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Title

United Nations Peacekeeping : Future challenges

Description

Since the end of the Cold War the context and content of peacekeeping operations have radically changed. Peacekeeping has now become a lose concept, encompassing a bewildering range of country level, non-development activities and more and more intra-state in character. The United Nations (UN) is increasingly become involved in what are being termed as preventative or post-conflict peacebuilding measures.

This paper provides a brief background to the Peacekeeping, Wider Peacekeeping and New Peacekeeping Partnership with particular reference of its security record in the light of its stated aims.

Its also analyses the nature of contemporary peacekeeping, the environment in which it is used and the problems which the UN faces. It demonstrates that although the UN has adapted its organisation and approach to deal with the changes brought about by the end of the Cold War, it still confronts a variety of problems.

By examining the UN in this way it has been possible to identify the specific military problems of peacekeeping and also the more general problems that face the UN and which impringe on the former. This paper offers some ideas and options with regard to how the UN can successfully reform to meet the challenges of peacekeeping in the future.

Creator

Mej Mustafa Bin Awang Ngah

Source

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
University of Malaya
PL5065 1999 Musan

Date

1999

Contributor

kelly

Format

Project Paper

Identifier

A515624363