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
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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
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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
Ghana fought for Independence; the movement being led by Kwame Nkrumah. He believed that the land did not belong to the European’s, so they wanted freedom from their rule. The British ended up approving Ghana’s cries for independence and by 1957 they were free from British rule. ( Doc. 6 ) In Kenya, their president Jomo Kenyatta led their fight for independence from the Europeans.
The civil war that happened in the years 1991-2002 made a big impact on every man, woman and child in Sierra Leone. The author Ishmael Beah goes into exceptional detail in the book A Long Way Gone about his journey making it out of the Sierra Leone civil war. Ishmael was only at the age twelve when the war came to his village. From this point on, his life was changed forever.
In the chronology, there is several pieces of information about Sierra Leone, and about the war. Most, if not all of the dates somehow relate to the anecdotal evidence seen throughout the book. In the beginning of the book, Beah introduced how we was “first touched by the war”, and how news of the fighting didn’t seem real until it was right in front of him. After the story was completed, the timeline tied back to this. Beah recorded how the war started, in March of 1991.
The RUF were fighting for their belief that the Sierra Leone government was corrupt and they fought to change the balance of power and killed so many civilians in the
Literally, peacekeeping means to keep peace. Peacekeeping differs from peacemaking. Peacemaking involves troops directly in armed combat. Its purpose it to bring the warring sides to peace by the use of force.
The French and American Revolution has similarities and differences. They both wanted change from an absolute ruler. Even though they had similarities they both had differences. The friends were a country in the Americas Berry Colony. The French wanted to overthrow their government whereas the Americans wanted freedom.
The Civil War was one of the most immense battles in American History. The war started in 1861 and lasted for 4 years. This war was between the Union and the Confederacy. By the end of this devastating war, the Reconstruction era began. During the Reconstruction of 1865-1877, many different issues, including political, social, and economic impacted African American lives in many different ways.
Political instability is caused by corrupt politicians who only care about lining their own pockets rather than taking care of those who live in their country. When the citizens are not taken care of they tend to come together and try to over throe the government for the change they want. If the change doesn’t come the civilians can use violence to over throw the government which can lead to a civil war between the “rebels” and the
Zane Lienhart Professor Hawn AMH2010 10/17/17 The Seminole Wars and the American Conflicts with the Florida Indian Tribes Some of the darkest and most shameful times in American History revolved around dealings with the Native Americans. The Seminole Wars, also known as the Florida Wars, are important events in American History that are almost always ignored or overlooked. They consisted of three individual series of conflicts revolving around the Seminole Indians of Florida and the United States.
It had a lot of terms to try to maintain world peace. Cold war tensions between the USSR and the USA prevented a permanent UN force from being created. As an alternative, the UN decided to send temporary military forces into the world regional hotspots to keep the peace. Military officials were sent to the Pakistan-India region of Kashmir. The same action was taken the following month along the Arab-Israeli borders in Palestine.
Many people have their own opinions and views of The Civil War. Some describe it as unfinished, bloody and gruesome, and some even see it as a representation of freedom. The Civil War began in the spring of 1861. The war was ignited by tension between the northern and southern Unites States over issues including states’ rights versus federal authority, westward expansion and slavery exploded into the American Civil War (1861-65) (History.com). The Civil War last for 4 years and proved very costly with the loss of more than approximately 6 million lives.
The Genocide in Darfur had called the attention along different nations all over the world. Involving a significant episodes of criminal and civil accountable. The region of Darfur belongs to a part of Sudan.
The US military plays a major role in the defense system of the world. Their role can be in the form of military aid, deployment of the military and deployment of the Coast Guards and the protection of people’s lives and freedom. The US is well known for providing military aid to many different countries. The aim of military aid is usually to help allies or poor countries to fight terrorism, counter-insurgencies or to help fight drug wars.
Essentially, the council generates Peacekeeping Operation or applies a sanction to member states. In addition, the P5 of the UNSC have the veto power which allows them to veto against any resolutions within the UN. However, there have been far too many concerns over the skeptical roles of the UNSC in the 21st century. The P5 seem to use their powers mostly for pursuing their own interest. Furthermore, the actions initiated by the council are mostly inefficient in response to international issues.
The authorized intervention was granted by UN Security Council. Chapter VII of the Charter also provides one clear exception to the non-intervention principle by granting powers to the Security Council to determine the existence of any threat to the peace, breach of the peace, or act of aggression and shall make recommendations, to maintain or restore international peace and security. The necessity of multilateral cooperation in dealing with international peace and security was widely accepted and the use of multilateral intervention became one of the mechanisms employed by the international community in dealing with crisis. The UN R2P: