Peacekeeping
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It is this participation in
peacekeeping
missions that has led to the resolution of many civil wars.
We should send
peacekeeping
troops to serve those who are facing a civil war.
Congo hosts the largest and most expensive United Nations
peacekeeping
mission in the world.
It was also the site of the first European-led
peacekeeping
mission, and for its first cases ever, the International Criminal Court chose to prosecute Congolese warlords.
In 1994, he was head of the UN
peacekeeping
department.
And recently, or now not that recently, about six months ago, the authorization of a
peacekeeping
force of 26,000 that will go.
And that needs to be recognized, first of all, that
peacekeeping
works.
So we have got to create in this world also institutions for
peacekeeping
and humanitarian aid, but also for reconstruction and security for some of the conflict-ridden states of the world.
To conflicts, it would be U.N.'s
peacekeeping
forces, and so on.
It is now the second-largest funder of UN
peacekeeping
forces, and it participated in UN programs related to Ebola and climate change.
Because NATO and the EU share complementary priorities, both can develop mechanisms for inclusive security cooperation in
peacekeeping
operations.
However, Cyprus remains a conflict zone: there are still fortified streets in Nicosia, a United Nations
peacekeeping
operation patrols the buffer zone, and there is a substantial Turkish military force in the north.
That is why it is incumbent upon us in Japan to reconstruct the legal basis for collective self-defense and international cooperation, including participation in United Nations
peacekeeping
operations – a reform that my administration has begun.
In comparison to the cost of military intervention and peacekeeping, the financial costs here are ridiculously low.
The assumption is that only real pressure will finally force Sudan’s government to embrace the United Nations-African Union
peacekeeping
force, negotiate with the West, disband the feared Janjaweed militia, allow refugees from the country’s brutal civil war to return to their villages, and make peace with Southern rebels.
The US pays a minority share of UN and NATO
peacekeeping
operations, and the legitimacy of a multilateral umbrella reduces collateral political costs to America's so-called "soft" or attractive power - ie, its aid and cultural initiatives.
And now all of our work – financing for development, social spending in rich nations and poor, the Millennium Development Goals,
peacekeeping
– is endangered by the global financial crisis.
Resolving these semi-dormant wars requires stepped-up political involvement, economic engagement, and a willingness to provide Western
peacekeeping
forces and monitors if and when they are needed.
Bosnia is not a
peacekeeping
exercise.
This demands less outright combat and more effective peacekeeping, through strategic decision-making, intelligence gathering, and civil engagement.
Moreover, as Major General Kristin Lund, the first-ever female commander of United Nations field operations, has pointed out, access to the local population is vital to support peacekeeping, and women have access to 100% of the population, compared to only 50% for men – an invaluable advantage for, say, intelligence gathering.
By easing Japan’s longstanding, self-imposed ban on arms exports, boosting defense spending, and asserting its right to exercise “collective self-defense,” the government has opened the path for Japan to collaborate more actively with friendly countries and to pursue broader overseas
peacekeeping
missions.
Failure of the current proposal would mean an effective end to all efforts to reform the UN, with disastrous consequences for people across the world who depend on the aid provided by the UN Development Program, the security provided by the UN’s numerous
peacekeeping
operations, or the myriad other services rendered by UN agencies.
After all, the
peacekeeping
forces in Bosnia can, should they decide to act, arrest Radovan Karadzic and General Ratko Mladic, the leaders of the Bosnian Serbs who have been indicted by the Hague Tribunal.
If Russia is serious about seeking a solution to the conflict, it should be prepared to endorse the deployment of an international
peacekeeping
mission and force.
There certainly are very difficult issues that must be sorted out before a
peacekeeping
mission could go into Donbas, notably the composition and formal mandate of whatever force is deployed.
But Abe’s central objectives – improving Japan’s ability to respond to threats that do not amount to armed attack; enabling Japan to participate more effectively in international
peacekeeping
activities; and redefining measures for self-defense permitted under Article 9 – are actually relatively modest.
After Haiti’s President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was overthrown a few years ago, Brazil’s football team acted as an ambassador for the United Nations’ Brazilian-led
peacekeeping
forces.
Equally well-intentioned UN and EU ideas about introducing an international force to separate Israel and the Palestinians originate with paper-shuffling diplomats, whose previous experiences in
peacekeeping
(say, in Srebrenica or Rwanda) do not inspire confidence.
The fact that Omar al-Bashir, Sudan’s president, is not especially keen to agree to the United Nations’ plan to beef up its
peacekeeping
force in the country ahead of the referendum raises concern about his intentions.
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