More than 2 million peacekeepers have been dispatched by the UN during the past 75 years to assist nations in resolving conflicts, with notable triumphs in Liberia and Cambodia and grave failures in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. Today’s obstacles include more violent surroundings, fake news campaigns, and a divided world that hinder it from achieving its ultimate goal: successfully restoring stable governments in the dozen hotspots where U.N. peacekeeping forces are present.
On Thursday, the group will commemorate the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers and the 75th anniversary of U.N. peacekeeping. A ceremony will be held to remember the more than 4,200 peacekeepers who have lost their lives since 1948, when the U.N. Security Council made the momentous choice to dispatch military observers to the Middle East to monitor the execution of Israeli-Arab armistice agreements. At a Security Council meeting will be the current commander of that mission, which evolved into the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization. More than 2 million peacekeepers have been dispatched by the UN during the past 75 years to assist nations in resolving conflicts, with notable triumphs in Liberia and Cambodia and grave failures in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda.
Today’s obstacles include more violent surroundings, fake news campaigns, and a divided world that hinder it from achieving its ultimate goal: successfully restoring stable governments in the dozen hotspots where U.N. peacekeeping forces are present. On Thursday, the group will commemorate the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers and the 75th anniversary of U.N. peacekeeping. A ceremony will be held to remember the more than 4,200 peacekeepers who have lost their lives since 1948, when the U.N. Security Council made the momentous choice to dispatch military observers to the Middle East to monitor the execution of Israeli-Arab armistice agreements.
At a Security Council meeting will be the current commander of that mission, which evolved into the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization. He asserted that the U.N. must do a better job of addressing all the issues. Additionally, it must carry out its performance-related programs, battle fake news, enhance safety and security, and recruit more women to serve as peacekeepers in order to continue increasing the effectiveness of peacekeeping. It is very obvious that the U.N. is “trapped” in some nations like Mali and Congo where there aren’t enough peacekeepers to stop recurrent cycles of bloodshed, according to The Crisis Group’s Gowan, who spoke to AP. According to him, several African nations, such as Mali, are using private security companies like Russia’s Wagner Group to combat insurgents.
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