What is the legal basis of United Nations peacekeeping operations?
The majority of the later United Nations Missions have operated ‘intra-state’ and seemingly in violation of the principle of the the domestic jurisdiction of states.
By Cleophas Tsokodayi,
One of the most prominent activities of the United Nations is its peacekeeping operations; or in some cases, lack of them. In fact, the term ‘peacekeeping operations’, is now synonymous with the United Nations, and yet the United Nations Charter does not mention, even once, the phrase ‘peacekeeping operations’.