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| This book is about the effectiveness of peace operations--the policy option of choice when powerful states and international organisations seek to build peace and security in states ravaged by conflict. It investigates how people in host societies view peace operations, and why these local perceptions matter for a peace operation's effectiveness. The book argues that peace operations depend for their success on the decisions and behaviour of diverse local actors. Peace operations work better--that is, achieve more of their objectives at lower cost--when they receive high quality local cooperation. The book concludes that peace operations are more likely to be effective when they are perceived locally to be legitimate | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||