UN intervention
International peacekeeping mission
UN intervention refers to actions taken by the United Nations to address conflicts, humanitarian crises, or threats to international peace.
This ranges from diplomatic pressure and economic sanctions to peacekeeping missions with armed forces: The UN intervention in Kosovo remains controversial.
Such interventions require Security Council authorization, making them subject to veto by permanent members.
Critics debate whether UN interventions constitute legitimate humanitarian action or violations of national sovereignty.
- peacekeepersForces maintaining cease-fires
- blue helmetsHead covers tinted azure
- sanctionsPunitive international restrictions
- ceasefireAgreed halt to fighting
- humanitarianHelper of suffering people
troops · ground forces · mandate · resolution · Security Council · diplomacy · embargo · observers · conflict · sovereignty · boots on ground · neutral · buffer zone · safe corridor · human shields · mission · deploy · rules of engagement
- Congo HistoryBelgian Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kinshasa, Congo River, atrocities
- South Asian Conflictssurgical strikes, militancy, insurgency, border disputes, artillery duels
- conflictclash, fight, war, battle, dispute
- peacemakingnegotiation, mediation, peace agreement, mediate, pacifying
- Horn of AfricaSomalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Mogadishu
- Burundi historyHutu, Tutsi, coups, ethnic conflict, ethnic violence
UN interventionUS invasion
Military entry by America
coalition of the willing · American intervention · gunboat diplomacy · Russian invasion · preemptive strike
UN interventionnon-intervention
Policy of staying uninvolved
standing aside · doing nothing · non-involvement · looking away · abandonment
UN interventionnational sovereignty
State's ultimate governing power
intervention, intervene, intervening, intervened, intervenor, interventionist, interventionism, vent, venture