Peacekeeping

“There is no such thing as a model or an ideal Canadian,” (Pierre Trudeau). Although Canada, as a nation, states that they have certain values that are followed by everyone, it is difficult to live perfectly by them due to human nature and differences. Canada does have core values though, of peace, health care and equality. Peace is a preeminent Canadian value and it is written all over the country’s history. From the beginning of the formation of Canada, people who deem themselves Canadian’s…

felt that peacekeeping was an important part of the Canadian identity. While the Canadian government was under Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, Canadian foreign policy had a disputed isolationist approach to foreign policy. However, when Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent succeeded the Canadian government, foreign policy experienced a shift, switching to an internationalist approach. This was exemplified by Canada’s involvement…

disputes between nations, reduce tensions, prevent conflicts, and put an end to fighting. The United Nations is mainly a peacemaking, peacekeeping organization that has done more than enough to keep peace in the world. Their supreme goal is to end war. It was expected that the great powers would work together to keep the peace.Success of peacekeeping operation depends not only on the concerned parties consent, but also on their full co-operation, specially regarding freedom of movement of…

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Military organizations are often subject to intense debate these days. Many believe that military operations in various parts of the world are detrimental to the goal of world peace. Conversely, there is also the view that the military and military entities can actually help to facilitate and foster peace around the world. This view may seem counter intuitive to some, but unfortunately, the world can be a very scary and dangerous place. All throughout human history, people of all races,…

Humanitarian intervention on moral grounds is easily justified but the use of military force is complicated as there are political and economic costs involved. In the post-cold war era, the discussion has been about whether it is a country’s prerogative to intervene in a sovereign nation’s affairs or it is a matter of moral obligation to protect the people from atrocities inflicted by their own countrymen. Use of military force can be very costly in terms of casualties both civilian and of…

Western countries in general failed to prevent genocidal killings in Rwanda. Perhaps Dallaire was not the right leader to send into Rwanda and the UN should have looked for an African to lead the mission and perhaps someone with more political and peacekeeping experience. A fact Dallaire admits himself early in his book. Trained as an artillery officer, Dallaire was unfamiliar with Rwandan politics and was not knowledgeable in UN…

In addition to the direct failures of the intervention, we can learn a great deal about the American failure through the consequences of Somalia. Domestic politics drives foreign policy, and in the case of Somalia, the domestic backlash sheds light on what was a step in the wrong direction for security as seen through Presidential Decision Directive 25. After the tragedy of the battle of Mogadishu and Black Hawk Down, President Clinton was facing mounting domestic pressure to ‘bring the boys…

tasked with maintaining order throughout the nation of Panem by violence, in the famous novel, The Hunger Games. However, Canada’s definition differs slightly as it defines peacekeeping as promoting peace and truce between hostile political forces (Granatstein). Canada has played a significant role in international peacekeeping through its participation in the Cold War. Canada not only have supplied troops, established medical institutions, and protected civilians in many war-torn countries, but…

Although the United Nation has its shortcomings, as will all supranational organizations, it has a tendency to perform well in some areas, given its scale and age this is impressive by any account, and consistently fail in other, possibly more pertinent realms of governance. A simple example of this is how the world, by extension the United Nations, is more willing to negotiate and work together in areas related to trade and politics, to a lesser degree, but historically significantly less…