He was considered one of the first members of the United Nations to participate in a peacekeeping operation starting in 1947, when he sent a contingent to Korea as part of a United Nations temporary commission on Korea. It is also important to note that Foreign Affairs Minister Lester B. Person had put Canada on the map as the inventor of modern peacekeeping. Created a proposal for a United Nations peacekeeping force to resolve conflict during the Arab-Israeli War over the Suez Canal in 1956. Canada also “contributed over 10% of the United Nations' total military personnel deployed in peacekeeping operations since 1947, more than any other country.” other State". Thus, as Badescu suggests, “Canada has played an important role in the conceptualization and operation of United Nations peacekeeping over the past two decades.” The article then discusses that Canadian peacekeeping has played an important role by developing practical measures to improve the physical and legal protection of civilians to reduce violence and abuse against civilians, which is what defines the Nations today United. Promoting peacebuilding is another detail Badescu talks about. He writes that Canada created a peacebuilding fund in 1998 within the Canadian Agency for International Development, and that Canada was one of the first United Nations member states to support peacebuilding in general. On top of that, Canada currently contributes 180 military and police personnel