War and Peace: UN Successes
Writing in the St. Louis Post Dispatch, Andrew Mack reaffirms that UN peacekeeping is having a tangible impact on levels of global violence: “Other international agencies, donor governments and nongovernmental organizations also played a critical role, but it was the United Nations that took the lead, pushing a range of conflict-prevention and peace-building initiatives on a scale never before attempted. The number of U.N. peacekeeping operations and missions to prevent and stop wars has increased by more than 400 percent since the end of the Cold War. As this upsurge of international activism grew in scope and intensity through the 1990s, the number of crises, wars and genocides declined.”
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August 2nd, 2006 @ 6:41 am
The U. N. is reducing global violence? That is the funniest thing I’ve heard in a long while! Compare the U. N.’s successes to it’s failiers, and crimes, and it’s not even close.
August 5th, 2006 @ 10:25 am
I’d like someone to make a list of UN’s successes and falilures. You’ll find UN is very useful indeed, much more than you believe it is, Dewey. Nothing is perfect. UN is neccessary and fair.