Canada defending Freedom and Peace
Canada Peacekeeping Actions.
Every year at the end of May, the International Day of UN Peacekeepers is celebrated. Canada has made a tremendous contribution to peace during difficult times for all of humanity. After all, if the rights and truth of one are violated somewhere, everyone is affected.
Since the founding of the UN, Canada has been an active participant in negotiations and attempts to bring peace to unstable regions of the world, and members of the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) have contributed significantly to dozens of peacekeeping operations.
In 1957, the seventh president of the UN General Assembly Lester Pearson was the ideologue of the creation of a UN peacekeeping force to resolve the Suez conflict in Egypt. It was Pearson's work that resolved the crisis as well as ended the 1956 Arab-Israeli War. Pearson was awarded the 1957 Nobel Peace Prize “for his crucial contribution to the deployment of a United Nations Emergency Force in the wake of the Suez Crisis”.
Peacekeepers are neutral international troops. They are sent by UN leaders to countries in turmoil to restore peace. It is the peacekeepers who are in a position to cease fire and facilitate negotiations.
CAF members defend our world and advocate for security around the planet. As part of these efforts, Canadians have been deployed overseas to participate in United Nations (UN), North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and other multinational peacekeeping operations.
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