UNMEE in Ethiopia and EritreaIntroductionIn June 2000, after two years of border conflict, Ethiopia and Eritrea agreed to a cessation of hostilities organized by Algeria and the Organization of African Unity (OAU). In July, the Security Council established the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE), and in September, UNMEE was authorized by the Council to ensure compliance with security commitments and monitor the cessation hostilities. UNMEE was the most recent case of a traditional peacekeeping operation deployed from 2000 to 2008. The paper analyzes the change in UNMEE's mandate and the challenges the mission faced. What were the main points of the mandate (if any)? First of all, the original UNMEE mandate is almost the same as that of the Cessation of Hostilities Agreement. Guttry (2000, p. 83) states that "in addition to committing to an immediate cessation of hostilities, in the agreement both sides formally requested the UN to deploy a peacekeeping mission under the auspices of the OAU”. Its mandate was to cooperate with both sides of the conflicting nations, maintain a cessation of conflict, and support a future peacekeeping operation (Bellamy and Williams 2010). Apart from self-defense in the event of attack, the operation was not entitled to any use of armed force to achieve the mission objective (Gutty 2000). The mission was therefore to monitor rather than act. Has the mandate changed over time? The adjustment of resolution 1430 of 14 August 2002 brought the mandate of UNMEE to support the Boundary Commission in the execution of its delimitation decisions in an orderly and expeditious manner. manner, involving the following task “clearance of key areas to support demarcation; and administered...... middle of document ...... his inability to archive his own goals and accomplish broader tasks or actively contribute to conflict resolution due to a conductive environment was limited by the decision of non-cooperative parties in Ethiopia and Eritrea. Thus, UNMEE was less effective in resolving conflicts, but it helped prevent war to some extent. Bibliography:Bellamy, AJ and Williams, P. 2010. Understanding Peacekeeping. Polity.Guttry, A. 2008. The United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea [Online]. Available at: http://web1.sssup.it/pubblicazioni/ugov_files/101667_Andrea%20de%20Guttry%20UNMEE.pdf [Accessed April 1, 2014]. Security Council. 2002. Security Council adopts resolution adjusting the mandate of the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea [Press release], August 14. Available at: http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2002/sc7481R1.doc.htm [Accessed April 1 2014].