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The document describes an ongoing conflict between Countries A and B over a borderland area with valuable resources. The people living in the area do not identify with either country. Each country began supporting different leaders in the area, exacerbating tensions and eventually causing an internal conflict between the two factions. Countries A and B then sent their own armies into the borderland under the guise of peacekeeping but actually to fight alongside their local allies, intensifying the war. After thousands were killed and injured, the countries agreed to a temporary truce and requested UN peacekeepers to establish a lasting peace agreement. As the peacekeeping force, students must prepare measures to maintain peace in the borderland knowing it is a temporary mission.

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The Contemporary World: Instruction

The document describes an ongoing conflict between Countries A and B over a borderland area with valuable resources. The people living in the area do not identify with either country. Each country began supporting different leaders in the area, exacerbating tensions and eventually causing an internal conflict between the two factions. Countries A and B then sent their own armies into the borderland under the guise of peacekeeping but actually to fight alongside their local allies, intensifying the war. After thousands were killed and injured, the countries agreed to a temporary truce and requested UN peacekeepers to establish a lasting peace agreement. As the peacekeeping force, students must prepare measures to maintain peace in the borderland knowing it is a temporary mission.

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  • Learning Activity
  • Instructions

THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD

Learning Activity:

The United Nations Peacekeepers: Re-enacting their roles, responsibilities. And


Challenges:

Instruction:

Research in Google/Yahoo/any search engine what the United Nations peacekeepers are, the
countries that send these peacekeepers, their responsibilities and the places where they have been
involved in the last 50 years. After familiarizing yourselves with the UN’s peacekeeping function, you
will now be ready to deal with a crisis. Read the scenario below:

Countries A and B have been at war against each other for 50 years over a big area of land that
is located in their borders. The land consists of rainforests, suitable farmlands, and rich mineral
resources. It is also suspected to have oil reserves underground.

The Community that lives in this area is composed of people who have never been clear about
their national loyalties for the simple reason that they do not recognize these borders. They have been
living in the area long before countries A and B had national territories. They, therefore, would like to be
left alone, to “go back and forth” between the two borders.

Countries A and B, however, want to exploit the resources of this borderland. They started
supporting leaders in the community, secretly at first, but later on with open economic assistance. This
association created tensions within the community that soon worsened into open fractional rivalries
between leaders.

The fractional rivalry started over how assistance was to be shared, and then moved to
competition over elected positions. The rivalry took a turn for the worse when Countries A and B began
supplying their allies with arms and military training, especially after they both realized the security
problems this borderland can cause.

It did not take long before conflict between the two fractions came out in the open. This “mini-
war” spread and seriously affected the community, diving families and pitting friends and relatives
against each other.

And then suddenly, the two countries were sending their armies into the border supposedly to
help keep the peace, but in reality, to fight alongside their local allies. The war was intense. Thousands
perished and were injured. But what was clear was that no side was winning.

Eventually, exhausted by the war (Countries A and B began to realize how much resources they
wasted in this war), the protagonists agreed to a temporary truce. They also asked the help of the UN in
terms of bringing in a peacekeeping force to stand between the two sides, and negotiate how to turn
the truce into a lasting peace.
THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD
Your class is that peacekeeping force. List down the things you need to do to prepare for this
mission. Once you have established your presence, think of measures you have to take to keep the
peace, knowing that you will not be there permanently. GOODLUCK 😊

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