Challenges of Modern-Day Peacekeeping

Published April 22, 2009

Peacekeeping holds a special place in the hearts of Canadians. For more than 50 years, Canada has been recognized as a world leader in peacekeeping. Indeed, a Canadian, Lester B. Pearson, is widely credited as being its architect.

Lester Pearson would be surprised by the extent to which the concept he put forward to deal with the Suez crisis in 1956 has changed.

For many decades, peacekeeping...