联合国维持和平行动是联合国根据安理会或联大通过的决议,向冲突地区派遣军事人员以恢复或维护和平的一种行动。其目的是防止局部地区冲突的扩大或再起,从而为实现政治解决创造条件。从1948年6月向中东地区派出联合国巴勒斯坦停战监督组织起,至2015年1月底,联合国已执行了69次维和行动,成功阻止了近100个国家的军事冲突。联合国维和部队成立于1956年苏伊士危机之际,它受联合国大会或 The United Nations peacekeeping operation is an action by the United Nations to send military personnel to conflict areas to restore or maintain peace, based on the resolution passed by the Security Council or the General Assembly. Its purpose is to prevent the expansion or resumption of conflicts in localized areas and to create the conditions for a political settlement. From June 1948, the United Nations Armistice Monitoring Organization of the United Nations was dispatched to the Middle East. By the end of January 2015, the United Nations has conducted 69 peacekeeping operations and successfully prevented military conflicts in nearly 100 countries. The United Nations Peacekeeping Force was founded on the occasion of the Suez crisis of 1956, which was either governed by the UN General Assembly or