INTERVENING IN CONFLICTS BLUE HELMETS, NATO, AND CONFLICTS IN FORMER YUGOSLAVIA

BLUE HELMETS IN 1956, LESTER B. PEARSON PROPOSED SENDING UN TROOPS TO ACT AS A PEACEKEEPING FORCE IN EGYPT DURING THE SUEZ CRISIS. UN PEACEKEEPERS COME FROM MULTIPLE COUNTRIES. FOR PEACEKEEPERS TO INTERVENE THEY MUST: NOT USE FORCE, MUST REMAIN NEUTRAL AND MUST BE IMPARTIAL.

BLUE HELMETS (CONTINUED) FACTORS THAT LIMIT EFFECTIVENESS: - DISAGREEMENTS AMONG MEMBERS. - LIMITED FINANCES OF THE UN

NATO NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION. CURRENTLY 28 MEMBERS. FOUNDED IN CANADA, FRANCE, UK AND THE USA ARE SOME OF THE MEMBERS. Source:

NATO (CONTINUED) NATO IS A POLITICAL AND MILITARY ALLIANCE. PRINCIPLE OF MUTUAL DEFENSE. IT MAINLY OPERATES IN COUNTRIES THAT AREN’T MEMBERS OF NATO. NATO troops in Afghanistan Source: ages/resources/events/nato_increases_the _number_of_troops_in_afghanistan.jpg

INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNALS AND WAR CRIMES

YUGOSLAVIA

MARSHALL TITO RULED YUGOSLAVIA AS A COMMUNIST DICTATOR FROM 1953 TO YUGOSLAVIA WAS ETHNICALLY DIVERSE: SLOVENES, CROATS, SERBS, ALBANIANS, MUSLIM BOSNIANS, MONTENEGRINS AND MACEDONIANS LIVED IN THE TERRITORY.

ETHNIC CONFLICTS AFTER TITO’S DEATH IN 1980, REPUBLICS IN THE TERRITORY BEGAN TO PUSH FOR INDEPENDENCE. CONFLICTS AROSE BECAUSE OF LONG-STANDING ETHNIC TENSIONS AND NON- RECOGNITION OF A TERRITORY’S INDEPENDENCE. Source: images/Guardian/About/General/2011/8/3/ /The-ruins-of-Vukovar jpg

BOSNIAN WAR ( ) Devastation in Sarejavo, capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina Source: sourceid=chrome&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8