POL208Y5 Lecture 19: History and Origins of Peacekeeping
15 Sep 2017
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Compressing coins at attractions (defacing coins is a crime) The prohibition against the use of force against your neighbors has been ignored: desuetude: laws that are widely ignored and not enforced. History and origins of peacekeeping: peacekeeping: the use of military and civilian personnel that are deployed to a conflict zone, by the security council to prevent the reoccurrence of violence in that area. Ceasefire in place, they are there to solidify it (not create or start it) Deployed to the middle east in late 1948 to monitor a ceasefire agreement between israel and its arab neighbors. They did not call it peacekeeping until much later. During the separation war between india and pakistan two sides incidents: lightly armed troops to maintain a dmz and prevent reoccurrence of war through small. Intimidation would be caused with heavily armed troops. More expensive for heavily armed: peacekeepers absolutely can not prevent to resumption of hostilities.
