Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1968-2001 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
13 boxes (0.13 cubic metres) and 1 outsize box.
Scope and content
Papers relating to international peacekeeping and relief work, 1979-2000, chiefly by the United Nations, including: papers relating to Commonwealth ceasefire monitoring, Rhodesia [now Zimbabwe], 1979-1980; United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Handbook for Emergencies (Geneva, Switzerland, 1982); United Nations Standing Operating Procedures (SOPS), for United Nations missions in Cyprus, 1984, Iraq-Kuwait border, 1991, Cambodia, 1992, and Liberia, 1993; account of Joint Task Force PROVIDE COMFORT for humanitarian relief in Turkey to Kurdish refugees from Iraq, 1991; reports and information bulletins on peacekeeping and relief operations, former Yugoslavia, 1993-1994. United Nations Department of Peacekeeping publications, 1995-1997, including guidelines and handbooks for peacekeeping and policing procedures, and printed maps of disaster relief and peacekeeping operations areas, including Beirut, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Somalia, Uganda, and Zimbabwe. Also NATO peacekeeping guidelines, and United States Army and British Army Field Manuals relating to peacekeeping and general tactical doctrine 1977, 1985, 1993-1995.
System of arrangement
As set out above in Scope and Content.
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born 1944; educated at Loretto School, Edinburgh and Royal Military Academy Sandhurst; commissioned as 2 Lt, 6 Queen's Gurkha Rifles, 1964; Lt, 1966; Capt, 1970; Maj 1976; Churchill College, Cambridge, 1985; Lt Col, 1986; International Staff Officer, Egypt, 1989-1991; PhD, King's College London, 1990; retired from British Army, 1991; Senior Research Associate, Brown University, Rhode Island USA, 1991-1994; Professor, George Marshall Centre, Garmisch, Germany, 1994-1996; Principal Lecturer, Joint Services Command and Staff College, UK, 1996-1998; Senior Research Associate, Centre for Defence Studies, King's College London; 1998
Publications: Editor, A Guide to Peace Support Operations (Watson Institute, Providence, 1986); with Jarat Chopra, The Peacekeepers ; A Draft Concept of Second Generation Multinational Operations (London: Unwin Hyman, 1989); with Jarat Chopra, A Draft Concept of Second Generation Multinational Operations 1993 (Watson Institute, Providence, 1993); A Guide to Peace Support Operation , (Watson Institute , Providence, 1996).
Repository
Custodial history
Placed in centre by Lt Col John C G Mackinlay, 2003.
Conditions governing access
Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification, to include one photographic ID.
Conditions governing reproduction
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied from open material for research purposes only.
Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, via the Archives.
Language of material
- English
- French
Script of material
Uploaded finding aid
Existence and location of originals
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Related materials
Alternative identifier(s)
Subjects
People and Organisations
- Mackinlay, John, b 1944, Lieutenant Colonel (Subject)
- British Army (Subject)
- UN, United Nations (Subject)
- US Army (Subject)
Genre access points
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.
Script(s)
Archivist's note
Compiled by James Pugh, April 2004