A Difficult Peace: The UN and the Challenges of Modern Peacekeeping

The Emerging Geopolitics of Peacekeeping As the saying goes, peace, like war, must be waged, and the United Nations (UN) has been at the forefront of this battle for almost 70 years. From the UN Emergency Force (UNEF), the first ever peacekeeping mission set up in 1956 at the height of the Suez crisis, to the 2014 UN mission in the Central African Republic ...