Essay from the year 2009 in the subject Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict, Security, grade: 1,3, Free University of Berlin (Center for Global Politics), course: International Security, language: English, abstract: Peacekeeping should not go "e;back to basics"e;. The UN provides needed and important mechanisms for peacekeeping which have to be adjusted flexibly as necessary and which have to be determined individually depending on the respective case - especially against the background of a more unstable world facing new threats and forms of warfare.