The Post-Cold War World

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This paper presents a critical review and response to three readings. The readings include Boutros Ghali's "An Agenda for Peace: Preventive Diplomacy, Peacemaking and Peacekeeping", Michael Small's "Peacebuilding in Post-conflict Societies" and Carrie Manning's "Local Level Challenges to Post-Conflict Peacebuilding". All three address the topic of peacebuilding in the post-Cold War world.

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"In An Agenda for Peace, Ghali discusses the purpose of the United Nations, as well as gives an analysis and recommendations on ways the UN can strengthen their means for preventative diplomacy, including peacemaking and peacekeeping. These two fundamental components of preventative diplomacy are quite different, despite both centering on peace. With peacemaking, actions are used to end hostilities. However, peacekeeping involves not only making peace, but maintaining it as well, once it is achieved. With the end of the Cold War, there came the opportunity for globalized peace on a scale never before known, and the UN has been charged with the task of acquiring and maintaining this international peace and security."

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