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Analyze the recent trends in India’s role in the UN peacekeeping operations.

  • UPSC 2019
  • 15 marks
  • India and the UN System

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Peacekeeping, which Dag Hammarskjöld called "Chapter Six and a Half", has no Charter text, so its practice is shaped by those who supply it. India has supplied it since Korea in 1950, and the post-Cold War surge (some twenty new operations in 1989–94) made it a front-rank contributor. Four linked trends now mark its role.

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  • The baseline: from observers to multidimensional missions
  • Trend 1: quality over numbers
  • Trend 2: gender and training
  • Trend 3: from contributor to claimant
  • Trend 4: enforced contraction
  • How the trends interact
  • …and 1 more sections, with a conclusion
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