Police and International Peacekeeping Missions

Introduction to International Peacekeeping and Post-conflict Democratic Reform.- Police Reform and Development within the Context of Peacekeeping Deployments.- The Role of the New Zealand Police in International Peacekeeping and in providing Post-conflict Assistance.- The Role of the New Zealand Police in Police Reform and International Peacekeeping in Afghanistan.- New Zealand Police Peacekeeping Operations in Papua New Guinea.- New Zealand Police Rule of Law Reform Efforts in the Solomon Islands.- The New Zealand Police Peacekeeping Deployment in Timor-Leste.- Contributions of the Canadian Police in International Peacekeeping Missions.- The role of police reform in conflict resolution in Ukraine's Donbas Region.- Enhancing law enforcement and criminal justice within Kosovo: Evaluating the challenges in rule of law reform in a post-conflict developing democracy.- Challenges and lessons learned in United Nations Mentoring of local police in Haiti in 2009-2010.- Complex Acculturation -The hidden cultural challenge in United Nations police missions.- Community conflict associated with PTSD and negative outcomes for United Nations police officers.- An Analysis of the Experiences of Police Officers in Post-conflict Peacekeeping Missions: the New Zealand Police Perspectives.- The Policing of Post-conflict Nations and Regions.- Afterword: Final Thoughts about International Policing and Peacekeeping.

Garth den Heyer is a leading researcher in policing and counter terrorism and a Professor at the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Arizona State University. He completed his doctorate at Charles Stuart University in Australia. He was a New Zealand police officer for more than 38 years, retiring at the rank of Chief Inspector. Garth is a qualified economist and econometrician and a mixed-methods researcher whose interests include police organizational reform and performance, police service delivery effectiveness, police response to terrorism, and the militarization of policing. Professor den Heyer has published more than 30 articles and written seven books on a variety of criminal justice and policing topics. He is a member of a number of police advisory committees and editorial boards, and is a senior research fellow with the National Police Foundation (in Washington, DC) and an associate with the Scottish Institute for Policing Research.