I. IntroductionOne of the greatest threats to peace are the actions of belligerent actors in a state, who thrive on generating conflict and espousing chaos. It is imperative, therefore, to focus on such intra-state and inter-state conflicts to bring peace and ultimately a positive resolution to these issues. Following this conflict, the need for peacekeeping is evident. How effective peacekeeping actually is is a topic that all authors discuss. Peacekeeping can be an effective tool if properly employed and with adequate resources and support. In demonstrating its effectiveness, the successes and failures can serve to show how to best employ it and the effects of changing unstable post-war regions into peaceful ones. The size, number and scope of peacekeeping missions around the world have increased substantially in recent decades. . Around the world, international personnel have been deployed to maintain peace in war-torn regions. Virginia Page Fortna in Does Peacekeeping Work? argues that in the periods following civil wars since the Cold War, the most serious conflicts require peacekeeping missions to rebuild and not lose balance. Expounding on this concept, Kyle Beardsley offers further insight into peacekeeping operations in his book Peacekeeping and the Contagion of Armed Conflection. Offering yet another focused view of peacekeeping, authors Karen A. Mingst and Margaret P. Karns focus on the importance of the United Nations in this effort while Jeni Whalen similarly examines the legitimacy, power, and success of Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI).II. SummaryAccording to Fortna, peacekeeping is used for both consensus-based and enf...... middle of paper ......ure peace operations to better customize and tailor their methods for implementing peace and increase the duration of peace following periods of violence or war. Bibliography Beardsley, K. (2011). “Peacekeeping and the Contagion of Armed Conflict.” The Journal of Politics 73(4): 1051-1064. Southern Political Science Association.Fortna, V. P. (2008). “Does Peacekeeping Work?: Shaping Belligerents' Choices After Civil War.” Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.Mingst, K. A., & Karns, M. P. (2007). “The United Nations and conflict management: relevant or irrelevant?” In C. Crocker, F. Hampson, & P. ​​Aall (Eds.), Leashing the dogs of war: Conflict management in a divided world (pp.497-520). Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace Press. Whalan, J. “The Power of Friends: The Solomon Islands Regional Assistance Mission.” Peace Research Journal 47(5): 627-637.