Tag: UN
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The Trouble with Titles: On Perspective and Opinion
My op-ed was not intended —in a meager 800 words— to clearly render the entire landscape of UN peacekeeping. The goal was to illustrate how responsibility —and the empty rhetoric that follows its invocation— demands accounting.
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Prisoners of Peace
Today, peacekeepers are more apt to serve in regions where there is “no peace to keep”; where the potential belligerents are non-state actors (rebels, extremist groups, etc…) to whom the rules of international law —and the logic of deterrence— matter little; and where Western (or “developed”) countries are loathe to donate their own troops.
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Continued Erosion: The Central African Republic
Others are quick to note that all parties have avowed violence, and that using the genocide label (for political purposes or otherwise) isn’t as important as preventing it all together.
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Broken CAR: The slow erosion of a state
Things are getting worse. That’s the message on CAR in a piece deftly reported by Tristan McConnell for GlobalPost.
Adam McCauley 