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We Did Nothing: Why The Truth Doesn't Always Come Out When The UN Goes In

In recent years our newspapers and televisions have brought us stories of the failure of the UN to keep the peace in the modern world. During the 1990s Linda Polman visited peacekeeping missions in Somalia, Haiti and Rwanda to try and understand how resolutions are made and how the peace is lost.

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medium · 256 pages

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