Essay for peacekeeping

Particularly, after Cold War, international peacekeeping has climbed to the top of the agenda of the United Nations (UN) and many national governments (Druckman, et.al, 1997). As result, the UN peacekeeping currently operates in more than 60 disputed areas. Are these peacekeeping are effective in sustaining peace and stability? Or they are not?

Peacekeeping has unique strengths, including legitimacy, burden sharing, and an ability to deploy and sustain troops and police from around the globe, integrating them with civilian peacekeepers to advance multidimensional mandates. UN Peacekeepers provide security and the political and peace building support to help

1. The UN Capstone Doctrine, in its Glossary of terms, defines ‘Robust Peacekeeping’ as, “the use of force by a United Nations peacekeeping operation at the tactical level, with the authorization of the Security Council, to defend its mandate against spoilers whose activities pose a threat to civilians or risk undermining the peace process”. 2.

Among the measures peacekeeping become major mechanism of dealing conflict among disputed parties. In addation, the uncertainty of collective security to prevent international conflict and the problem of war led member states of the United Nations to opt for a different solution – peacekeeping.