In chapter five, Goldstein discusses the issues of the UN and how its reforms were going through quite a lot in the 1990s in order to try and restore peace. "Having gone from famine to feast in the mid-1990s, the United Nations had a bad case of institutional indigestion." Throughout 1995 and 1999, the UN had put together and ignited two peace operations in eastern Croatia and Haiti. Goldstein also discusses a story about a UN worker and his experience within the UN, Kofi Annan. Throughout this chapter, Goldstein revolves it around peacekeeping and how the peace was kept and how it was tried to be kept.
In chapter six, Goldstein discusses the fourteen UN peacekeeping missions worldwide in 2011 and how much each one of them have varied up till this present day. Goldstein brings up the mission that occurred in Sierra Leone and how it was removed from the list because the peacekeepers from there basically quit. Along with Sierra Leone, Goldstein mentions that the five big African missions are slowly going to become like Sierra Leone and the peacekeepers are going to leave and chaos is going to break out.
In chapter seven, Goldstein introduces a story about his friend, Jerry Bender visiting Angola's while the war was going on there. He mentions that everything there was quite unsettled and the price valued had depreciated greatly. "The war and the government's misguided economic policies had destroyed the money economy, despite the funds pumped into each side by exports of oil and diamonds, respectively." Angola had suffer from a civil war and has up to this day, continued suffering. Goldstein also discusses how the world's task in trying to reduce war, has been greatly undone and something that the UN has not considered or at least, their tactic aren't really working.
In chapter eight, Goldstein focuses more on the aims for peace movements being worked on. "I have lived through four waves of peace activism in the United States." If peace is really wanted to its fullest potential, then you must work incredibly hard for it because it is by far, not going to be served on a silver platter. Goldstein recalls his first big peace movement in San Francisco when tens of thousands of people went screaming into the streets to end the Vietnam war.
I agree that peace will definitely never be served on a silver platter. Unfortunately, we are far from achieving peace in many parts of the world because not enough people realize the state of the world and all its atrocities... Sad truth. But then again, so many revolutions are taking place across the globe right now for that very same reason.
ReplyDeleteThis author is a shill. Last I checked, the UN has stood by through countless predicted massacres. Where were they? The "war on war" is as big a failure as the "war on drugs."
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