South Asian Contribution to World Peace:United Nations Peacekeeping

Abstract

South Asia’s contribution to world peace is undisputable proven in numbers of peacekeepers deployed in peacekeeping around the globe. So is South Asia’s commitment to Charter of the United Nations Organization. Despite the above facts, and the large numbers of United Nations Peacekeepers in the field, scholarship on South Asian contribution to world peace is relatively very little. Also regional cooperation is necessary for better representation of South Asian actors at key decision making level to ensure greater regional influence at stakeholder meetings.
This paper discusses the rationales for contribution for UNPKO by South Asian countries. These rationales were developed by non - South Asian scholars for troop contribution by countries. The rationales are, namely the political and security, economic, and normative rationales. The two case studies of India and Sri Lanka elaborate the applicability of these rationales of contribution. South Asia has not explored its fullest potential as troop contributing countries (TCC’s) to UN peacekeeping. The, the overall objective of this paper is to trigger a continuing dialogue on South Asian contribution to UN peacekeeping. The methodology of the research involves utilizing secondary data to develop the arguments.