Peacekeeping
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With its
peacekeeping
mandate due to expire on April 4, France may decide to leave.
Even including related programs and organs (like the UN Development Program and the office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees), as well as
peacekeeping
activities (which involve more than 110,000 international military, police, and civilian personnel), the UN system’s total cost is still only around $30 billion a year.
The UN
peacekeeping
force in Congo, MONUC, has a mandate from the Security Council for full intervention in order to provide protection to the civilian population.
The UN’s Mandate GapThe United Nations
peacekeeping
operations now underway in Lebanon offer a big opportunity for the UN to demonstrate its relevance and impact on the world stage in the 21st century.
The terrible French
peacekeeping
experience in Bosnia in the early 1990s, in which France lost 84 soldiers serving in a humanitarian capacity under restrictive ROEs, justifies their fears.
That is only the military aspect of the
peacekeeping
effort.
Today, as a universal institution, the UN plays a crucial role in legitimization, crisis diplomacy, peacekeeping, and humanitarian missions, but its very size has proven to be a disadvantage for many other functions.
For example, Dag Hammarskjold seized the opportunity of the Suez Crisis created by Britain and France’s invasion of Egypt in 1956 to persuade governments to create
peacekeeping
forces – an institution that is not mentioned in the UN original charter.
But, while there are currently more than 100,000 troops from various nations serving in UN
peacekeeping
missions around the world, member states are not providing adequate resources, training, and equipment.
For Europe, this means that money that would otherwise go to
peacekeeping
and humanitarian assistance can largely be saved and used in part for development.
In return, new arrangements should call on emerging countries to contribute more to addressing climate change, paying for
peacekeeping
and state-building, promoting free trade, and sanctioning those who support terror or develop weapons of mass destruction.
The seemingly endless Bosnia
peacekeeping
force is a case in point.
Except for the British and very small elite units elsewhere, most European troops are not trained well enough for combat, or even for
peacekeeping
in dangerous places.
In 2004, Operation Althea took over from the NATO
peacekeeping
force in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The persistence of civil wars, periodic failure of ceasefires and mediation efforts, and protagonists that are sometimes warlords and rapacious militias – rather than states capable of making rational decisions – all add to the difficulty of conflict resolution by diplomatic means and traditional
peacekeeping.
Moreover, members of the UN
peacekeeping
force were expelled, and later readmitted to the territory.
The United Nation
peacekeeping
force in the Congo, MONUC, is the UN’s largest and most expensive intervention anywhere in the world.
Georgians today hardly feel supportive of their president, Mikheil Saakashvili, who, in a foolish attempt to regain control over South Ossetia, provoked Russia to drop its
peacekeeping
mission in the region and turn its full military might to pushing Georgian troops out of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, and then to occupying much of Georgia.
It is also easy to predict that donor governments will be looking carefully at the ever-growing expenditure on the United Nations’ 14
peacekeeping
operations around the world.
Lebanon could return to the democratic track, and Hezbollah might use democratic, not military, politics as its survival strategy in the newly sovereign Lebanon, especially if an international
peacekeeping
force were consensually allowed to demilitarize the Golan Heights.
A new study for the Copenhagen Consensus project that includes the first ever cost-benefit analysis of United Nations
peacekeeping
initiatives concludes that military might is an important tool for reducing bloodshed around the world.
Even so, the cost effectiveness of aid alone is outstripped by the use of
peacekeeping
forces.
Compared with no deployment, spending $100 million on a
peacekeeping
initiative reduces the ten-year risk of conflict from around 38% to 16.5%.
The amounts needed for development, peacekeeping, and climate adaptation and mitigation will be enormous, and we have been debating for years the appropriate level of aid.
This horrible conflict is being addressed through threats of military force, sanctions, and generally the language of war and
peacekeeping.
Hopes were high that Cambodia had been set on a transformative path by the success of the United Nations peace plan, the huge
peacekeeping
operation that followed, and the remarkably peaceful election of 1993 (in all of which Australia played a leading role during my time as Foreign Minister).
Europe's military means may be limited, but it has important experience in
peacekeeping
and "state building" that can be brought to bear.
NATO
peacekeeping
troops were not directed to stop the abductions, disappearances, retaliation killings, and massive property destruction by groups of ethnic Albanians, which led to a vast reverse ethnic cleansing of the non-Albanian (mainly Serb) population.
It has engaged in the Balkans, Africa, the Middle East, and Afghanistan, as well as South-East Asia with its Aceh
peacekeeping
mission, and more recently in the Caucasus and in the Indian Ocean.
The international community should recognize that military, security, and
peacekeeping
operations are costly and will not succeed in the absence of new, innovative, and integrated strategies for economic reconstruction.
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