peacekeeping
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- 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
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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.