The United Nations Peacekeeping Forces (1988)

The United Nations Peacekeeping Forces are employed by the World Organization to maintain or to re-establish peace in an area of armed conflict. The UN Peacekeeping Forces may only be employed when both parties to a conflict accept their presence. We distinguish between two kinds of peacekeeping operations - unarmed observer groups and lightly-armed military forces.

The Peacekeeping Forces are recruited from among the young people of many nations, who, in keeping with their ideals, voluntarily take on a demanding and hazardous service in the cause of peace. Their efforts contribute in a particularly appropriate way towards the realization of the goals of the United Nations.

733 young people have sacrificed their lives in the service of the peacekeeping. To the present there have been - or are - 13 peacekeeping operations, fifty-three countries have contributed with personnel, and the maximum force has been a total of 50,000 people. If one counts all the soldiers who have been involved in these operations, the total is something like 500,000 people. The young people in the United Nations Peacekeeping Forces play an important role in establishing, maintaining and promoting peace throughout the world.

Internet Links:

Homepage of the United Nations Peacekeeping Forces

 

 
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