peacekeeping
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thumb|A soldier from the [[Italian Army stands guard during the UNIFIL mission in Lebanon.]]
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Encyclopedic overview
34 sectionsContents
- Definitions and types of peacekeeping operations
- United Nations peacekeeping missions
- Chapter VI and Chapter VII mission types
- UN missions during and after the Cold War
- Broader aims of UN missions
- Non-United Nations peacekeeping
- Brief history
- Creation and early years
- Cold War peacekeeping
- Since 1991
- Composition of peacekeeping forces
- Nations that participate in peacekeeping missions
- Women's participation in peacekeeping
- Theoretical basis for peacekeeping
- Effectiveness of peacekeeping missions
- Factors that impact lasting peace
- Impacts of peacekeeping on participating forces
- Military normalisation
- Political impact on sending countries
- Impacts on individual peacekeepers
- Criticism
- Peacekeeping, human trafficking, and forced prostitution
- Peacekeepers and the Haiti cholera crisis
- Cultural concerns related to contemporary peacekeeping
- Limitations on contemporary intervention and conflict resolution
- Mission creep
- Lack of engagement with the populace
- Meta-organisational challenges
- Proposed reform
- Brahimi analysis
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|A soldier from the [[Italian Army stands guard during the UNIFIL mission in Lebanon.]]
Peacekeeping comprises activities intended to create conditions that favor lasting peace. Research generally finds that peacekeeping reduces civilian and battlefield deaths, as well as reduces the risk of renewed warfare.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “peacekeeping” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.