United Nations peace-keeping force

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United Nations peace-keeping force Military personnel and their equipment placed at the United Nations' disposal by member states. The function of the force is to keep the peace between warring factions anywhere in the world, as requested by the United Nations Security Council. The first UN peace-keeping forces deployed in the Sinai Peninsula and Beirut in June 1948. The greatest deployment of UN peace-keeping forces was in Bosnia during the mid-1990s.

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