ABSTRACT
The British armed forces have had a long history of involvement in peacekeeping, peace support and peace enforcement operations. Some have been undertaken under United Nations (UN) auspices, such as the UN mission to Cyprus which has been ongoing in various forms since the 1960s or more recently the deployment of forces to Bosnia before the Dayton peace agreement of 1995. 2 Others have been undertaken outside of the United Nations but under the umbrella of a regional body such as NATO's deployments to Bosnia and Kosovo. 3 The United Kingdom has also undertaken such operations alongside such international organisations as the United Nations and a recent example of this has been the British involvement in Sierra Leone since May 2000. 4
