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    United Nations Peacekeeping-Development and Crisis Abstract The objective of the paper is to review the development of United Nations’ peacekeeping forces. After World War II, the United Nations had been given new opportunities to help control and resolve conflicts. As a result, new tasks and new method had to be adopted in order to adapt the fast world changing situation and continue growing conflicts which could endanger the international peace. Therefore, the UN peacekeeping forces play a very

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    The United Nations

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    What is the purpose of the United Nations (UN)? United Nations Charter dictates the principles are to save future generations from war, reaffirm human rights, establish equal rights for all persons, promote justice, freedom, and social progress for the peoples of all of its 193 member states. (United Nations, 2016) Explain the structure of the UN (including all the organizations under its umbrella). Briefly discuss the history of the UN. The United Nations was officially established on October 24

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    The UN Security Council was created on October 24, 1945 when the Second World War was coming to an end, and upon the ratification of the Charter. The Security Council on January 17, 1946 held is first session. However, before that there were representatives from China, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United States whom met at the Dumbarton Oaks in Washington D.C. for the initial discussions that would then lead to the creation of the Council. The UN Security Council then took permanent residence

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    suggests, the United Nations (UN), is an intergovernmental organisation to promote international co-operation, where it’s Security Council (SC) has a primary responsibility to withhold “peace and security” (United Nations n.d.) across the globe. In regards to its primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security, the SC has continued to engage on an extreme agenda in “accordance with the principles and objectives set forth in the Charter of the United Nations” (United Nations

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    The topic of the United Nations’ (UN) interventions has been a source of heated dispute by scholars since their intervention in the Korea War in 1951. However there are interventions that garner more controversy than others. The tragedies of the Rwandan Genocide and the Bosnian Genocide have been hailed as some of the greatest failures in the United Nations peacekeeping and intervention missions. The Rwandan and Bosnian genocides brought around a deep, introspective critique within the UN on its

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    international relationships between the United States and other nations are of extreme importance. These relationships effect the economies, security, and continuous development of the global populace. In a world of many states, international collaboration can be beneficial to all parties involved. This collaboration allows the various sovereign states to promote peace, negotiate differences, and apply military power when peaceful resolutions cannot be reached. While the United States works globally through

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    The United Nations Essay

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    With a charter established in 1945, the United Nations began its mission to promote peace and security . International collaboration led to the ratification of the charter by five country representatives at the time: China, France, The Soviet-Union, The United Kingdom and The United States; the UN officially came into existence October 24 1945. Each year since the day of ratification, UN day’s celebration reminds the world of their objective to promote respect for human rights, gender equality; the

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    Rwandan Genocide: The United States, France and the Failure of the UN Security Council. Between the months of April and July in 1994 approximately one million people were killed in Rwanda. There are three ethnic groups in Rwanda, Hutu, Tutsi, and Aboriginal Twa. The genocide occurred between two different groups, the Hutu and Tutsi people. The Hutu composed close to 85% of the population while the minority Tutsi people make up approximately 14% with the Twa people composing the remaining 1%. The

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    Abstract The objective for this paper is to evaluate the role and impact of the United Nations peacekeeping force as it interrupts with international incidents. A background on the creation of the United Nations and the evolution of the UN’s peacekeeping will be provided. Two United Nations peacekeeping operations (Bosnia and East Timor) will be explained in detail and provide improvements that can contribute to future peacekeeping missions. The strengths and weaknesses of both peacekeeping operations

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    The United Nations is an international organization whose main objective is to preserve world peace by resolving conflict through diplomacy. President Franklin Roosevelt is credited with writing the first draft of the “Declaration of the United Nations”, which was published shortly after the attacks on Pearl Harbor of 1941. At the time of release, the allies saw it as a document to solidify the American and European association against the axis powers. Later, “Declaration of the United Nations”

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