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Why did the U.N. intervene in Bosnia and not Rwanda? This 3 page paper tries to answer that question. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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the genocide in Rwanda. Neither it nor the international community seemed able to devise a way to stop the slaughter. Yet some headway was made when the UN
intervened in Bosnia. Why was intervention made in Bosnia and not Rwanda? This paper tries to answer that question. Discussion The answer to the question may lie
in the problems that the U.N. is having in defining its place in a post-Cold War world (Muldoon, 1995). The United Nations mission is to save mankind from the
"scourge" of a third world war by giving all nations a place where they can work out their disagreements peacefully. With the end of the Cold War, "it seemed
possible that the Security Council might at last be able to perform its duties as the charter intended" (Urquhart, 2004, p. 1). Because the Council helped "legitimize" Desert Storm-the
war that followed the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait-it seemed that it was returning to its mission. However, it soon became clear that most of the conflicts occurring around the
world were no longer between nations, but within them, with the result that the U.N. "was called on to deal with chaos, violence, and massive suffering within national borders, a
task for which the old peacekeeping technique, designed to contain conflicts between states, was not suited" (Urquhart, 2004, p. 1). In other words, the U.N. could handle wars between
nations, but not internal strife, and it was internal conflict that was occurring with increasing frequency. Of 17 U.N. peacekeeping operations based on these old parameters, three were abject failures:
Somalia, Rwanda and Bosnia (Urquhart, 2004). Another part of the puzzle falls into place when we learn that former U.N. Secretary General Boutros Boutras-Ghali "emphasized preventive diplomacy and post-conflict
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