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In the 1980s and early 1990s, UN peacekeeping forces have helped resolve several violent regional conflicts. They negotiated ceasefires in Central America, the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988), Cambodia and many others but new missions were not without problems. The UN was then followed with a string of failures as they begun to misjudge most of the conflicts. For example, in 1991 the UN sent only about 500 military and police observers into Angola, where a fragile truce had been declared in civil war between government supporters and rebels (Microsoft Encarta, [Online], 2003). Rachel Neuwrith also reports that, the UN has failed to respond to the mass murders of millions and arrest of human rights violators. For example, two million people were starved to death in North Korea and it has as well failed to stop the spread of WMD in Pakistan, North Korea, Syria, Egypt, Iraq and Libya. It also failed to prevent the slaughter of 800,000 Tutsi and Hutu in Rwanda (United Nations: a failed organization, Michnews, [Online], 2004). Consequently, it can be concluded that the peacekeeping organisation has failed to fulfill its purpose of maintaining international peace and security hence limiting the possibilities of eliminating war worldwide.
In conclusion, after analysing the major causes of war, the conflicts that have taken place due to those causes and the failed actions taken by the peacekeepers to bring peace, it can be noted that wars can not be eliminated out of this world. Just as Jeanette Winterson said, “After every ''victory'' you have more enemies” (Anti-war Quotes, [Online], 2002), stating that war is like a cycle which never ceases but continues to go on and on.
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