CHALLENGES BEFORE UNITED NATIONS PEACE KEEPING OPERATIONS: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS

The very purpose of establishing United Nations in after the end of the Second World War was to herald an era of peace in the world. There was in the United Nations charter a provision for United Nations peace keeping operation to be used in the war torn regions or nations. Constituted by the member countries the operations will be under the aegis of the United Nations. The predicament of these operations lies in the fact that after the war is over, UNPK operations will be deployed to maintain peace. There is no provision for peace making operations. There are a myriad challenges before it in order to make these effective as the operations from the second world war to the present in various regions of the world. The present article deals with all these challenges.