Subjects explored related to the conduct of violence include: the use of child soldiers, gender-based violence, and attacks on civilian populations, while those related to ending conflicts and preventing new one from arising include, but are not limited to, peacekeeping elections, decentralization and partition.
"It is limited to the peacekeeping and humanitarian tasks that are set out.
A20 Limits to Afghan Peacekeeping A State Department report on Afghanistan raises questions about expanding an international peacekeeping force beyond Kabul, suggesting it will be mainly up to Afghanistan to secure its outlying areas.
The hunt -- which NATO commanders eager to limit the scope of peacekeeping and the risk to their troops were determined to avoid when they were first deployed here in December 1995 -- is for a man who has been stripped of his political power, most of his personal security and his control of black-market enterprises that netted him millions of dollars.
Twenty-nine countries authorized troops to pursue a highly ambitious mandate one that went far beyond the limits of traditional neutral peacekeeping missions.
Ban Ki-moon, the new secretary general, asked President Bush and members of Congress during a two-day trip to Washington to lift a cap on spending for peacekeeping that limits the United States' contribution to 25percentt of the total cost, which he said produced an annual shortfall of $200 million.
"Most importantly," DPKO wrote, "United Nation's peacekeeping is limited in its ability to address significant violence against civilians, even violence amounting to genocide, where it lacks a political framework and the strategic consent of the host nation and/or the main parties to the conflict".
"Most importantly," the memo said, "United Nation's peacekeeping is limited in its ability to address significant violence against civilians, even violence amounting to genocide, where it lacks a political framework and the strategic consent of the host nation and/or the main parties to the conflict".
He is right that too many of its members limit themselves to "humanitarian, development, peacekeeping and talking tasks," and too few are available for the combat missions the alliance as a whole has agreed to assume.
The next move on Sierra Leone will be the expansion of the peacekeeping force, now limited to 13,000 troops.
