Is there something unique about the mission that is setting precedent or impacting international law?

For this forum, please visit http://www.un.org/en/peacekeeping/operations/ UN peacekeeping homepage and choose one current or past mission to focus on. For that mission, explain the circumstances that created the need to intervene (background), the purpose of the mission (mandate) and any interesting facts and figures about it. Be sure to use more than one source and incorporate references to course material.  Please be sure to paraphrase and cite the information rather than quoting it. I recommend thinking of it as telling the story behind the mission much like the producers did in the movie Black Hawk Down. What happened and what did the UN do about it? Is there something unique about the mission that is setting precedent or impacting international law?

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