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  2. United Nations peacekeeping - Wikipedia

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    United Nations peacekeeping was initially developed during the Cold War as a means of resolving conflicts between states by deploying unarmed or lightly armed military personnel from a number of countries, commanded by the UN, to areas where warring parties were in need of a neutral party to observe the peace process.

  3. United Nations Department of Peace Operations - Wikipedia

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    The UN Truce Supervision Organisation and the UN Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan are excluded from the Peacekeeping Operations budget and are financed through the regular UN budget. The top 5 providers of assessed contributions to the UN Peacekeeping Operations budget for 2020-2021 were: United States (27.89%), China (15.21% ...

  4. Peacekeeping - Wikipedia

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    There is a range of various types of operations encompassed in peacekeeping. In Page Fortna's book Does Peacekeeping Work?, for instance, she distinguishes four different types of peacekeeping operations. [6] Importantly, these types of missions and how they are conducted are heavily influenced by the mandate in which they are authorized.

  5. UN peacekeeping on 75th anniversary: successes ... - AOL

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    On the 75th anniversary of U.N. peacekeeping, the United Nations chief said Thursday that peacekeepers are increasingly working in places where there is no peace and praised the more than 4,200 ...

  6. List of United Nations peacekeeping missions - Wikipedia

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    Current Missions Past Missions UN refugee camp in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. IDP camp in Sudan resulting from the Darfur conflict.. This is a list of United Nations peacekeeping missions since the United Nations was founded in 1945, organized by region, with the dates of deployment, the name of the related conflict, and the name of the UN operation.

  7. History of United Nations peacekeeping - Wikipedia

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    Pearson was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1957 for his work in establishing UN peacekeeping operations. UNEF was the first official armed peacekeeping operation modeled on Pearson's ideas. [8] Since 1956, most UN peacekeeping forces, including those called "observer" missions, have been armed.

  8. France, US compromise to renew UN peacekeeping mission ... - AOL

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    UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -The United Nations Security Council voted on Thursday to extend a long-running peacekeeping mission in Lebanon for another year after a compromise was reached between ...

  9. List of countries by number of United Nations peacekeepers ...

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    This is a list of countries by total number of peacekeepers contributed to United Nations operations based on United Nations reporting as of 29 February 2024. [1]