He was considered one of the first members of the UN to participate in a peacekeeping operation beginning in 1947, when he sent a contingent to Korea as part of a temporary UN commission on Korea. It is also important to note that Foreign Affairs Minister Lester B. Person has made Canada known as the inventor of modern peacekeeping. He proposed a UN peacekeeping force to resolve the conflict during the Arab-Israeli War around the Suez Canal in 1956. Canada also "contributed more than 10% of the total military personnel to the UN deployed in peacekeeping operations since 1947, more than any other country. other State”. Therefore, as Badescu suggests, "Canada has played an important role in the conceptualization and operation of UN peacekeeping operations over the past two decades." The article later explains that Canadian peacekeeping operations have played an important role in developing practical measures to improve the physical and legal protection of civilians in order to reduce violence and abuse against civilians, which which defines the UN today. Promoting peacebuilding is another detail Badescu discusses. She writes that Canada created a peacebuilding fund in 1998 within the Canadian International Development Agency and that Canada was one of the first UN member states to support peacebuilding in general. In addition, Canada currently provides 180 military and police officers