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Article: U.N. chaos-fixing failure is NGO challenge; multinational groups meet to plan strategy.(United Nations; non-governmental organizations)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- March 24, 1995
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Peacemaking and humanitarian intervention as we have known them in recent years are in big trouble. Many little hot wars have replaced the four decades of the Cold War, spawning new strategies and concepts of conflict mediation and even a nascent industry.
But the methods used by the United Nations for dealing with the explosion of ethnic and religious conflicts in the early and mid-1990s have proved tragically ineffective.
Relative U.N. successes in Namibia, El Salvador, Mozambique and Cambodia have been overshadowed by major failures elsewhere.
Partly by design and partly default, nongovernmental organizations are emerging as the principal vehicle for ...