History of United Nations peacekeeping | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-10-03

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00:01:26 1 Early years
00:05:03 2 Cold War
00:05:35 2.1 International conflicts
00:07:16 2.2 Decolonization
00:07:59 2.3 Middle East conflicts
00:09:24 3 End of the Cold War
00:12:33 4 Post Cold War
00:12:42 4.1 International conflicts
00:13:45 4.2 Civil Wars
00:17:52 4.3 Independence facilitation efforts
00:18:58 5 Assessment
00:22:06 6 See also



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The United Nations Peacekeeping began in 1948. Its first mission was in the Middle East to observe and maintain the ceasefire  during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. Since then, United Nations peacekeepers have taken part in a total of 72 missions around the globe, 14 of which continue today. The peacekeeping force as a whole received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1988.
Though the term "peacekeeping" is not found in the United Nations Charter, the authorization is generally considered to lie in (or between) Chapter 6 and Chapter 7. Chapter 6 describes the Security Council's power to investigate and mediate disputes, while Chapter 7 discusses the power to authorize economic, diplomatic, and military sanctions, as well as the use of military force, to resolve disputes. The founders of the UN envisioned that the organization would act to prevent conflicts between nations and make future wars impossible; however, the outbreak of the Cold War made peacekeeping agreements extremely difficult due to the division of the world into hostile camps. Following the end of the Cold War, there were renewed calls for the UN to become the agency for achieving world peace, and the agency's peacekeeping dramatically increased, authorizing more missions between 1991 and 1994 than in the previous 45 years combined.