The Pros And Cons Of Military Peacekeeping

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Throughout the year’s peacekeeping operations have been utilized to make sure that neither current of future conflict, hinders the chance for peace in regions that do not have the personnel, military equipment, and strong government, to make sure that the country does not get deprived of its welfare, peace, safety. The intent of various military peacekeeping force, seems to be a great method of trying to save regions from destruction, but the use of many other outside countries assisting with peacekeeping operations has been questioned, because it may seem to some that the resources are being unnecessarily used to support these types of operations. But the positive effectiveness in utilizing various military forces, shows how dependable …show more content…

Just like any operations that have been conducted throughout the years of history, one of the main keys of making sure that an operation is even able to be conducted, peacekeepers must have the financial stability to support their operation. An example of a peacekeeper not having the efficient funds to support their peacekeeping operation, is the United Nations. For many past years till this current present time, the United Nations have had a great intention of making their attempts of providing peace in areas, but the United Nations major downfalls, was their inability to successfully provide efficient funds for their operations. And with this flaw, it brought more additional barriers that prevented them from helping other countries establish peace. Other countries like the United States of America, did not want any major affiliations with what the
U.N. was attempting to do, because they knew that the U.N. was digging themselves into more debt by trying to help an area to decrease conflict, with the limited resources that they had. The
U.N. opened a can of worms, that they had no intensions of it back firing, because they

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