This book analyses the new and difficult roles of regional organizations in peacemaking after the end of the Cold War, and features contributions by established scholars and practitioners.

Peter Wallensteen is currently Richard G. Starmann Sr. Research Professor of Peace Studies at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, as well as being Senior Professor, formerly the Dag Hammarskjöld Professor, of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University, Sweden. He is author of many articles, as well as several books, including Understanding Conflict Resolution (3rd edn, 2012), a leading textbook.

Ambassador Anders Bjurner is the former Director General of the Department for European Security Policy (in the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs), Deputy State Secretary for Foreign Affairs, former Representative of Sweden to the Political and Security Committee (PSC) of the European Union and former Chairman of the civil society organization for the CSCE/OSCE. Recently, he was also a Visiting Researcher at the Department for Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, Sweden.

Foreword, Peter Wallensteen and Anders Bjurner Preface, Jan Eliasson, Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations 1. The Challenge of Regional Organizations, Peter Wallensteen and Anders Bjurner 2. International Conflict Resolution, the UN and Regional Organizations. The Balance Sheet, Peter Wallensteen 3. Chapter VIII of the UN Charter: Its Revival and Significance Today, Ambassador Gustaf Lind 4. The United Nations after the Cold War- power, regions and groups, Anders Lidén 5. Collective Security in a Changing Geopolitical Landscape, Inger Österdahl 6. Trends in Conflict Management: Multilateral Intervention and the Role of Regional Organizations, Katarina Engberg 7. On EU Peacemaking - Challenging or Complementing the United Nations ?, Ambassador Anders Bjurner 8. The EU as a Regional Organisation: Effective Multilateralism in Conflict Management, Lars- Erik Lundin 9. From CSCE to OSCE - a Pan-European Organization for Conflict Prevention and its relations to the United Nations, Ambassador Rolf Ekéus 10. African Regional Organizations, Peace Operations and the UN - Legitimacy and Disengagement, Linnea Gelot 11. ECOWAS and the AU in cooperation with the UN - the case of Côte d¿Ivoire , Pierre Schori 12. The Africa Union Mission in Somalia - Toward a New Vision of Regional Peace Keeping? , Ambassador Marika Fahlén 13. The League of Arab States, UN and Regional Security- a Historical Note, Ambassador Stig Elvemar 14. The League of the Arab States, the Gulf Cooperation Council and the Arab Civil Uprising , Michael Schulz 15. Towards Regionalization in the Global Order: The intervention in Libya and the Emerging Global Order , Mikael Eriksson 16. The Future of Regional Organizations, Peter Wallensteen and Anders Bjurner Appendices 1. Text of Chapter VIII of the UN Charter 2. Regional Organizations for Peace and Security: Mandates, Data, Main Activities, Erik Zouave 3. UN and Regional Arrangements Since 1990: Doctrine, Developments, Current Thinking, Katherine Konrad