BRAZIL AND SWEDEN IN PEACEKEEPING MISSIONS AND THE VIKING 2022 EXERCISE

Considering their pacifist foreign policy, Brazil and Sweden share a growing performance and international interest: to participate in peacekeeping missions. Both countries participated in the first stabilization mission from UN in 1948, and, in the case of Brazil, it can be highlighted the one-decade experience in command of the only peace force of eminent maritime component in the world, at Lebanon (FTM-UNIFIL), and thirteen years in the command of MINUSTAH (Haiti). Sweden, in its turn, counts with the particularity of female participation since the beginning of this type of mission, having as focus Africa and Eurasia. In this context and with the closer relationship between the two countries in defence, there is the Viking Exercise, the most extensive international simulation to prepare for peacekeeping missions, where the Swedish Ministry of Defence is the main organizer and Brazil, having participated in the 2018 edition, will participate again in 2022, practising interagency cooperation, internationalisation and the development of capabilities.