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Comment: UN’s peacekeeping role in domestic conflicts.

  • UPSC 1994
  • 20 marks
  • United Nations

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Peacekeeping, which Dag Hammarskjöld called "Chapter Six and a Half", was invented for wars between states: lightly armed contingents watching a ceasefire line, as UNEF I did at Suez in 1956. Today it is deployed almost entirely inside states. Every element of the classical model (consent, impartiality, minimum force) assumes conditions that civil wars rarely…

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