India’s Contribution towards Technological Development of the United Nations Peacekeeping Operations

The Second World War created many apprehensions as the world had not witnessed catastrophe of that scale before. It raised many concerns for global peace, and led to the creation of United Nations (UN) primarily to prevent the world from the scourge of the Third World War. The UN Charter mandates the creation of a peacekeeping force for securing and creating conditions for lasting peace within the states and between the states. Since then, we have witnessed many ups and downs in the global order. There have been times when somehow war of a global scale was prevented. However, the content of conflict from the formation of the UN has fundamentally changed; besides traditional peacekeeping there are new dangers seen today. The technological development itself has changed the way we look at peacekeeping besides the changing approach of ‘peace’ itself.