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Yesterday, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appointed an experienced female Swedish police officer as the top United Nations police official. “The UN’s top cop is a woman,” Mr. Ban told reporters in New York, noting that today’s announcement of Ann-Marie Orler as UN Police Adviser coincides with International Women’s Day. Ms. Orler, who first came to the UN to serve as Deputy Police Adviser in

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UN Photo/Marie Frechon New York Times By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN and JOSH KRON NAIROBI, Kenya — The United Nations will begin withdrawing peacekeeping troops from Congo by June to hand control of the country’s security back to the Congolese, officials with the United Nations mission to Congo said Thursday. The officials said they would still keep thousands of troops in Congo’s troubled east,

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The POM has a new look and updated information on all three missions (Haiti, Sudan, Afghanistan).   The Peace Operations Monitor is a source of information about the mandates, multifaceted composition, structures, performance and challenges of UN and other peace operations. Go to the site

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This ground-breaking report by the Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs (CDFAI) Institute urges Canada to reconsider and rejoin UN peace operations. The authors Jocelyn Coulon and Michel Liégeois, PhD argue that peace operations in the twenty-first century are different from those in the period between 1950 and 2000 and that with clearly understood terms of reference, Canada should return its

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The Force Commander of the United Nations Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), Major General Floriano Peixoto Vieira Neto, updated reporters yesterday (18 February) on the security situation in the earthquake-devastated country.

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 UN Photo/Marco Dormino On Friday, 19 February the UN Security Council is expecting a public briefing from Emergency Relief Coordinator John Holmes and the head of the Peacekeeping Department, Alain Le Roy, on the humanitarian situation in Haiti and the work of the UN Stabilisation Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH). The meeting is expected to be followed by informal consultations. While no immediate

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KHARTOUM (Reuters) - International peacekeepers in Sudan's Darfur region received their first five military helicopters on Tuesday, ending a more than two-year wait for air support in a strife-torn territory the size of Spain. Military commanders and activists have repeatedly called on Western powers to provide tactical helicopters for the joint U.N./African Union UNAMID peacekeeping force

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By EDITH M. LEDERER (AP), UN Photo/Marco DorminoUNITED NATIONS — Sixteen countries have offered to provide the 3,500 extra troops and police officers that the United Nations requested to beef up security in Haiti and ensure aid is delivered to earthquake victims, the U.N. peacekeeping chief said Thursday.A week after the Jan. 12 quake devastated the Haitian capital and surrounding area, the U.N.

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The governments of Canada and the Netherlands have handed over equipment valued at more than 12 million U.S. dollars to the Uganda Police Force towards peacekeeping efforts in Darfur. A statement from the Canadian Embassy in Nairobi said on Wednesday the in-kind contribution consists of armored and non- armored vehicles, tents, and engineering, logistical, medical, dental and protective

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Great piece in the Ottawa Citizen on RCMP Chief Supt. Doug Coates' contributions to peacekeeping and to MINUSTAH, the United Nations’ stabilization mission in Haiti. Read the article

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Presented by Dr. Walter Dorn Associate Professor of Defence Studies at the Royal Military College of Canada and the Canadian Forces College UN peacekeeping missions must monitor belligerent forces, verify ceasefires, spot human rights abuses, catch sanctions busters, and hold violators accountable in conflict zones. To help with these difficult tasks, air- and spacebased observation is playing a

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Source: FOCUS Information Agency Brazil is looking to send hundreds more soldiers to its UN peacekeeping deployment in Haiti, potentially doubling the unit to 2,600 men, the defense ministry said in a statement, AFP reported. If Congress approves the ministry's request, Brazil could immediately send 900 personnel -- 750 soldiers and 150 police -- to boost the 1,260 Brazilian peacekeepers

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The UN approved a recommendation by Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to boost UN troop numbers in Haiti by 2,000 for six months, and UN police numbers by 1,500. Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon says Canada is constantly re-evaluating its role and stands ready to commit more police and security forces to Haiti as soon as UN authorities "signal that conditions allow this." Photo:

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UN chief Ban Ki-moon has asked the Security Council to approve 3,500 more peacekeepers for Haiti -- a nearly 40% increase -- to help cope with the chaos that followed last week's earthquake. Diplomats said they expected a vote in the 15-nation council tomorrow to authorize the temporary boost for the UN mission. The secretary-general briefed the Security Council in a closed-door session Monday

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For Immediate Release Media Advisory January 15, 2010 More than ever before MINUSTAH, the UN peacekeeping force in Haiti, needs the support of countries like Canada to ensure security in the aftermath of this week’s earthquake. “Long term security and political stability in the country must be ensured by a legitimate, credible and multilateral force approved by the UN Security Council,”

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by James Traub Hedi Annabi, the U.N. special representative killed in the earthquake, may not have been known to the public, but his mission stabilized a lawless Haiti—and his peacekeepers are leading the effort to save Haitians trapped in the rubble today. It appears, as of this writing, that Hedi Annabi, the United Nations’ special representative in Haiti, was one of the thousands, or

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By JOHN HEILPRIN The Associated Press UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. chief said 16 U.N. personnel were confirmed dead late Wednesday in the earthquake that decimated Haiti's capital, with 100 to 150 U.N. workers still unaccounted for, including the mission chief and his deputy. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced that 11 Brazilian peacekeepers and five international police officers — three

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British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's office said Britain and the U.S. had agreed to intensify their joint work to tackle "the emerging terrorist threat" from both Yemen and Somalia in the wake of the failed Detroit attack on Christmas day. On Somalia, Brown's office said he and Obama "believe that a larger peacekeeping force is required and will support this at the United Nations (UN) Security

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Source: Center on International Cooperation This report presents new and past research and essays on robust peacekeeping operations by CIC staff, as well as by guest contributors including Jean-Marie Guéhenno, Lakhdar Brahimi and Salman Ahmed, William Durch, and Ian Johnstone Click here to read the report

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By Sandro Contenta , GlobalPost Photo: Dave Chan/Reuters There are moments in a country’s history when collective myths become so divorced from reality that almost everyone can hear them burst with a pop. It happened last week in Canada, when stories in the media proclaimed the end of a national identity as peacekeepers, and the birth of one as warriors. This is no small change. Canada

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Since 1999, an increasing number of United Nations peacekeeping missions have been expressly mandated to protect civilians. However, they continue to struggle to turn that ambition into reality on the ground. This independent study examines the drafting, interpretation, and implementation of such mandates over the last 10 years and takes stock of the successes and setbacks faced in this endeavor

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From the Financial Times China convened an unprecedented conference on international peacekeeping in Beijing yesterday, in a sign it is seeking to shape the future of an area in which it plays a rapidly growing role. The ministry of national defence has invited Alain Le Roy, United Nations undersecretary-general for peacekeeping operations, military officials and defence attachés from many

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Source: CBC news Canada's deep commitment to peacekeeping is highlighted in a $15-million program, now in its third year, to train African peacekeepers. Since the dramatic failure of the U.S.-led peacekeeping mission in Somalia in the early 1990s, where many peacekeepers were killed, Western militaries have shied away from the continent, handing over peacekeeping duties instead to their less

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Media Advisory For Immediate Release November 10, 2009 Ottawa, ON – Peacebuild’s Peace Operations Working Group today released an analysis that shows that Canadian contributions to United Nations peacekeeping operations (UNPKOs) have declined dramatically in recent years. “During the Cold War, Canada was the top troop-contributing country to United Nations peacekeeping operations, providing

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The Dutch Minister for Development Bert Koenders is secretly exploring the possibility of sending Dutch peacekeeping forces to conflict zones in Africa, the Dutch newspaper Algemeen Dagblad (AD) reported today. According to AD, these tasks could be carried out without the cooperation of European countries and NATO. The countries which are being looked into are Sudan, Somalia and the Democratic

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Last Sunday, the UN head of Peacekeeping Alain LeRoy said that the lack of much needed aircraft that U.N. member states were meant to donate has hampered the ability of a Congo peacekeeping force to protect civilians. "We are still lacking, I think, 16 military helicopters. And we are still lacking a C-130. We are requesting that from many member states," Alain Le Roy told Reuters during a

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By David Pugliese, Ottawa Citizen, Photograph by: Canwest News Service, Handout An RCMP veteran of international missions is warning that Canadian police injured in Afghanistan and on other foreign deployments could be left high and dry by the organizations that sent them overseas. Eric Rebiere, a retired RCMP constable, was on Parliament Hill earlier this week to protest what he calls the

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The Fourth Committee (Special Political and Decolonization) met on October 27 to continue its general debate on the whole question of peacekeeping operations in all their aspects. In his statement to the Committee, Canada's representative -– on behalf of the CANZ group (Canada, Australia, New Zealand) -– stressed the need for a consensus from member states on robust peacekeeping, the protection

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This course examines the nature of cotemporary civil wars and the challenges of stabilization, reconstruction and recovery encountered by modern international peace operations/peacebuilding missions. It will trace the origins and evolution of today’s expansive international interventions to support war to peace transitions in places such as Afghanistan, Liberia, Kosovo and elsewhere. It will

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 Read the report on Support for AU peacekeeping which was produced by Security Council Report prior to yesterday's debate at the Security Council on support for AU peacekeeping. The report explores key recent developments, key issues and council dynamics with regard to this issue

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Suspected Taliban militants shot and killed a Pakistani army brigadier and his driver in the capital on Thursday as the military continued a major offensive against the insurgents in their strongholds near the Afghan border. (photo AP) Militants shot and killed Brigadier Moin-ud-din Ahmed, deputy force commander of the United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS), who was on vacation in Islamabad.

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Canada is one of the biggest supporters of the Bamako peacekeeping school, contributing more than $2-million for its construction and development since 2007 and sending several Canadian military officers to help with training and management at the school. The Pearson Peacekeeping Centre in Canada is one of the school's main partners. Read the article (photo and article: The Globe and Mail)

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The African Peace Support Trainers Association (APSTA) was established in Pretoria, South Africa, in October 2002, as the African Chapter of the International Association of Peacekeeping Training Centres (IAPTC). Among others, the Association aims to provide a forum in which representatives from its members could discuss issues pertaining to their work - peace support training, explore areas of

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Source: Henry L. Stimson Center

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