India and the Current Concerns of UN Peacekeeping: Issues and Prospects
Peacekeeping opera tion is amongst the volatile issues in the contemporary debate on the role and activities of United Nations. The United Nations uses the peacekeeping operation as a fire-fighting device, sent to the crisis situations in various corners of the world. It was an innovative method devised by accident rather than by design to deal with the impasse created by the Cold War between the two Superpowers. It began as an unambitious system in 1948 to deal with inter-state conflicts and by late 20th century, it has become a much sought after means to contain, calm and resolve intra-state disputes. The changed circumstances provided a conducive opportunity to finish the unfinished task of resolving some of the remaining inter-state conflicts of the Cold War period. Meanwhile, ethnic cleavages that remained suppressed during the cold-war period erupted, leading to civil war situations and secession movements.
The United Nations in a Changing World
There are times, and this is one of them, when the world, in the absence of some tremendous and immediate threat, seems to wallow helplessly in a morass of dispute and discord. In such times it is easy to lose our sense of the urgent necessity of strengthening and developing further an international order capable of withstanding and containing the crises and conflicts of the future. And it is in times like these that spiritual leadership and inspiration are more necessary than ever.
THE IRON-ACETOCARMINE METHOD OF FIXING AND STAINING CHROMOSOMES
A short description of this procedure was given in Vol. 55 of the American Naturalist, pp. 573â€”574. The method has now been used almost daily for five years, and certain improvements have suggested themselves. The solution can be prepared by mixing about equal volumes of glacial acetic acid and water. To this is added powdered carmine in excess. The liquid is then â€ ? just brought to boil, cooled, and decanted. To the red solution there are then added a few drops of a solution of ferric hydrate in 50 per cent. acetic acid, to act as a mordant. The amount of iron varies with different objects. Too much produces a precipitate in a short time. The more