![]() peacekeepers, an estimated one million refugees were displaced by escalating violence in the wake of the country's contested November 2010 presidential elections. Despite the presence of more than 9,000 U.N. peacekeeping's inconsistencies, shortcomings, and mounting challenges. Yet, even as this tenuous victory unfolded, the Cȏte d'Ivoire's hellish descent into renewed violence reminded the world of U.N. peacekeeping, which had maintained the armistice there since 2005. South Sudan's January referendum on independence and subsequent peaceful separation from Sudan following years of violence marked a high point for U.N. ![]() ![]() On July 1, 2011, the United Nations welcomed its newest member. ![]()
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