contagion of Armed Conflict. Offering yet another focused view of peacekeeping, authors Karen A. Mingst and Margaret P. Karns focus on the relevance of the United Nations in this endeavor while Jeni Whalen similarly examines legitimacy, power and success of the Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands (RAMSI). ).II. SummaryAccording to Fortna, peacekeeping is used for both consent-based peace operations and Enf...... middle of paper ......ures to better adapt and adapt their methods for establishing peace and increasing the duration of peace after periods of violence or war.BibliographyBeardsley, K. (2011). “Peacekeeping and the contagion of armed conflicts.” The Journal of Politics 73(4): 1051-1064. Southern Political Science Association. Fortna, V.P. (2008). “Does peacekeeping work? : shaping the choices of the belligerents after the civil war. » Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Mingst, KA and Karns, MP (2007). “The United Nations and conflict management: relevant or not? In C. Crocker, F. Hampson, and P. Aall (Eds.), Leashing the Dogs of War: Conflict Management in a Divided World (pp.497-520). Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace Press. Whalan, J. “The Power of Friends: The Solomon Islands Regional Assistance Mission.” Journal of Peace Research 47(5): 627-637.