title: Local Conflict, Global Intervention: The Origins of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force
abstract: United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO), which would become the first peace observation mission.UNTSO consisted of several hundred lightly armed troops, under the command of UN Mediator Folke Bernadotte, charged to observe the compliance of Israel and the Arab states with the Armistice Agreements which had set the demarcation lines between the warring parties.However, the peace observers were instructed to remain neutral and could only report breaches of the Armistice lines to the 
journal: Scholarly Commons (University of Pennsylvania)