Peace Keeping – PK75: Stories of Canadian Peacekeepers
Histoires de Casques bleus canadiens
Published by Canadian Peacekeeping Veterans Association
HOW PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS PAVE THE WAY TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE PEACE?
Although peacekeeping and peacebuilding are two different and distinct concepts, yet these are interlinked. According to the UN – the principal global body that keeps peace outlines its peacekeeping activities in the following ways:
Peacekeeping has proven to be one of the most effective tools available to the UN to assist host countries navigate the difficult path from conflict to peace. Peacekeeping has unique strengths, including legitimacy, burden sharing, and an ability to deploy and sustain troops and police from around the globe, integrating them with civilian peacekeepers to advance multidimensional mandates. UN peacekeepers provide security and the political and peacebuilding support to help countries make the difficult, early transition from conflict to peace. UN Peacekeeping is guided by three basic principles:
- Consent of the parties;
- Impartiality;
- Non-use of force except in self-defence and defence of the mandate.
Peacekeeping is flexible and over the past two decades has been deployed in many configurations. There are currently 13 UN peacekeeping operations deployed on three continents.
Whereas, Peacebuilding is a process that facilitates the establishment of durable peace and tries to prevent the recurrence of violence by addressing root causes and effects of conflict through reconciliation, institution building, and political as well as economic transformation. This consists of a set of physical, social, and structural initiatives that are often an integral part of postconflict reconstruction and rehabilitation.
Source: https://allianceforpeacebuilding.org/2013/08/selected-definitions-of-peacebuilding/