Non military interventions

• Cyprus:

  • UN peacekeepers monitor the ceasefire and manage the buffer zone
• Cyprus:

  • Peacekeepers work with mediation and confidence building measures such as bicommunal events
• Cyprus:

  • Over 800 peacekeepers
• Peacekeepers:

  • Only uses force in self defence
  • Disarmament and reintergration of former combatants
  • Rebuilding governance and institutions
• Burundi:

  • Held elections in 2014 post ethnic war. Supported by peacekeepers
• Sierra Leone:

  • Mediated peace deal following civil war (1999 - 2005). 75,000 fighters disarmed and over 42,000 weapons destroyed
• Rwanda:

  • UN forces pulled after genocide - did not act
  • 800,000 Tutsi killed
• UN peacekeepers:

  • Depend on agreement from all parties which is not always possible (Gaza)
• UNICEF:

  • Vaccinates 45% of world's children / year.
  • Assisted in reducing child mortality - 12.5m > 5m (2020)