Appraising India's Role in United Nations Peace Keeping Operation in Africa
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2017
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Assumption University e-Journal of Interdisciplinary Research
Abstract
India has long invested in promoting goodwill among African states by participating in
United Nations Peace keeping operations. India is the third largest contributor of personnel to
UN peacekeeping operations and has contributed to various missions across the world
including in Somalia, Mozambique, Angola, Sierra Leone, and more recently, the Democratic
Republic of Congo and South Sudan. As part of a broader push to build stronger ties to African
countries, India has redoubled its commitment to peacekeeping efforts over the past decade, and
in the views of many in the UN peacekeeping system, the capacity of Indian peacekeepers makes
them essential to any peacekeeping effort on the continent. India also possess the capacity to
provide well trained troops who are accustomed to operating in a diverse array of terrain. In
addition, the paper will assess India’s strategy of using peacekeeping as a tool of foreign policy.
This paper will assess the role of India in the South Sudan Crisis. The paper’s source of data will
be essentially secondary involving books, journals; articles on the subject matter under review.
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Africa, India, United Nations, Peacekeeping