Blue Helmet
UN Peacekeeping helps countries navigate the difficult path from conflict to peace. The UN has unique strengths, including legitimacy, burden sharing, and an ability to deploy troops and police from around the world, integrating them with civilian peacekeepers to address a range of mandates.
Do you think they are successful operations?
Pick one and describe its success and/ or failure.
Who is responsible for establishing new peacekeeping operations around the world? Who renews these missions or closes them?
– https://peacekeeping.un.org/en/role-of-security-council
Who finances them?
– https://peacekeeping.un.org/en/role-of-general-assembly
What’s A4P?
– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIHWqrtmbrg
Who are the “blue helmets”?
– https://peacekeeping.un.org/en/military
How many UN Peacekeeping missions does the UN have at the moment around the world?
– https://peacekeeping.un.org/en/where-we-operate