THE FILM

With unprecedented access to the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping, The Peacekeepers provides an intimate and dramatic portrait of the struggle to save "a failed state."

KEY ISSUES DVD

- Heads of missions on peace keeping
- Conduct of peacekeepers
- Rapatriating Rwandan rebels
- Protections of civilians
- Food for guns
- Appropriate use of force

STUDY GUIDE

This Study Guide was written to accompany the film The Peacekeepers and the Key Issues DVD in order to assist inprofessional development and training.

DIRECTOR'S COMMENTS Paul Cowen

I would like to take this opportunity to briefly point out why we chose the Congo as the one and only mission treated in the film.

DPKO, at any given time, has about fifteen missions in different troubled parts of the world. MONUC, the UN’s mission to the Democratic Republic of Congo, is the largest and most costly of those operations; it is also the most difficult...

PARTNER

The Pearson Peacekeeping Centre is an internationally recognized peace operations training institution supporting Canada's contribution to world peace and security.