GS232 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: United Nations Peacekeeping Force In Cyprus, United Nations Protection Force, Peacebuilding
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Gs232 week 10: peacekeeping (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Current peacekeeping missions: 16: primarily africa and middle east. Key principles: consent of the parties, neutrality, peacekeepers as lightly-armed, force used only in self-defense, peacekeeping as ceasefire maintenance (the thin blue line) Shift to multidimensional role: peacekeeping, resettling refugees, organizing elections. Overall successful transition to relative peace and security. Drc (democratic republic of congo: not a classical civil war it"s a failed state, series of conflicts going on at the same time, shifting alliances, international and civil. Use of force: robust" peacekeeping: increasing acknowledgement that force is sometimes necessary in order to keep the peace. Neutrality/impartiality: swiss are neutral, referees are impartial, we can"t sit by and watch as genocides happen in front of our faces, rwanda legacy. There was a un mission on the ground while the genocide was going on. Un was instructed to remain impartial couldn"t stop the genocide.
