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Challenges Of UN Peacekeeping

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Peacekeeping operations having contributed greatly to peace and security in the world over the past 70 years, it is crucial for the United Nations (UN) to keep pace with evolving challenges and new threats. However, today’s conflicts are often deeply rooted and complex, being increasingly internationalized and lasting longer. Exacerbated by an intricate combination of factors, including imbalance of power of states, ethnic strife, transnational extremist threats, and serious humanitarian crises, such complexities of today’s conflicts directly affect the environments in which UN peacekeeping operates, and many problems have therefore occurred, including violation against state sovereignty, limitation of resources, lack of efficiency et cetera. …show more content…

In response to the previous report (A/68/19) of the Special Committee, the Secretary-General has released a report on Implementation of the Recommendations of the Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations (A/69/642). The High-level Independent Panel on Peace Operations, established in October 2014, has also issued a report (A/70/95-S/2015/446) on uniting strengths for peace: politics, partnership and people to UNGA and the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). Draft Resolution A/C.4/70/L.14 (not yet assigned with an official resolution symbol) was passed and adopted in November 2015 by UNGA to request the Secretary-General to draft a further …show more content…

Germany valuing the importance of UN Peacekeeping, its Federal Foreign Minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, stated in last November that “Conflict resolution without the peacekeeping operations of the United Nations is inconceivable in light of the many crises and conflicts around the world.” Having sent 36 policemen, 19 military experts, and 146 troops for peacekeeping in February, Germany also led two reconstruction teams simultaneously in the International Security Assistance Force

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