Columbia International Affairs Online
CIAO DATE: 8/5/2007
The UN and Peacekeeping: taking the strain?
2006
Center on International Cooperation
Abstract
The summer of 2006 was open season for political sniping at United Nations peace operations, bookended by wrangling over the Darfur conflict and the Israel/Hizbollah conflict in the Lebanon. In early June, a delegation of Security Council ambassadors visited Sudan to negotiate the deployment of around 15,000 troops to Darfur. They were promptly followed by the organisation’s Under-Secretary General for Peacekeeping, Jean-Marie Guéhenno. But a combined total of a month’s negotiations failed to deliver any deal.
