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The Operation Of Onuc ( Un )

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(A) BRIEF BACKGROUND OF THE TOPIC

1. Historical Background of the topic:

After Egypt nationalized Suez Canal, Britain, France, and Israel tried to intervene without

success. This event led to the 1956 Suez Crisis. During a UN meeting, Lester Pearson, a Canadian

diplomat, proposed a peacekeeping force wearing blue helmets for identification. In the

beginning, peacekeeping was limited to maintaining ceasefires and stabilizing situations on the

ground. But the he first missions consisted of unarmed military spectators and lightly armed

soldiers with monitoring, reporting, and confidence building roles. The first armed peacekeeping

mission was deployed to address Suez Crisis in 1956. The operation of ONUC (UN Operation of

Congo) was the first mission that had twenty thousand soldiers involved. ONUC showed the risk

of trying to bring security to war-torn countries. Two hundred and fifty soldiers died in this

mission. 2. Who is directly involved:

Directly involved in peacekeeping is a range of activities that help countries build

relationships with all sides, to increase the confidence of several middle class citizens, strengthen

ways to deal with violence, and to use forms of pressure to end violence once and for all.

Peacekeepers, such as military trained soldiers, are taught to have several structures and ways to,

if needed, to provide violence as a last resort. But civilian peacekeepers sometime has a more

persuasive way toward the prosecutors

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