Soldiers for Peace

This video shows today’s peace-keepers in action and the excitement and logistical challenges in setting up a new force. Shot on location in Fiji, Lebanon, Syria, Iran and Iraq, it follows soldiers from their homes in Fiji to their peace-keeping assignments in southern Lebanon.

• Categories: News & Features / Features
• Video Length: 00:04:31
• Production Date: 25 April 1988
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: JAVIER PÉREZ DE CUÉLLAR; MARRACK GOULDING
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS INTERIM FORCE IN LEBANON - UNIFIL
• Subject Topical: PEACEKEEPERS; PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS
• Geographic Subject: FIJI; LEBANON; SYRIA; IRAN; IRAQ; ISRAEL; PALESTINE; AUSTRIA
• MAMS Id: 2005952
• Parent Id: 838274

Description

Since their inception in 1956, the United Nations peace-keeping forces have been on duty continuously in some of the world’s most sensitive trouble spots. During 1988 two new peace-keeping forces were created: one to monitor the Afghanistan accords, and the other, the Iran-Iraq cease-fire.

In awarding the 1988 Nobel Peace Prize to these heroic forces, the Nobel Committee paid tribute to “their demanding and hazardous service in the cause of peace”.