Zusammenfassung der Ressource
CANADIAN
Peacekeeping Role
- The Suez Crisis
- Eygpt
- Suez
Canal
- Egypt Seizes Control in 1956 after
increasing tention between other
countries
- Britain and France are not pleased
- Israel invades Egypt and pushes toward Suez Canal
- plan to retake Suez
Canal Forcefully
- Gaza
Strip
- Sinai
peninsula
- Gained full independence after WWII
- Canadian Armed Forces
- served in Egypt
of over 50 years
- Peaceful and did not
engage in Combat
- Provided services such as
transportation,
communication, supply, and
health care for UN soldiers
- years of operation
- 1973-1979
- 1956-1967
- Important
people
- Lester B. Pearson (Canada's
Minister of external affairs)
- Prime Minister
of Canada
- Awarded Noble Peace Prize for
proposing plan for peace in Eygpt
- lieutenant-general E.L.M "Tommy" Burns
- United Nations (UN)
peace missions
- Canada goes to Suez Canal to
end conflicts between the
British/French and Eygypt
- Canadian Minister of external affairs
proposes the creation of a
multinational armed forces group to
bring peace back to Egypt
- Peacekeeping in
Somalia
- Horn of Africa
- Somalia
- society and government is tribal based
- country wide civil war started in 1990's and rival
gangs threatened many lives
- became nation in 1960
- Years of operation
- 1992-1993
- UN peace
mission
- bring stability to the region
and provide relief supplies to
the despirate
- Canadian role in the
peace mission
- disarming land mines
- escort famine relief convoys
- destroy
confiscated
weapons
- 20 countries participate in Somalia mission
- Canada
- United states of America
- conflict could not be resolved and UN
forces withdraw
- Ethiopia and
Eritrea
- years of
operation
- 2000-2003
- Horn of Africa
- Ethiopia
- Eritrea
- Conflict and
problems
- during WWII,
Eritrea did not
want to be part
of of a political
federation
- Became independent from Ethiopia in
1990 after a civil war but violence
occurred because of arguments
between borders
- In 1998, Ethiopia and Eritrea went to war
with each other.
- peace treaty declared in year 2000
- 100 000 fighters and civilians died
- 650000 residents became refugees
- The U.N Peace effort
- Monitor the terms of the peace treaty
- set up security zones in both countries until
borders are agreed upon
- promote peace, trust,
and security
- Canadian Armed forces begin support in 2000
- 450 soldiers participate
- Armored Reconnaissance,
Mechanized Infantry,
engineer troops, support
- Ensure both Ethiopia and Eritrea withdrew from
conflict/dispute so security zones can be secured