is peacekeeping a challege for United Nations?
Yes, there are two big problems when the UN tries to keep the peace. One is the awkward fact that the goal of war is peace (“No man goes to war because he hates peace, but rather because he seeks a peace that suits him better,” Augustine). The other problem is a pair of starkly contrasting views on the part of its members as to how states should relate to one another, and what sort of strategy diplomacy ought to follow. I will elaborate on each of these in turn. If you want peace, wage a successful war. Peace between two warring parties comes when one of them no longer has the ability or desire to continue fighting. If that sounds like a hard-hearted and brutal business, it is; wars are bad. There is good reason why we work so hard to avoid them. But once a war starts, the only acceptable way to end it is to win (you do NOT want to lose a war), and then we can start talking about peace. “Peacekeeping” invariably involves intervening between two sides that hadn’t finished fighting it ou
