Abstract
Hammarskjöld’s death in 1961, the Congo quagmire and the UN’s concomitant financial crisis placed the Organization’s efforts to improve the conceptual and practical foundations of peacekeeping in cold storage. U Thant did not display his predecessor’s drive to strengthen the intellectual underpinning of the UN’s work, and the deaths of 250 peace keepers and international staff in the Congo constituted a profoundly chastening experience for the Secretariat.
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© 2003 Neil Briscoe
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Briscoe, N. (2003). Strengthening Peacekeeping, 1961–64. In: Britain and UN Peacekeeping 1948–67. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230005730_6
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