NGO's roles in the Humanitarian Interventions and Pace Support Operations

This chapter analyses the participation of NGOs in humanitarian intervention and peace operations. Knowledge about this area of action is of great importance to understand both the international role(s) of the NGOs and the transformation of the nature, composition, and actions of multilateral peace missions. In section one, NGOs are examined as actors whose international role has been institutionalized by the United Nations (UN), namely by means of the well-known consultative status procedure. In section two, the NGOs increasing participation in the management of civil conflicts is highlighted as the factor enhancing their role in the affirmation of the principle of humanitarian intervention. NGOs specific roles in multilateral security are also defined and explored in this section. NGOs are recognized as actors exercising the knowledge-provider, peace-facilitator, and voice-articulator role. In section three, NGOs effective actorness and roles are empirically tested by analysing their participation in the UNPREDEP mission in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), as well as the Artemis mission deployed by the European Union in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the framework of European Security and Defence Policy.