Social, Cultural and Linguistic Parameters of Peace Operations in Francophone Communities

Abstract

Initially, the Peace Maintenance Operations (PMOs) considered themselves a pale substitute for the UN army as provided for in the San Francisco Charter. In the context of the Suez crisis in 1956, Dag Hammarskjöld extrapolated "Chapter VI bis" to create a force of interposition between the Egyptians and the French, British and Israeli. The United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF), was bom and was the first real peace- enforcement mission, although, strictly speaking, since 1948, the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO), between Israelis and Arabs, has been established with a more modest purpose of interposing and observing the cease-fire (David, 2007).