The Long Search for Peace: Volume 1, The Official History of Australian Peacekeeping, Humanitarian and Post-Cold War Operations
Observer Missions and Beyond, 1947–2006

The Long Search for Peace recounts Australian peacekeeping missions that began between 1947 and 1982 and follows them to 2006.

Peter Londey (Author), Rhys Crawley (Author), David Horner (Author)

9781108482981, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 9 October 2019

940 pages, 6 b/w illus. 130 colour illus.
25.2 x 17.6 x 5.5 cm, 1.94 kg

Volume I of the Official History of Australian Peacekeeping, Humanitarian and Post-Cold War Operations recounts the Australian peacekeeping missions that began between 1947 and 1982, and follows them through to 2006, which is the end point of this series. The operations described in The Long Search for Peace - some long, some short; some successful, some not - represent a long period of learning and experimentation, and were a necessary apprenticeship for all that was to follow. Australia contributed peacekeepers to all major decolonisation efforts: for thirty-five years in Kashmir, fifty-three years in Cyprus, and (as of writing) sixty-one years in the Middle East, as well as shorter deployments in Indonesia, Korea and Rhodesia. This volume also describes some smaller-scale Australian missions in the Congo, West New Guinea, Yemen, Uganda and Lebanon. It brings to life Australia's long-term contribution not only to these operations but also to the very idea of peacekeeping.

Part I. Actor and Observer: the Early Cold War Years: 1. The origins of peacekeeping: Australia responds to the post-war world
2. St George and the Maiden: Australian and the Indonesian question, 1945–1947
3. Inventing peacekeeping: the United Nations in Indonesia, 1947–1948
4. Failure: the United Nations in Indonesia, 1948
5. Success: the United Nations in Indonesia, 1949–1951
6. Observing at a critical moment: Australia and Korea, 1947–1953
7. An intractable dispute: Australia and the Kashmir problem, 1947–1951
8. 'Tough men wanted': Australian military observers in Kashmir, 1951–1971
9. Australia and the problem of Palestine: peacekeeping in the Middle East, 1947–1967
10. The Six-Day War and after: Australians in the Middle East 1967–1973
11. 'If you're not confused, you don't understand the situation': Australia responds to the Congo Crisis, 1960–1961
12. Over jungle and swamp: Australian Army helicopters in West New Guinea, 1962–1963
13. A reluctant start: the road to Cyprus, 1964
14. The first decade: Australian police in Cyprus, 1964–1974
15. Australia and the invention of peacekeeping
Part II. New Ambitions: the Later Cold War Years: 16. The new internationalists: peacekeeping after the Vietnam War, 1972–1987
17. A 'lop-sided' umpire: Australian military observers in Kashmir, 1971–1985
18. 'Snow Goose' and the 'Milk Run': RAAF transport support for UNMOGIP, 1975–1978
19. An island divided: AUSTCIVPOL in Cyprus, 1974–1976
20. Desert sortie: United Nations Emergency Force II, 1976–1979
21. On the Golan: Australian military observers in Israel and Syria, 1973–1989
22. Witnesses to civil war: Australian military observers in Lebanon, 1972–1989
23. Fumbling the political football: multinational force and observers, 1982–1986
24. The tribe that lost its head: finding a resolution in Rhodesia, 1979
25. Into Africa: deploying the force to Rhodesia: 197901980
26. A dangerous but crucial mission: monitoring in Rhodesia, 197901980
27. The healing touch: Elections in Rhodesia, 1980
28. 'The only show in town': Commonwealth Military Training Team – Uganda, 1982–1984
Part III. Carrying on: after the Cold War
29. A sustained commitment: AUSTCIVPOL in Cyprus, 1974–2006
30. Uprisings and wars: Australians in UNTSO, 1990–2005
31. Service in the Sinai: Australia and the MFO, 1993–2006
32. In the midst of war: Australians in Lebanon, 2006.

Subject Areas: Military history [HBW], Australasian & Pacific history [HBJM], History [HB]