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The article reports on Canadian foreign aid to Haiti. The author examines a number of issues including the roles played by the Canadian members of the United Nations peacekeeping in instituting prison reform, public order and law enforcement. Economic conditions on the island are measured and the efficacy of Canadian foreign aid assessed.

Looks at the financial and personnel support that Canada has given to the United Nations to ensure an extension of military presence in Haiti. Canada picking up the slack for American support which ceased on February 29, 1996; Political aspects of aid given by both Canada and the United States; Potential threats to Canadian troops.

Presents an analysis written by Canadian Maj.-Gen. Lewis MacKenzie on the disintegrating situation in Bosnia. His criticism of the way the peacekeeping mission in the former Yugoslavia was established and maintained; His time spent as chief of staff of a 31-nation peacekeeping force; Terrible price paid for the war; Listing of peacekeepers killed.

Focus on events in Bosnia. More than 400 United Nations (UN) soldiers who were taken hostage by the Bosnian Serb army in reprisal for three North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) air strikes; Retreat of the United Nations Protection Force; How the UN has come close to quitting Bosnia; Its impossible position. INSETS: A chaotic spiral;The waiting game back home (families of soldiers) by Scott...;Revamping the army, by Luke Fisher and E. Kaye Fulton.

Offers excerpts from Lewis MacKenzie's book `Peacekeeper: The Road to Sarajevo.' Maj.-Gen. MacKenzie took command of United Nations troops responsible for enforcing an airport agreement that would allow humanitarian aid to be flown into Sarajevo in 1992. Looks back on days of terror and controversy in the war-torn area.

Recounts last weeks landing of the first contingent of US Marines and French troops in Somalia, where they quickly took control of the capital Mogadishu and began guarding warehouses full of food that relief agencies, intimidated by armed gangs of looters, had been unable to deliver. Operation not without civilian casualties; Warlords call for a cease fire; Violence continued in remote parts of Somalia; Growing support for UN military intervention in Yugoslavia.

Reports on conditions in Haiti as the United Nations removes the last of its peacekeeping forces from the country. Benefits of the peacekeeping mission; The lack of government presence in Haiti's countryside and reliance on UN soldiers; Forecasts concerning a slide back into corruption, violence, and anarchy; Comments from Jean-Bertrand Aristide on the need for Haitian independence; Drugs and other problems; Status of the police force; Canada's Brig.-Gen. Robin Gagnon.

Reports on the conquest of the Srebrenica valley in Bosnia by Bosnian Serbs. Separation of young men from other refugees by the Serbs during the conquest; Impact of the conquest on the United Nation's entire peacekeeping mission in the country; NATO's determination to maintain the UN presence in Bosnia; Call by France to retake Srebrenica by force; Paralysis of the Western forces on Serbian aggression. INSET: What to do next? (Anthony Wilson-Smith)..

Reports on the capture of United Nations peacekeeping forces by Bosnian Serbs in retaliation for air strikes on their positions. Nullification of previous agreements with the United Nations; Task to secure the release of hostages; Threats from the international community. INSET: A Canadian perspective..

Reports that in the wake of the collapse of the United Nations brokered accord that was to have returned exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to power, many Haitians are looking for scapegoats. Most are laying the blame at the feet of the UN and the United States, Canada, France and Venezuela. Cowardly behavior of US navy transport ship Harlan County; Mounting incidents of intimidation; Worsening situation; Details. INSET: A shadowy Canadian connection (Lynn Garrison), by B.C..

The article discusses how people are trying to change the gender balance in the United Nations (UN) peacekeeping missions. According to the article, in June 2010 the UN reiterated its campaign of Resolution 1325, which recognized the importance of expanding women's roles in UN operations by pledging to increase the number of female police in peacekeeping operations from eight per cent to 20% by the year 2014. How the UN needs member states to commit to this goal is discussed.

Discusses the Canadian Desert Cats squadron's first sortie in the Persian Gulf War. Controversy over Canada's entry into the war; Canadian pilots' comments about their role in the war and Iraqi treatment of captured coalition pilots; CF-18 Hornet jets and their weaponry; Geneva Conventions; French Mirage F-1 jets; Canada Dry Two base in Qatar; Qatari air mission against Iraq.

Profiles Canadian Major-General Romeo Dallaire, commander of the United Nations (UN) peacekeeping force in Rwanda. Dallaire's public image as hero under attack; The murder of ten peacekeepers; The recommended court-martialling of second-in-command Luc Marchal; Investigation of UN bureaucrats' responsibility and possible attempt to place blame on Dallaire; List of key dates in the crisis; book 'Ten Commandos Will Die.' INSET: Rivers of blood (key dates in the Rwanda crisis).

Reports on the United States Senate's decision to end the United Nations arms embargo against Bosnia if the peacekeepers leave or are asked to leave. Opposition of Canada, Britain, France and other European countries to the resolution; Capture of Zepa by Serbian forces; Bosnian forces' capture of Grahovo and Glamoc; International Criminal Tribunal's indictment of General Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karadzic.

Discusses developments in Bosnia in June 1995. Release of 108 United Nations (UN) peacekeepers taken as hostages by Bosnian Serb militiamen; Crack United States marine commandos' rescue of US Air Force Captain Scott O'Grady; Contingency plans considered by military officials in Ottawa, Canada and other Western capitals for a possible withdrawal of all UN peacekeeping forces.

Examines the failings of concerted and often conflicting efforts by the United States, Europe, the Atlantic alliance and the United Nations to police the new order of peace and humanity proclaimed at the Paris summit in 1990. Frustrations faced since the end of the Cold War; Peacekeeping failures in Bosnia and Somalia; How Bosnia's plight challenges the new world order.

Profiles Canadian Neil Pouliot, who will probably serve as chief commissioner of the United Nations' multinational police force in Haiti. His 32-year RCMP career; His family; His impressive track record; Dangers and problems he will encounter on the violence-scarred island. INSET: Peacekeeping strains (between Canadian parties), by T.W.-S..

Focuses on the bloodshed in the African nation of Rwanda. Leaders of the two main ethnic groups and factions within them that have demonstrated time and again their belief that it is worth fighting to the death for the right to rule the impovershed land; Estimated 250,000 people killed; Reports that brutal politics, rather than tribalism, is behind the bloodshed; Confusion within the United Nations over military intervention.

The article examines intervention by the armed forces of the United Nations (UN) against insurgent forces in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The creation by the UN of a unit of its peacekeeping forces in the country authorized to take offensive action against insurgents is discussed, particularly an August-September 2013 offensive against the March 23 Movement insurgency.

Is there someone out there with a plan on Iraq worthy of the Nobel Peace Prize? You would think the members of the selection committee would be watching this unfolding crisis in somewhat the same way their predecessors did as they monitored the Suez crisis in 1956. When Egypt nationalized the Suez Canal, Israel first, then Britain and France went to the military option ignoring the opposition of the United States. This time, on Iraq, France, among others, is demanding the United States and Britain back off from pulling the trigger. In 1956, Lester Pearson, former secretary of state for external affairs for Canada, stepped into what many feared could be the start of another world war and engineered the way out: a United Nations (UN) peace army acted as a buffer while a settlement was reached. As a result, Pearson won the peace prize. He is the only Canadian honored in this way. Pearson's executive assistant, Torrance Wylie, says his former boss would be quite concerned at what seems to be happening to two of the great organizations Pearson helped create the UN and NATO.

Announces United Nations troops will be sent to war- and famine-plagued Somalia within weeks to replace a US-led force of about 38,000 troops, including 1,263 Canadians. The forces have been protecting relief efforts from rival clan violence.

Reports on a Belgian senate inquiry denouncing Canadian General Romeo Dallaire for his role as commander of the United Nations' peacekeeping forces in Rwanda in 1994. Evidence of his poor judgment leading to the death of soldiers.

Reports on the status of United Nations (UN) peacekeeping troops in Haiti. The various extensions that have been made to the UN mandate that keeps them in the country; The lack of progress in training the Haitian forces to take control of law enforcement.

Discusses the actions of soldiers that took part in the United Nations relief mission that placed the armies of 20 countries in Somalia in 1992-1993. The information about Canadian, Italian, and Belgian soldiers that is surfacing in 1997; The abuse by soldiers heaped upon Somalians; The photographs printed in the Italian newsmagazine, `Panorama'; The comments of torture victim Ali Aden Abukar.

Notes that top Belgian military officials are reviewing training methods in light of revelations that its elite paratroopers committed atrocities during the 1993 United Nations Somali peace mission. Supporting evidence for the atrocities.

Notes that Italy urged the United Nations in 1997 to approve a multinational force to protect aid efforts in war-torn Albania. The number of troops to come from European countries; The Red Cross' entry into Albania from Greece.

Shares the news that Belgian Colonel Luc Marchal was acquitted of murder by default in the 1994 killing of 10 elite Belgian commandos. Fact that Marchal was second in command to Canadian Major-General Romeo Dallaire when he led United Nations peacekeepers in Rwanda; What the court found; Details of the incident.

Indicates that the United Nations Security Council has agreed to keep a Canadian-led peacekeeping force in Haiti for another five months in 1996. By how much troops will be reduced; Agreements about payment for troops in Haiti.

Looks at difficulties in transferring command of the United Nations (UN) mission in Haiti from the United States to Canada. Disagreement by China in the UN Security Council regarding the size and length of the mission; How Canada broke the deadlock by paying for its own UN peacekeeping force.

Ponders whether Canada should take command of a United Nations (UN) force in Haiti. Haitian President-elect Rene Preval's request to the UN, that it extend its presence in Haiti by at least six months, with Canada taking the leadership; Canada's long history of ties with Haiti; Expectation that Ottawa will give its assent to the mission.

Describes the Canadian effort in Bosnia at stabilizing an area near Bihac with a 1,600-member international force. The total military operation comprised of 60,000 troops from more than 16 countries enforcing peace under the leadership of United States General George Joulwan; Canadians preparing to leave, including 750 from Petawa and 175 from CFB Gagetown in New Brunswick; Concerns of Sarajevo's Serbs about living in Muslim-controlled areas.

Reports that Canadian peacekeepers' in Bosnia are angry at the Ottawa government for making them a laughingstock of other peacekeeping nations. Stand-off between Canadian troops and Bosnian government troops in June 1995; Order of the Liberal government to give up the Canadians' position.

Focuses on the United Nations (UN) mission in war-torn Bosnia & Hercegovina. `Mission creep' of the UN; Establishment of safe havens; Deployment of UN troops to protect the safe havens; Unclear objectives of the mission.

Reports that a large number of Canadian peacekeepers are trapped in their base in Visoko due to the continued fighting between the Muslim government troops and militant Serbs in Bosnia.

Narrates the author's experience as a hostaged United Nations peacekeeping soldier by Bosnian Serbs. Number of time captured; Worries concerning the bombing of detention sites; Getting freed.

Reports on Bosnian Serb fighters' holding of many United Nations peacekeeping troops as hostages. Bosnian Serbs' defiance of the United Nations' ban on the use of heavy weapons in and around Sarajevo; Video footage of hostage Patrick Rechner of the Canadian army; French fatalities in a firefight between French peacekeepers and Serbs.

Reports that the Angolan government has agreed to accept 7,600 United Nations peacekeeping troops to monitor a November 1994 accord aimed at ending Africa's longest conflict. Main task of the peacekeepers.

Pictures Canadian soldiers arriving in Haiti, part of a 6,000-member United Nations force from 18 countries that officially took over from United States troops on March 31, 1995. Brief mention of assurances given to Haitians by President Bill Clinton.

Reports that in April, 1995, a United Nations peacekeeping contingent will take over from the United States-led multinational force that established order in Haiti in September 1994. Challenges facing the force; How President Jean-Bertrand Aristide has eradicated the old vestiges of repression in Haiti; Reduction in human-rights violations.

Advises that President Franjo Tudjman, in a major policy reversal, announced that United Nations troops can remain in Croatia until a new mandate is worked out for a reduced peacekeeping presence in the former Yugoslav republic. Brief details.

Reports on the withdrawal of United Nations (UN) peacekeeping forces in Somalia. How the mission, which cost nearly $3 billion, failed in its objective to establish a functioning government in the country; Mass starvation which was halted; Pledge that the UN will not abandon Somalia.

Comments that United States officials said President Bill Clinton was considering sending thousands of US troops to the former Yugoslavia to protect the United Nations peacekeeping force that may have to leave Croatia. The peacekeepers have been directed by Croatia to leave unless they disarm Serbian forces.

States that the United Nations Security Council ordered the dispatch of nearly 7,000 peacekeepers to Haiti by March 31, 1995, replacing the United States-led mission that restored President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to power in 1994.

Advises that the United Nations has requested another 6,000 peacekeeping troops to monitor the latest ceasefire in Bosnia. Current number of peacekeepers there; Spokesman for Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Andre Ouellet that Canada has not yet received the request.

Presents an interview with Maj.-Gen. Romeo Dallaire, former head of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Rwanda. His new job as deputy commander of Canadian land forces; Situation in Rwanda; Launch of the peacekeeping operation; Deployment of troops; World response to tragedies like Rwanda.

Advises that seven Indian peacekeepers were killed and nine wounded when Somali militiamen ambushed a United Nations-escorted convoy near Mogadishu. Number of peacekeepers killed since United States-led forces first entered the Somali capital to end famine and chaos in 1992.

Advises that Ethiopian United Nations peacekeepers took up duties in southwestern Rwanda, where a protection zone for ethnic Hutus who fear reprisals for the massacre of at least 500,000 Tutsis was established by departing French troops. Final death toll which could reach 1.5 million.

Reports that with United Nations Security Council approval, French troops moved into western Rwanda to try to halt the ethnic violence and genocide that have claimed half a million lives in the past three months. But with the Tutsi-led rebel organization accusing the French of merely propping up the Hutu-led government, the troops posted a guard at a refugee camp sheltering 8,000 Tutsis.

Reports that United Nations peacekeepers in war-torn Rwanda, led by Canadian Maj.-Gen. Romeo Dallaire, halted evacuations of trapped civilians after a rebel mortar blast killed a Senegalese officer. Continuing ethnic slaughter; Tentative plans of Canada to send 300 communications specialists to Rwanda as part of a peacekeeping contingent.

Reports that the last major US Army combat unit left Mogadishu, ending the United States' 14-month peacekeeping presence in Somalia. Plans of several other Western contingents to leave; United Nations force which will remain there under Asian and African command.