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tioned in the Charter of the Uni- - formal request for intervention electoral support, strengthening
ted Nations, however, numerous by the State on whose territory the the rule of law, and economic and
resolutions of the Security Council UN mission (the blue helmets) is social development”, to a more in-
adopted since the early years of hosted; clusive defi nition of peacekeeping
the Organization, have validated a - presence of a truce agreement which widens the spectrum of the
practice fi nally formalized in 1956, between the parties to the confl ict; activities devolved to the Missions,
on the occasion of the Suez crisis. - neutrality with regard to the bel- giving more and more tasks and
Over the time, PKOs have evolved ligerent parties; leaving the space for intervention
and changed their skin. It started - use of armed force limited to also to the civilian component em-
in the years 1960-70 with the per- personal defense tasks. ployed alongside the more conno-
formance of a limited number of We then move on to a rougher de- ted military and police ones. The
civilian tasks carried out at a very fi nition offered by the United Na- equality of the role of the military/
low level, and in any case, always tions: ”Peacekeeping is a way to police, with that of the civilian
functional to the activities of the help countries torn by confl ict to component, was already taken up

A concept introduced by and adapted from Michael S. Lund (Curve of confl ict)
armed forces. It
was essentially the control of the create conditions for sustainable and reaffi rmed by Boutrous Gha-
respect of agreements for the cea- peace. UN peacekeepers, soldiers li in the document “Supplement
sefi re or other peace commitmen- and military offi cers, police and ci- to an Agenda for Peace” back in
ts made by the belligerent parties vilian personnel from many coun- 1995. Leaving aside all the evolu-
(such as the withdrawal of troops, tries, monitor and observe peace tion of peacekeeping from the 90’s
the exchange of prisoners, etc.), processes that emerge in post-con- onwards, we arrive at the most re-
necessary to give time and space fl ict situations and assist confl icting cent defi nition of the present day
to the conduct of diplomatic ef- parties to implement the peace according to the UN.: “United Na-
forts through which the mediation agreement they have signed. Such tions Peacekeeping helps countries
between the parties was mana- assistance comes in many forms, torn by confl ict create conditions
ged. In fact, to start a peacekee- including promoting human secu- for lasting peace. Peacekeeping
ping mission, at that time, the fol- rity, confi dence-building measu- has proven to be one of the most
lowing conditions were required: res, power-sharing arrangements, effective tools available to the UN

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