Experts agree: peacekeeping is alive

Canada should view UN Security Council authorization as a necessary condition, but not a sufficient condition, when deciding how and where Canada should act abroad.

Four years ago, David Bercuson, director of the Centre for Military and Strategic Studies, which is partially funded by DND, declared that UN peacekeeping was dead: "As far as UN-led operations,... there just aren't any left in the world today and you ought to really know that. These old Blue Hel...

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