Canada and Missions for Peace
Title | Canada and Missions for Peace PDF eBook |
Author | International Development Research Centre (Canada) |
Publisher | International Development Research Centre Books |
Pages | 168 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Canada and Missions for Peace: Lessons from Nicaragua, Cambodia and Somalia
Canada and Missions for Peace
Title | Canada and Missions for Peace PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Miller |
Publisher | |
Pages | 143 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Canada |
ISBN |
Creating Canada’s Peacekeeping Past
Title | Creating Canada’s Peacekeeping Past PDF eBook |
Author | Colin McCullough |
Publisher | UBC Press |
Pages | 273 |
Release | 2016-10-07 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0774832517 |
Peacekeeping. Despite efforts to relegate it to the past, what was once a central pillar in Canada’s national identity has been making a comeback in recent years. Creating Canada’s Peacekeeping Past illuminates how participation in the United Nations’ peacekeeping efforts from 1956 to 1997 became central to national self-identification in both English and French Canada. Delving into four decades’ worth of political rhetoric, newspaper coverage, textbooks, and more, Colin McCullough outlines continuity and change in the production and reception of messages about peacekeeping. He demonstrates that those who produced messages about peacekeeping often overlooked the particularities of individual missions, preferring to link their cultural products to political discourses about national identity. Engaging in debates about Canada’s international standing, as well as its broader national character, this book is a welcome addition to the history of Canada’s changing national identity.
Canada's Role in International Peace Operations and Conflict Resolution
Title | Canada's Role in International Peace Operations and Conflict Resolution PDF eBook |
Author | Canada. Parliament. House of Commons. Standing Committee on National Defence |
Publisher | |
Pages | 133 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Pacific settlement of international disputes |
ISBN |
Pearson's Peacekeepers
Title | Pearson's Peacekeepers PDF eBook |
Author | Michael K. Carroll |
Publisher | UBC Press |
Pages | 253 |
Release | 2010-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0774858869 |
In 1957, Lester Pearson won the Nobel Peace Prize for creating the United Nations Emergency Force during the Suez crisis. The award launched Canada's enthusiasm and reputation for peacekeeping. Pearson's Peacekeepers explores the reality behind the rhetoric by offering a detailed account of the UNEF's decade-long effort to keep peace along the Egyptian-Israeli border. While the operation was a tremendous achievement, the UNEF also encountered formidable challenges and problems. This nuanced account of Canada's participation in the UNEF challenges perceived notions of Canadian identity and history and will help Canadians to accurately evaluate international peacekeeping efforts today.
Explorers for Peace
Title | Explorers for Peace PDF eBook |
Author | Farlinger, Shirley |
Publisher | |
Pages | 24 |
Release | 1985 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780886221911 |
Scarce Heard Amid the Guns
Title | Scarce Heard Amid the Guns PDF eBook |
Author | John Conrad |
Publisher | |
Pages | 500 |
Release | 2017-01-26 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781525237812 |
Scarce Heard Amid the Guns tears the curtain of myth away, providing a rare, visceral inner perspective of the various Canadian peacekeeping missions. ''In the Service of Peace'' - simple words that adorn the obverse of every United Nations medal, yet behind this eloquence lurks violence and an unheralded heroism invisible to an often misunderstood quarter of Canada's military history. The Canadian contribution to peacekeeping is enormous but ensnared in a lethal mythology that has seen it abandoned to popular folklore. From the early and intrinsic Canadian contribution to the U.N. Emergency Force in 1956, through the blur of the frenetic 1990s down to the anemic level of contemporary Canadian participation, it is difficult to make sense of the wide circumference of this significant legacy. Until now. Scarce Heard Amid the Guns provides an incisive perspective on the various Canadian missions: their omnipresent doubt and un-telegraphed terrors. This insider's guided tour of our military at war in peace introduces us to some of the men and women who carried the day - ordinary Canadians who did extraordinary things and continue to bear the scars of forgotten fields in their bones.