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    Peacekeeping In Canada

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    Canada throughout history has been known to be quite a helpful country, aiding in peace missions around the world. But what is Canada’s identity, peacekeeper, or peacemaker? Canada, although widely known as a peacekeeping nation has gradually transitioned into one of peacemaking. Through NATO missions, the increase of conflict in the world and United Nations, Canada has become more of a peacemaking nation. Canada has remained a loyal member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization also known as

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    WHAT IS PEACE KEEPING? Peacekeeping has proven to be one of the most effective tools available to the UN to assist host countries navigate the difficult path from conflict to peace. 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

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    4. LIMITATIONS OF PEACEKEEPING Limitations of UN Peacekeeping have been exposed time and again. The alterations caused by these limitations have now been incorporated in the operational structure. The influence of a UN Peacekeeping Operation, too, depends on extent of involvement of various actors, whose conduct depends greatly on assessment of strategic interests. So, the characterization of United Nations as an international authority which could issue directives to enforce its mandate would be

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    characteristics represents a defining aspect known as peacekeeping, through their beliefs and interests. Peacekeeping has always been a priority for Canadians to control conflict for Canada and other nations around the world. Peacekeeping in Canada began in 1957, when Lester B. Pearson believed that Canada should do something to ensure that nations could agree to have stable truces. Pearson proposed the idea of having an armed peacekeeping force. Peacekeeping is the active maintenance of a truce between nations

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    do, who created the Canadian peacekeeping forces and how today’s peacekeeping forces remember their predecessors. Initially, to understand why they are necessary it is important to understand who these forces are, what

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    actively involved with the United Nations since its creation in 1945. Since then, Canadian peacekeepers have participated in almost every single peacekeeping mission. The role of Canadian peacekeeping was to bring peace and stability between countries. However, Canada’s role is slowly starting to diminish because of its failure to prevent conflict in peacekeeping missions. Examples of this instance include the mass genocide in Rwanda, the civil war in Somalia and Yugoslavian crisis. Through the months

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    Canadians pride themselves on being a “peacekeeping country” and many believe that peacekeeping represents a defining aspect of Canadian identity because it reflects fundamental values, beliefs and interests. Canada has been a leader in peace operations since its development that spearheaded by a Canadian. In fact, Canada’s role as peacekeeper remains the main focus of the Canadian military after its invention around 60 years ago, originally started by a Canadian. Their efforts have gained an

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    Unique Investment of ladies in the UN peacekeeping operations, as one of vital precondition for their successful and effective usage has gotten to be all the more generally acknowledged just amid the recent years. In spite of the fact that, ladies ' commitment in the peacekeeping operations are multifaceted (the level of security among the neighborhood ladies build, the trust of the nearby group in the mission develops, the contact with the female populace is less demanding to build, and so forth

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    keeping around the world Canadians strongly believe that peacekeeping is about trying to protect people from extreme harm, a way of providing hope in situations that seem hopeless, and a good method of bringing peace and justice to war-torn countries or failed states. Canadian soldiers in their peacekeeping role have been so strong for such a long time that it has generated into their national identity. Canadians take pride in the peacekeeping legacy of their country. Canada has always considered peace

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    Peacekeeping is a tool for tranquillity among nations ravaged by war. Following World War II, many countries were open to many threats following the decisions made during the conflict and the creation of new types of sophisticated warfare, such as the atomic bomb. The new age of civil wars brought upon many countries to organize a new solution to orchestrate peace known as The United Nations. The United Nations provided a forum for discussion among nations to discuss world problems and economy. Canada

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