United Nations Peacekeeping in the 21st Century/
Yeshi Choedon
- 2020
It discusses how the UN missions are riddled with serious challenges as these doctrinal transformations have taken place without consensus. It highlights the need for significant reforms to save it from the existential threat and necessity of sensitising the stakeholders that the UN peacekeeping operation is meant to be a part of political processes rather than a combat tool. This Essay begins with a discussion on the origin and development of UN peacekeeping operations until the end of the 1990s. It then focuses on the transformation of the UN peacekeeping operations in the 21st century, highlighting authorization of use of force for a wider range of purposes such as POC, stabilization of state and counterinsurgency operations to deal with armed groups, criminal gangs and terrorist organizations.