Abstract
By applying a social constructivist perspective this article investigates whether the preventive peacekeeping mission to the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia contributed to altering or sustaining norms of international peacekeeping. In addition, the article is concerned with if and how the UN mission UNPREDEP functioned as a channel of diffusion of international norms pertaining to peaceful conflict resolution to Macedonia. The article suggests that UNPREDEP provided the international community with an opportunity for norm diffusion. Furthermore, by allowing the emerging norm of conflict prevention to guide peacekeeping efforts in Macedonia, the norm was strengthened and the ambitions to promote the norm globally, as well as locally, were supported.
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