Report in External Series
Trapped in the Peace Process: Ceasefire Monitoring in Sri Lanka
CMI authors:
Ingrid Samset
Thematic research group:
Peace, Conflict and the State
Keywords:
Peacekeeping, peacebuilding, ceasefire monitoring
Geographical keywords:
Southern and Central Asia
Asia: Sri Lanka.
Ingrid Samset (2004)
Oslo: Working Group on Peace Support Operations (AFO), Nordic Research Programme on Security (AFO Paper no. 5) 28 p.
Ceasefire monitoring missions, although central in many post-war transitions, are weakly reflected in the literature on peace operations. This article brings them into the debate, first by relating the notion of ceasefire monitoring to existing conceptualisations of peacekeeping. Secondly it analyses the case of the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission, and finds reason to question both the deterrence effect and the impartiality of this operation. Finally, it argues that if monitors are unlikely to enhance ceasefire compliance, part of the reason is structural - as monitors' short-term aim of promoting compliance tends to clash with their overall purpose of supporting an ongoing peace process.
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Trapped in the Peace Process: Ceasefire Monitoring in Sri Lanka
