United Nations Peacekeeping Operations

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INTRODUCTION
With total 193 members, it makes the United Nations the biggest international organizations. One of the purposes why the United Nations is formed is to keep the peace between the nation-states. To help UN can reach their goals it has six principal organs; but for peacekeeping purpose, there are organs those are directly involved; and one of them is the Secretariat’s Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO).
United Nation Peacekeeping Operations, as known as UNPKO, are the ones that DPKO is responsible of and also the ones that are directed by DPKO since 1992, before it was handled by DFA. UN Peacekeeping is purposed to help countries to become peace when they have a major conflict.
Among the operations that have been done …show more content…

Brief history of Civil War in Liberia, in the article says that these wars lasted from late 1989 until 2003 and it took around 200.000 lives and made 1,5 million people become refugees.
The first war was happened in 1989 until 1990, when the Charles Taylor brought 100 rebels and then attacked the current president at that time, Samuel Doe, to oust him. Then in 1990, the opposition of Samuel Doe, but still was the enemy of Charles Taylor, Prince Yormie Johnson, killed Doe first and sent the video of it to Taylor, and since then they went attacking each other, caused a 7-years war, before finally Charles Taylor won the …show more content…

They wanted to oust him because Charles Taylor was funding the rebel acts in Guinea, Ivory Coast, and Sierra Leona, even though his source of money already had been cut off and he himself already was indicted by UN , and those countries were suffering because of it. The rebels were from two different ethnic backgrounds and were backed up by different three countries that were suffering because of Charles Taylor.
There were steps that were taken by United Nations to face the civil war.
In 1990, because of the first war, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) tried to make peace in the middle of the chaotic situation, so they formed Economic Community of West African States Monitoring Group (ECOMOG). This organization was supported by United Nations. They sent troops to Liberia to help them making peace. The result was quite good ECOMOG had successfully stopped the war and the ethnic killing temporally. ECOMOG left Liberia with the recognition from UN in 1998.
In 1993, UN formed the United Nations Observer Mission in Liberia (UNOMIL) after ECOWAS mediated the Cotonou Peace agreement among the opposition sides. It worked together with ECOMOG, since ECOMOG had been existed, in terms of the implementation of Cotonou Peace

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