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 1949.

• CANADA, FRANCE, UK AND THE USA ARE SOME OF THE MEMBERS.

Source: http://www.nato.int/icons/natologo.gif

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: http://static.bbc.co.uk/history/img/ic/640/images/resources/events/nato_increases_the_number_of_troops_in_afghanistan.jpg

INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNALS AND WAR

CRIMES

YUGOSLAVIA

YUGOSLAVIA

• MARSHALL TITO RULED YUGOSLAVIA AS A COMMUNIST DICTATOR FROM 1953 TO 1980.

• 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: http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/About/General/2011/8/3/1312396165004/The-ruins-of-Vukovar-1991-007.jpg

BOSNIAN WAR (1992-1995)

Devastation in Sarejavo, capital of Bosnia and HerzegovinaSource: https://www.google.ca/search?q=sarejavo&oq=sarejavo&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.2230j0j4&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8