1. INTERVENING IN CONFLICTS BLUE HELMETS, NATO, AND CONFLICTS IN FORMER YUGOSLAVIA

2. BLUE HELMETS IN 1956, LESTER B. PEARSON PROPOSED SENDING UN TROOPS TO ACT AS A PEACEKEEPING FORCE IN EGYPT DURING THE SUEZ CRISIS. UN PEACEKEEPERS COME FROM MULTIPLE COUNTRIES. FOR PEACEKEEPERS TO INTERVENE THEY MUST: NOT USE FORCE, MUST REMAIN NEUTRAL AND MUST BE IMPARTIAL.

3. BLUE HELMETS (CONTINUED) FACTORS THAT LIMIT EFFECTIVENESS: - DISAGREEMENTS AMONG MEMBERS. - LIMITED FINANCES OF THE UN

4. NATO NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION. CURRENTLY 28 MEMBERS. FOUNDED IN 1949. CANADA, FRANCE, UK AND THE USA ARE SOME OF THE MEMBERS. Source: http://www.nato.int/icons/natologo.gif

5. NATO (CONTINUED) NATO IS A POLITICAL AND MILITARY ALLIANCE. PRINCIPLE OF MUTUAL DEFENSE. IT MAINLY OPERATES IN COUNTRIES THAT AREN’T MEMBERS OF NATO. NATO troops in Afghanistan Source: http://static.bbc.co.uk/history/img/ic/640/im ages/resources/events/nato_increases_the _number_of_troops_in_afghanistan.jpg

6. INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNALS AND WAR CRIMES

7. YUGOSLAVIA

8. MARSHALL TITO RULED YUGOSLAVIA AS A COMMUNIST DICTATOR FROM 1953 TO 1980. YUGOSLAVIA WAS ETHNICALLY DIVERSE: SLOVENES, CROATS, SERBS, ALBANIANS, MUSLIM BOSNIANS, MONTENEGRINS AND MACEDONIANS LIVED IN THE TERRITORY.

9. ETHNIC CONFLICTS AFTER TITO’S DEATH IN 1980, REPUBLICS IN THE TERRITORY BEGAN TO PUSH FOR INDEPENDENCE. CONFLICTS AROSE BECAUSE OF LONG-STANDING ETHNIC TENSIONS AND NON- RECOGNITION OF A TERRITORY’S INDEPENDENCE. Source: http://static.guim.co.uk/sys- images/Guardian/About/General/2011/8/3/13123 96165004/The-ruins-of-Vukovar-1991-007.jpg

10. BOSNIAN WAR (1992-1995) Devastation in Sarejavo, capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina Source: https://www.google.ca/search?q=sarejavo&oq=sarejavo&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.2230j0j4& sourceid=chrome&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8