United Nations Operations in the modern conflicts

Resumo

The United Nations (UN) have been confronted with cycles of repeated violence, weak governance and recurring instability. Even in countries that have successfully implemented peace agreements, political and criminal violence coupled with state fragility may still pose threats to long-term transitions and continue to affect the security of civilians. Furthermore, intrastate conflicts often take on a regionalized or internationalized character, which may make them more deadly – given the ease of access to arms and resources to conflict parties – and harder to be solved. Conflicts are increasingly concentrated in weak or failed states, where state capacity and authority are limited. Conflict parties are increasingly amorphous and transnational, they have loosely defined command structures and growing military capabilities and are motivated by combinations of political, exclusionist, economic, criminal and, in some cases, extremist aims.