In the cause of Peace: Honouring 60 years of UN Peacekeeping

[michael1618034]

There've been big UN peacekeeping successes -- like Liberia, Ivory Coast, East Timor, Eastern Slavonia -- but also tragic failures, like Rwanda and Srebrenica. Considering how difficult such situations are, the successes are impressive -- and were achieved at low cost, especially compared to the thousands of billions the US wasted on its disastrous go-it-alone intervention in iraq. Still, the failure of UN peacekeeping in some other cases does call for hard thinking about how to do better.

[Mrgruntastic]

Professor Haupt's Class. Santa Barbara California. 

[TheBayValley]

Mr. Knox's class :D

[hakalasubinkic]

Under protection of U.N peacekeepers there is no survivors i just hope there is no more wars.

Greetings from Bosnia

[vthilton]

Sharing, Justice and Peace for all the world. Peace keeping will make war extinct, not the world.

[linuxxc]

I like how Rwanda doesn't even get it's own sentence, 800,000 dead over the course of 100 days but hey that was just a bump in the otherwise smooth road of peacekeeping. Yeah, real great...

[maxcommunist]

@linuxxc

And you know why the UN did nothing? Because the USA went against it. I love the idea of the UN, and I support their peacekeeping work, but I think the veto-right that USA and several other countries has must be removed. No country should have the right to put in veto against the wills of a majority of the other nations..

[PokerFaceMoose]

The U.N. has done a lot more than people give them credit for. I made a slideshow of UN peacekeepers, you should check it out! watch?v=5Ik_6nIqKp8

[holdencommodore343]

I love this video

[TheRachel33]

Im going to work there someday, just like Sergio Vieira de Melo :-))

[wolfgang8u]

peace is needed. the world is a pressure cooker right now

[chapalopa1]

thats true