Developing a Rapid Reaction Capability for United Nations Peace Keeping Operations

摘要

The world is clearly moving towards a market economy and the next decade will see a huge amount of development. Notwithstanding this clear trend the nature and number of conflicts has remained at the same level. The United Nations has undertaken yeoman service, bringing about peace, in a large number of countries of the world. On a number of occasions this deployment assistance came about too late and severe loss of life and colossal damage had already taken place. There is need to examine this from a standpoint of the future. Can we foresee trouble spots and timings of such events and also assess their likely intensity beforehand. To this end there is a requirement of having a good decision making body at the UN, which should include the political and bureaucratic machinery to authorize immediate deployment. At the member nations level appropriate forces must be mentioned to quickly deploy and minimize loss of lives and restore order. The paper aims to examine the decision making process and the mechanism necessary for developing a rapid reaction force capability for United Nations peace keeping operations.