Report of the panel on united nations peace operations brahimi. The panel on united nations peace operations, chaired by lakhdar brahimi, reported to the u. On november 2000, the security council welcomed the report of the panel on united nations peace operations brahimi report and unanimously adopted a. Studying the brahimi report the author highlights the panels positive recommendations and points out to certain shortcomings. The brahimi report 2000 the brahimi report officially called the report of the panel on united nations peace operations4 was written in 2000 by a commission of highlevel independent experts, ledby senior algerian diplomat lakhdar brahimi. Our fourteen peacekeeping operations around the world today illustrate the wide range of mechanisms, strategies and resources that the united nations marshals in support of peace and security. Report of the panel on united nations peace operations executive summary the united nations was founded, in the words of its charter, in order to save succeeding. The report mentions that there is no comprehensive staffing strategy to ensure. He was minister of foreign affairs of algeria from 1991 to 1993 he is also a member of the elders, a. The brahimi report is not an achievement in itself as peacekeeping still. The article deals with the issue of importance of the brahimi report for reform of the united nations peace operations. The report mentions that there is no comprehensive staffing strategy to ensure the right mix of civilian personnel in any operation. On november 2000, the security council welcomed the report of the panel on united nations peace operations brahimi report and unanimously adopted a wideranging resolution containing. The report of the panel on united nations peace operations 2000 is commonly called the brahimi report, named for the chairman of the commission that produced it, lakhdar brahimi.
Mandates and the legal basis for peacekeeping united. Numerous and frequentlyupdated resource results are available from this search. The report of the panel on united nations peace operations 2000 is commonly called the brahimi report. A trilemma is a situation in which an actor pursues three principal goals but for logical and practical reasons only two of them can be achieved simultaneously. White 1 introduction in concluding an analysis of the uns inaction in the face of the atrocities commit ted in rwanda in 1994 and the former yugoslavia, in particular the nadir reached at srebrenica in july 1995, geoffrey robertson grimly.
Chapter 3 challenges facing the international community. Oclcs webjunction has pulled together information and resources to assist library staff as they consider how to handle. If you have reached this site from a web link, through your internet options, adjust your privacy settings to allow cookies or. Meeting this challenge is the most important function of the organization, and to a very significant degree it is the yardstick with which the organization is judged by the peoples it exists to serve. Brahimi report brahimi report executive summary the. The purpose of this report is to analyze options for organizational restructuring in the uns peace and security pillar. Panel on united nations peace operations known as the brahimi report. Chinahardly a legitimate representative of the global south as the worlds second largest economy and a permanent member of the security councilinflates the. In recent years the limits of robustness have been stretched by, for example, the force intervention brigade in eastern democratic republic of the congo and in stabilization missions in mali. The brahimi reports recommendations offer a unique chance to reverse this. The recommendations of what was soon known as the brahimi report on issues such as the need for a robust posture to protect civilians and the emphasis on peacebuilding and ruleoflaw objectives framed the way peace operations were to be established in the early years of the 21st century. Report of the panel on united nations peace operations which was published on 21 august 2000.
Their tasks differ from situation to situation, depending on the nature of the conflict and the specific challenges it presents. The recommendations of what was soon known as the brahimi report on issues such as the need for a robust posture to protect civilians and the emphasis on peace. There are talents within the united nations system that must be tapped, gaps to be filled through external recruitment and a range of other options that fall in between, such as the use of united nations volunteers, subcontracted personnel. This sense was based on a history of past studies, conferences, findings and recommendations concerning peace operations in africa that have made little headway in terms of followup and implementation. Nations peacekeeping forces should not be asked to undertake and many places they should not go. The report also underlined consent by the warring parties, a clear. A55305s2000809, august 17, 2000, also known as the brahimi report. Report of the panel on united nations peacekeeping wikipedia. United nations united nations peacekeeping, peacemaking, and peace building. This article focuses on two recommendations of the brahimi report that. These preliminary points suggest that the report addresses only one dimension of the uns peacekeeping trilemma. The united nations approach to peacebuilding1 29 october 2015 the united nations has become a central actor in international efforts to resolve armed conflicts and to try to ensure that postconflict peace is sustained. International armed forces were first used in 1948 to observe ceasefires in kashmir and palestine. The fact that this report emphasises the primacy of the political in terms of ending conflict on our continent, and therefore africas politics of peace.
The challenges of peacekeeping in the 21st century background note prepared by the united nations department of peacekeeping operations. United nations peacekeeping, peacemaking, and peace building. The resulting brahimi report formally the report of the panel on united nations peace operations, issued in 2000, outlined the need for strengthening the uns capacity to undertake a wide variety of missions. This is the same phrase that a senior official used to describe the brahimi report i read more. Building on brahimi peacekeeping in an era of strategic. African politics, african peace preface by thabo mbeki and lakhdar brahimi report submitted to the african union by the world peace foundation. Commentary on the report of the panel on united nations peace operations the brahimi report nigel d. In 2000, the brahimi report called on the leaders of.
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