1+Australia

**Country:** **Australia**
Taylor O. Period 3 9/16/08

__**Brief Background of Topic:**__
Peacekeeping was first established in 1948 as a way to help countries torn by conflict create the right conditions for lasting peace. Some of the peacekeeping goals included; maintaining ceasefires and stabilizing situations on the ground so that efforts could be made to resolve these conflicts. The missions that these peacekeepers were sent on consisted of military observers and lightly armed troops, who monitered and helped limit peace agreements. Some locations where peacekeeping has been mandatory are; Indonesia, Yemen, Syria, Zimbabwe, and Cambodia, followed by many more.

**__United Nations Involvement:__**
Australia has had help in peacekeeping with the United Nations since 1948. The UN has taken a huge stand on this issue and had helped lead Australia on six multinational operations. Since then the UN has assisted in over 63 UN peacekeeping operations world wide. Today the UN's tasks in peacekeeping involves; helping build sustainable institutions of governance, and monitoring human rights(plus more). The UN has evolved from dealing with inter-State conflicts, to intra-State conflicts and civil wars.

__**Country Policy and Involvement:**__
Australia has been involved with peacekeeping for over 50 years. They have been stationed throughout Indonesia, Korea, Israel, Syria, Zimbabwe, Sinai, Iraq, Bougainville and many others in an effort to stop the violence and destruction. Since they started these actions they have been involved in over six multinational operations. Their opinion on this issue is that the violence has to be stopped and country's need to settle their disputes. As you can see they have been putting a huge effort to keep peace in many different countries//.//

//__**Solutions:**__//
Australia has been involved in peacekeeping for over 50 years and have been very determined to stop the violence, wars, and detstruction world wide, and are doing everything they can to stop it. One major issue Ausralia has with volence is that the military personel they send out do not carry guns or weapons, and they are getting attacked, and shot on their missons. The people that keep the peace should be provided with outfits that provide more protection so that they can continue doing their jobs without the worry of getting hurt. Also they have major dispute with Timor-Leste and how they do not like the revised maritime boundary, and are have fights over it. One way to resolve these issues would be to come together in a meeting to dicuss these issues rather than fight about them.