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The End of Canadian Peacekeeping
In 1956, Canada invented the UN’s first peacekeeping force. After the Israeli, British and French militaries descended on Egypt during the Suez Crisis, the United Nations faced a conundrum: it could call for peace, but it had few tools to implement and enforce it. Lester B. Pearson, then Canada’s secretary of state for external affairs, proposed something new.
Estado de Cosas Inconstitucional
La Paz / 16 de septiembre de 2024 / 09:43 La situación en la que la Constitución Política del Estado (CPE) no es cumplida, y en consecuencia se registran vulneraciones de derechos y procesos de desinstitucionalización, que no son solo responsabilidad de algunas autoridades sino de una serie de situaciones estructurales de un gobierno en ejercicio, ha sido denominada por la doctrina constitucional como Estado de Cosas Inconstitucional.
Ucrania y la paz
/ 16 de septiembre de 2024 / 09:38 Después de más de dos años de muerte y destrucción, ninguno de los bandos de la guerra en Ucrania parece estar cerca de la victoria: Rusia no logrará su conquista imperial de Ucrania, y Ucrania seguramente no podrá recuperar el control de todo el territorio ocupado por Rusia. Tarde o temprano, ambas partes tendrán que acordar un alto el fuego y llegar a un acuerdo de paz. Se trata de una perspectiva bienvenida.
Rwanda’s genocide could have been prevented - 3 things the international community should have done: expert
10 April 2024 - 21:15 Just R20 for the first month. Support independent journalism by subscribing to our digital news package. Then UN secretary-general Boutros Boutros-Ghali talks to survivors of the massacre at Nyarubuye on July 14 1995, during a brief visit to the church in which hundreds of Tutsis were massacred by Hutu militias in 1994. Boutros-Ghali told them that he shared their grief and that the guilty would be punished.
Rwanda’s genocide could have been prevented - 3 things the international community should have done: expert
10 April 2024 - 21:15 Just R20 for the first month. Support independent journalism by subscribing to our digital news package. Then UN secretary-general Boutros Boutros-Ghali talks to survivors of the massacre at Nyarubuye on July 14 1995, during a brief visit to the church in which hundreds of Tutsis were massacred by Hutu militias in 1994. Boutros-Ghali told them that he shared their grief and that the guilty would be punished.
Rwanda’s genocide could have been prevented: 3 things the international community should have done - expert
By Walter Dorn, Professor of Defence Studies, Royal Military College of Canada As the world marks the 30th anniversary of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi ethnic group in Rwanda, it is important to understand what the international community could have done to prevent it. In one hundred days an estimated 600,000 to 800,000 Rwandans were killed. The Tutsi were targeted primarily due to… Read complete article © The Conversation -
Rwanda’s genocide could have been prevented: 3 things the international community should have done - expert
In one hundred days an estimated 600,000 to 800,000 Rwandans were killed. The Tutsi were targeted primarily due to long-standing ethnic tensions between the Tutsi minority and the majority Hutu population. Tutsi sympathisers and moderate Hutus were also targeted. Could the international community have helped to prevent this genocide?
What happened to Trudeau’s peacekeeping promise?
The agreement Canada signed with the United Nations last week to provide a C-130 transport aircraft for UN peace operations is a step forward. But as the Trudeau government nears the end of its term, it is fair to ask if it has kept its previous election promises to re-engage in UN peacekeeping. Upon taking office, Prime Minister Trudeau gave important instructions to his defence and foreign ministers to make Canadian personnel and specialized military capabilities available to the UN.
UN peacekeeping: Canada’s back? When? How?
New opportunities should be explored to better equip peacekeeping personnel with key enablers, but will the Liberal government really seize the day? In the foreign policy debate of the 2015 election campaign, Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau declared emphatically that peacekeeping “is something that a Canadian prime minister [Lester B.
Canada dithers on its peacekeeping pledges - and loses credibility
On the night of his federal election victory in October 2015, Justin Trudeau proudly declared that “Canada is back” on the international stage. A signature activity of his government was to “renew Canada’s commitment to United Nations peace operations,” as the new prime minister stated in the mandate letter to his defence minister a few weeks later.
Peacekeeping in Central African Republic a smart, but not risk-free, choice - The Hill Times
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