Peacekeeping

Paper Summary:

This paper looks at how the United Nations (UN) peacekeepers won the Nobel peace Prize in 1988 and have been seen as the strongest asset of the United Nations and how their continued existence has been questioned in recent years. It discusses the history of UN's role in containing conflicts since the end of the Cold War and and the issues that have risen pertaining to whether the UN should actually play such a role. It examines how in the past, lightly armed UN troops entered a conflict only with the consent of all parties and weapons were only to be used for self-defense and how in the present climate, the UN is not using force less but more as it takes on the role of protector for aid deliveries and civilians.

From the Paper:

"The United Nations has two means of enforcement against outlaw states, the first negotiated settlement, and the second collective security, including sanctions. The logic of the system was based on some sort of unanimity among the fiver permanent members of the Security Council, but this was prevented from the first by the onset of the Cold War and the revolution in China. The first casualty of the Cold War was the idea of collective security. This does not mean that the United Nations has been completely inactive, for it has not. It does mean that action is difficult to achieve and difficult to maintain, as can be seen by the Korean War."

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