Peace Keeping 50th
Chapter VII of the U.N. Charter allows for the U.N. Security Council to deploy troops to keep peace in member states.
In addition to Peacekeeping, the U.N. recognizes peacebuilding, peacemaking, and peace enforcement as moderately different modes, even if they might overlap in reality. The distinctions are made for when voting on actions to take and to set the mission scope.
Before a peacekeeping mission begins, a peace settlement or treaty must be decided and agreed upon. Then the parties involved must request the U.N. to handle peacekeeping, usually because one or more of the parties involved locally cannot trust the others not to violate the peace until the situation is stabilized and waring factions have disbanded. After peacekeeping troops have been requested, a department of the U.N. will then plan the details of deploying, controling, and administering troops. This includes requesting and receiving troops from U.N. neutral, unrelated member states – the U.N. doesn’t have its own military. The financing of peacekeeping must be determined. These funds come from volutarity contributions from member states for this specific use.
The first peacekeeping operations was in Israel in 1948 with the creation of the state of Israel. Peacekeepers were called in for the Suez Crisis in 1956. They were used again in 1960, in the Congo (see the Congo Operation album page). They were used successfully in Cambodia, El Salvador, Mozambique, and elsewhere. Canada has assisted in almost every peacekeeping mission, having provided about ten percent of all troops used in U.N. peacekeeping missions, for a total of over one-hundred twenty-five thousand Canadian soldiers and support personnel.
Note
The stamps on the top row commemorate the fiftiesth anniversary of the Univesal Declaration of Human Rights. See the Human Rights page.
The outer stamps on the second row of this album page commemorate fifty years of U.N. peacekeeping missions, since the first mission in 1958 in the newly formed state of Israel. I’m a big fan of the U.N. peacekeeping missions and troops. They should be used much more. The middle stamp on the same row depicts the Geneva headquarters. See Geneva Office.
The set of stamps at the bottom is part of the Endangered Species series. Previous ones mostly depicted animals and birds. You can see another set of them and read more about them on the Endangered Species page.
Contains 9 spots: own 9 – 9 unused, 0 used.
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Stamp Details
The table below lists information about the stamps shown on this page of Lighthouse’s stamp album. For more details about a particular stamp, click on its description. That will take you to the related web page of Colnect.
spot |
own |
catalog |
subject |
description |
comment |
Declaration of Human Rights
✓ |
327 |
0.90 (oct 1998) |
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✓ |
328 |
1.80 (oct 1998) |
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✓ |
325 |
0.70 (oct 1998) |
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✓ |
317 |
2 (feb 1998) |
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✓ |
326 |
0.90 (oct 1998) |
Endangered Species
✓ |
318 |
0.80 (mar 1998) |
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✓ |
319 |
American Flamingo |
0.80 (mar 1998) |
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✓ |
320 |
0.80 (mar 1998) |
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✓ |
321 |
0.80 (mar 1998) |
Footnotes
Spot refers to the postion of the stamp on the album page (e.g., 3.2 indicates row 3, position 2).
Amt. is an abbreviation for the face amount of the stamp.
Own indicates the stamp status: ✓ for unused; ✗ for used or canceled; ⭑ signifies I ordered one; ; ✨ indicates it was bought recently; ✠ means an auction bid is pending; and ◎ is used, and it costs too much for unused.
To search by catalog number, go to the search box and enter it in the catalog number box. However, it’s a bit broken; I need to fix it.
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