Recurrent attempts at reform and reactivation of the Military Staff Committee since 1948

After acknowledging the failure to set up the structures of the Military Staff Committee (MSC) in July 1948, the permanent members of the Security Council deliberately ignored the committee and for three decades turned their back on any role that it might have. After acknowledging the failure to set up the structures of the MSC in July 1948, the permanent members of the Security Council deliberately ignored the committee and for three decades turned their back on any role that it might have. The MSC was, therefore, absent from all Council decisions and actions concerning peace and security related to military issues from 1948 onward. Reform and reactivation of the committee became another of the United Nations' open-ended reform processes, similar to that of the Security Council. Improving the professional conduct of peacekeeping operations was by then a long-standing concern wherein Canada saw a role for the MSC.