La contribución de América Latina a la construcción teórica de las operaciones de mantenimiento de la paz

Abstract

Latin America has been a geographical area that has received little attention from the international community. Neither has been rich enough to participate as a global actor and so poor as to require additional efforts by the UN and other International Organizations. It was, therefore, from this point of view, a forgotten. However, under Operations Peacekeeping framework, the experience carried out during major conflicts that ravaged Central America during the 80s and 90s and the permanent crisis of some states allowed active participation of UN led to developments that were tested in this part of the world and then exported to others, so check their successes. In this sense, it was the region where the Secretary General was tested as a political organ maintenance of peace. It was Central America where for the first time, the UN established a simultaneous military deployment in several states. It was in El Salvador where for the first time there was an active monitoring of human rights by international officials, or was in Guatemala where the General Assembly assumed the political leadership of an operation of peacekeeping as operation of multidimensional peacebuilding. This paper discusses these issues with a historical dimension, but above all, with a future legal and political dimension. (English) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]